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FFG - Dust
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http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/dust
sabersedge.com
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http://www.sabersedge.com/2.htm
Russia Threatens Retaliation After Georgia Says It Fired on Planes - NYTimes.com
Worrisome signs of escalating conflict over South Ossetia after reports that Georgian bombing raids caused Russian casualties; Russian bombers allegedly have retaliated with attacks on Ge...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/world/europe/09georgia.html?em
Continuing coverage of the Georgian situation from Eurasianet
Some reportage on the bombing of Tbilisi airport. I can't foresee this ending well. Some reportage on the bombing of Tbilisi airport. I can't foresee this ending well. From the story: "In...
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http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav081008.shtml
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms
Published in the Saturday Evening Post on four consecutive weeks in February and March, 1943.
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http://www.bilderberg.org/fight4.jpg
Warrior Heroes
A hybrid game published by the folks at Two Hour Wargames. This appears to be a fantasy based skirmish game where players take on the role of a specific character and recruit the rest of...
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http://www.angelfire.com/az3/twohourwargames/WarriorHeroes.htm
"They Have Names": memorials for soldiers
Extensive profiles and photos of individual soldiers.
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http://theyhavenames.com
Dan Froomkin - General Accuses WH of War Crimes - washingtonpost.com
Notes on retired Gen. Taguba's preface to the recent Physicians for Human Rights report on detainee torture.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/18/BL2008061801546.html
Thomas Hart Benton - Painting to Sound the Alarm in the Wake of Pearl Harbor
Clipping this mainly for the great slideshow of hard-to-find Benton images from the months following the US entry into WWII.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/08/arts/design/08BENT.html?ex=1386219600&en=a1781d31f287fac8&...
Bush Prepares for Possible GPS Shutdown
President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational tec...
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/POSITIONING_SATELLITES?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLA...
Missile Defence and Space Weapons
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http://www3.sympatico.ca/taylormcgreal/spaceweapons.html
BBC NEWS | UK | Iraq dates 'planned in advance'
Top secret plans for attacking Iraq were drawn up five months before the war started, a court martial has heard.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3957791.stm
Plundering the cradle of civilisation - Opinion - www.theage.com.au
In the midst of the disasters of Iraq under occupation, the condition of its cultural heritage may seem a trivial matter. But, as a historian of antiquity, I am painfully aware that there...
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/12/1094927432173.html
The Daily Star - Arts & Culture - The massacre of Mesopotamian archaeology
If the looters are just simple peasants, the dealers in stolen antiquities are far more sophisticated. Professional smugglers, they are connected to the shadowy ring that is the internati...
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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=8536
Maps of War
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http://mapsofwar.com
Grand Strategy (Login)
ajax, game, gis, risk, war saved by: millette more details ...
http://denizengames.com/grandstrategy
The Worst Addiction of Them All
addiction, forcomar, military, vonnegut, war saved by: millette more details ...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/19831231/vonnegut
Anime OP X: Library War
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http://www.animeopenings.com/search/label/Library%20War?max-results=5
More innocent victims in the "war on drugs"
The linked article has a petition you can sign to limit paramilitary police raids on American soil. Of course, if you think like I do, you're probably already thinking the only way this ...
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http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2008/jan/10/alert_a_swat_team_shot_a_mother_
al-Qaeda: made up by the CIA?
Visit the linked post for links to the BBC documentary in question.
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http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/5113
The original Mother's Day (hint: it's not from Hallmark)
Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic, was one of the early advocates for a national Mother's Day holiday, as an antiwar organizing effort. Here's her "Mother's Day P...
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http://womenshistory.about.com/od/howejwriting/a/mothers_day.htm
Suicide may kill more U.S. soldiers than combat
Not sure what to make of this news, or how reliable these numbers really are, but it's fairly shocking. It also says that one in ten U.S. veterans will suffer from untreated PTSD.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=a2_71Klo2vig&refer=home
MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Archives
Warner Brothers Home Video are releasing a disc called "Total HD," which is actually encoded in both formats, while LG is promoting a dual HDTV player that it unveiled at the CES show las...
