WW I: German Siege Guns Terrify Liège
“By late afternoon of August 12, one of the German army’s [enormous 420 mm siege guns, 24 feet long, weighing …
Tag Archives: Weapons
Ethics for Wars to Come
Samuel G Freedman in his always interesting once-a-week column On Region in the New York Times, features Robert H Latiff, …
Laotian Women Dig for US ‘Bombies’ — Still
A friend who has been following my recent trip to Southeast Asia, including a report from the COPE facility in Vientiane, Laos …
Avatar: The Movie
Avatar, the technically amazing, richly conceived and executed movie, will not be to everyone’s taste. It is tasty enough, however, …
Waiting for the Bullets to Fly
Something is completely fubared here. Lucinda Roy, a long-time member of the English faculty at Virginia Tech had Cho as …
Massacre
The killing of 33 at Virginia Tech shuts down the mind for a moment or two. No, they must have …
Nuclear War: Avoided, Barely
Idly following links from one article to another I came across this 2002 article about the 1962 October Cuban Missle …
Scoring the War
Israeli Civilians 73 Lebanese Civilians 720 Palestinian Civilians 85 Gone. All gone. Who is winning? Who is keeping score here? …