Posted on 02/18/2014 8:01:37 PM PST by LibWhacker
“Eleven crazies using TWO commercial planes f##cked this country up right good. That was no army that struck enough fear in the peasantry that they were willing to surrender their rights as sovereign citizens—it was crazies striking at society’s nerve centers.”
This is not a new idea - the idea of “decapitating” a country has been around for a while. Among the many visionary things from the mind of Arthur C. Clarke was in his book, “Childhood’s End”, where he asks to the effect, what is the more powerful weapon - An atomic bomb, or a miniaturized robot bug that flies in the ear of the enemy leader, and keeps him up day and night driving him crazy. That wild idea is darned near achievable now.
“If naming things after Indians is so bad, what are we doing naming our Helicopters after them?”
Because Indians are part of “we” and “our” too.
Well the Washington Redskins are “we” and “our” and of course the often forgotten “us”.
Mean like did some Indian Chief sign off and say okay, you can call that helicopter the Apache?
Why haven't we used them?
Or did we only now get around to building them? Why not sooner?
Quite the stack of rear leaves there. I wonder if she does the hula in recoil.
Looks like the crew could be whacked by a goatherd with a PKM.
4th Generation Warfare.
This is one in Afghanistan. We use them mostly for reconnaissance and special operations. Massed, in cavalry tactics, I don't think we've tried yet possibly due to terrain.
And if we don’t decentralize our nerve centers they will be able to deliver more blows like that one.
The power grid. The California aqueduct. Freeway overpasses. So many easy targets.
Classic!
I wonder how the price and the mileage compare to a Land Cruiser’s...
Fetcha le moo!
LOL - “Fetchez La Vache”
Soviet troops vs Taliban pickup trucks in late 1970s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnHgC4WSRyU
Any questions?
Gotta be brutal on the mileage. I'd love to have one myself just to...uh...just for trips to church on Sunday. Yeah, that's the ticket. No, I don't know what that fixed weapons mount could be for. Officer.
As I understand it the Apache don’t call themselves Apache, usually.that’s the name their neighbors gave them.
Only extreme crazies screw around with bioweapons.
Unfortunately, there are extreme crazies out there.
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