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http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/2007/01/two_new_products_to_help_bridg.php
Multiman Publishing
Publishers of war games, most famous for Advanced Squad LEader
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http://www.multimanpublishing.com
Columbia Games: Wargames, Dixie, and Harn Roleplaying
Publishers of some of the best block based wargames. They also publish the rpg Harn.
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http://www.columbiagames.com
Dust
A very Risk like board game ith some interesting turn based mechanics.The game has a puzzle cut board and a pretty good number of plastic miniatures.
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http://fantasyflightgames.com/dust/index.html
Meeples & Miniatures
Welcome to the 'Meeples & Miniatures' website. This is the home of the 'Meeples & Miniatures' Podcast, which is a podcast about Miniature Wargaming and Strategy Boardgames. A new episode ...
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neil.shuck
Compass Games - Silent War Home Page
Silent War is a solitaire simulation of the United States' submarine war against Imperial Japan during the Second World War. The scenarios allow players to recreate various stages of the ...
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http://www.compassgames.com/silent_war.htm
Compass Games Home Page
A new publisher of traditional board based war games.
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http://www.compassgames.com
Axis & Allies Miniatures
Home page for the A&A miniatures game
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http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/prod/aam
Raiden Miniatures Homepage
Producers and sellers of some nice 1/285th scale miniature aircraft for war games. They also have a set of rules for use with games that are free to download.
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http://www.raidenminiatures.co.uk/index.html
The Bulge: FAB #1
The Bulge: FAB #1 Uses the Fast Action Battles system, a new system from GMT Games
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http://www.gmtgames.com/p-118-the-bulge-fab-1.aspx
WW II Military Film Strips
"These are WWII vintage US Navy Film strips that I found and took pictures of." Provides an interesting view into the skills taught to pilots during World War II and the prejudices of the...
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http://www.ir0ngruve.com/fs_gallery
Thoughts on Nangarhar from an ex-Marine
An interesting and nuanced perspective, combining an appreciation for the culture of the Marines (and its flaws), an awareness of the high strategic stakes involved in any civilian killin...
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/04/26/nangarhar
Thoughts on Nangarhar from an ex-Marine [6]
An interesting and nuanced perspective, combining an appreciation for the culture of the Marines (and its flaws), an awareness of the high strategic stakes involved in any civilian killin...
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/04/26/nangarhar/index1.html
Daniel Lazare reviews two new books on religious toleration
I basically am clipping this because I read it and want to remember it, but I think Lazare gets it completely wrong. Not only is his attitude towards religion in general misguided, he doe...
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http://www.alternet.org/stories/78299
Thomas Merton on "sanity" and Christianity in the modern world
Merton's thoughts on the finding that Eichmann was legally "sane": "sanity" is overrated in a world where mass destruction is considered an acceptable way of waging war. Given the modern ...
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http://www.tomjoad.org/eichmann.htm
GMT Games - Combat Commander: Europe
Combat Commander: Europe is a card-driven board game covering tactical infantry combat in the European Theater of World War II. One player takes the role of Germany while another player c...
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http://www.gmtgames.com/p-30-combat-commander-europe.aspx
GMT Games
Designer and publisher of some very nice war games.
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http://www.gmtgames.com
Project Gutenberg Edition of The Wars of the Jews, or The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem
An electronic, downloadable edition of The Wars of the Jews, or The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus
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http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2850
Nazi Robot Attack
Mechs in the II World War
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http://www.e-motionaldesign.com/blog/nazi-robot-attack/http://www.e-motionaldesign.com/blog/...
Americas North Shore Journal
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http://northshorejournal.org/index.php/2007/06/the-truth-about-american-deaths-in-iraq
Letter from an Iraqi Christian: Does Bush "pray to Satan"?
I couldn't get this to clip so it was pop-able. Here's a short excerpt: [quote]I just remembered my nephew's daughter who we met in Jordan. She said, "Auntie if I now see dead people in t...
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http://clipmarks.com/content/ABDF119E-8053-42E4-8DB5-7E74D3E5B178