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T-72B3 mod. 2016 and T-90A, top view.

USS Abraham Lincoln conducting high speed turning drills

There had been scattered reports and allegations that this sort of thing was going on. This report will make it impossible to ignore, however. It reminds me of the widespread torture during the US occupation of Iraq. Using power tools for torture was so common that it was a go-to joke for the War Nerd. In a more general sense, I think it shows that the constituent groups of Iraq cannot rise above sectarian identity. If there's peace, it's because one group has conquered the others and has ejected them from the political sphere. In Saddam's time, the Sunni Arabs held supremacy (albeit in a secular, ostensibly nationalist state) and suppressed the Shia Arabs and Kurds. Eventually, the more numerous Shia Arabs will probably take control of Iraq, at least outside of Kurdish areas which will probably be de-facto autonomous. A democratic government there with full participation by all groups is doomed to bloody failure.

JH-7

J-10A getting some love before take off

HQ-12 being fired

Behold the Gavin longship!

DARPA picked the winner of the XS-1 contract (Boeing/Aerojet); http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-05-24

Remember that star a while back that was weirdly dimming and nobody could figure it out? It's doing that thing again;

ORSIS K-151 in .308 Win 4.6 kg overall length - 0.96m barrel - 0.508 10 round mag up to 700 meters effective range

The author of this dissertation might be a kindred spirit. War-Winner: A Re-Appraisal of the M4 "Sherman" Tank in World War II

All the media outlets believe he's doing a shit job, including FOX. Remember, FOX was aligned against the guy during the election, until they had to get on the train or be left behind. I'm gonna be honest and say that what the media thinks has absolutely no bearing on how I feel about something. The media - including FOX - is a bag of dicks. Now does that mean Trump is doing well? No idea! With the first non-political, non-military President in our history, how do you even begin to measure that, anyway?

So there was a Harvard Study of media coverage for Trump's first 100 days. Is it ironic that Fox has been the only 'fair and balanced' network?