Iranians Training Taliban to Shoot American Soldiers
“Our religions and our histories are different," a Taliban commander tells The Times re: Iran. "But our target is the same — we both want to kill Americans." To that...
U.S. Has Pissed Away $6 Billion on Afghan National Police
Over the last eight years, the United States has "invested" $6 billion in arming and training the Afghan National Police. To no appreciable effect. ProPublica reports that our government estimates that "fewer than 12...
U.S. Army Drops Bayonet Practice
According to the AP , the U.S. Army has dropped bayonet practice from basic training. "Adapting to battlefield experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army is revamping its basic training regimen for the first...
Real Reason for Marines’ Underpowered Rounds Revealed
According to The Marine Times, the head of Joint Forces Command was trying to get his troops a better rifle with more powerful bullets well before the Corps deployed in Afghanistan. Pre-theater, General James...
AA-12 Developer: “The U.S. Military is Brain Dead”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnrizaO-X00
TTAG has reported on the U.S. military's ongoing inability to provide its troops with winning weapons in The War on Terror. Needless to say, our research into this sad not to say unconscionable state...
Those Who Do Not Read The History of the Gatling Gun . . .
Today's post about the U.S. military's strategy in Afghanistan, and their sloth in regards to supplying our troops with adequate weaponry, got me thinking. And surfing. Under Project Gutenberg (not a Police Academy remake...
Army Considering New Rifles and Bullets for Afghanistan. Still.
TTAG writer Brad Kozak and I were shooting the breeze (Brad 1, Breeze 0) when we got to talking about the war in Afghanistan. "It looks like we won the war and lost the...
Live Aid Money Went to Guns and Terrorists
Who'd a thunk it, eh? All those well-meaning celebrities raising money for starving Africans and millions went to buying guns. Reporting on BBC Radio 4's program "From Our Own Correspondent," Martin Plaut reveals that...
Marines Mount Mini-Gun on MV-22 Tilt Rotor Transports
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP7jBmp-7PU
After a decade of dithering, the U.S. Marines are equipping two tilt-rotor transport aircraft bound for Afghanistan with the GAU-2B machine-gun. Strategypage.com reports that the Marines will retro-fit the guns to the rest of...
Gun Bribes Highlight Afghan Corruption
And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn. I'm going to Afghanistan. A country whose rigged elections and endemic corruption was the focus of...
War on Terror Contractors Face PTSD
In 1984, U.S. defense contractor KBR hired Wade Dill for pest control and hazardous waste disposal duty in Iraq. Speaking to ProPublica, Dill's wife Barb admitted that the ex-Marine was motivated by money. "He...