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Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Bill's Nibbles -- 2007.02.21
Contributed by Bill Faith

Some Bill's Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I'm sending you to the original post. I may rearrange the order of the items within this post as I add new things that I think belong "above the fold:"   

  • Remembering Iwo Jima: Sixty-two Years Later 
    Cpl M.

    The darkness of the Pacific on 19 February 1945 was broken just before 0200 hours as naval gunfire started beating the island of Iwo Jima. The gunfire lasted for an hour and left the island smoking. Bombers then picked up where the gunfire left off. The bombers dropped their ordnance on the already battered island and then returned to their base ships. Naval gunfire would once again pick up again after the planes where clear of the airspace. The bombardment of Iwo Jima lasted for nearly six and a half hours before the Marines were sent in to secure the island. Forty-five days later, the Marines declared Iwo Jima secure. ...

  • “What if they threw a war and nobody came?” 
    Bruce Kesler

    It is widely recognized now that the U.S. should have committed far larger military forces to Iraq than it did, in order to quickly subdue the Sunni and Al Qaeda insurgencies and provide security for more speedy reconstruction. This may be excused by the equally widely recognized failure to expect such an externally and internally well-financed and led insurgency.

    What has been less focused upon, until lately, is the failure to build and commit the necessary pacification and reconstruction civilian forces necessary to success even at the lower expected insurgency level. ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on February 21, 2007 at 12:18 AM in Bill Faith | Permalink

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