Saturday, 22 March, 2003Armchair military analysis 101The ground war in Iraq is proceeding apace; between CNN, BBC, et al. it looks like the al-Faw peninsula and Umm Qasr are, for all intents and purposes, under Coalition control, though there's resistance in and around Basra and Nasiriya. The bulk of the Iraqi 51st Mechanised Division has surrendered, and the lead elements of the US 3rd Infantry Division have crossed the Euphrates, bypassing Nasiriya, and are only now starting to encounter resistance—a mere 160 clicks (100 miles) south of Baghdad itself. Let's have a look at the units involved so far. posted 2249 Z-8 [more..] Thursday, 20 March, 2003And so it begins...So the war has started at last. There's not much I can say about it at this point that Iron Maiden didn't already say a decade ago in the song "Afraid To Shoot Strangers" (which was actually inspired by statements made by British troops regarding the previous Gulf War). posted 2320 Z-8 [more..] Monday, 17 March, 2003The Death of Rachel CorrieI ran across an article on the BBC News site this morning, "US peace activist killed in Gaza." I might have paid less attention, had it not been for the sentence: The woman was identified as Rachel Corrie, aged 23, from Olympia, Washington.Well, it's not every day someone from your town gets killed in the Gaza Strip, so I looked in the local paper, The Olympian. posted 0104 Z-8 [more..] |
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