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  1. Born Hunter
    All he really said there was that he believes in being educated on it and remaining open minded. Mate I’m not exactly a big fan of these modern liberalism but I’m not seeing anything particularly outrageous in that exert and tbh I don’t care for this sort of stuff. I honestly feel it’s just partisan tit for tat nonsense.
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    I think that I’ve never heard of general milley in my life, lol. And I strongly suspect what’s being reported is in reality meaningless but is being delivered by those with strong bias and agenda. Much bigger news is the $50B tech sharing deal between UK/US/AUS to build the ozzies a fleet of 12 nuclear powered attack submarines amongst other stuff. This is not only a serious strategic move to counter China in the east but a bit of a f**k you to France who had a deal with the ozzies to build them diesel electric boats.
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    Turning Point - 9/11 and the war on terror on Netflix Really worthwhile series on 911 and the events that followed.
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    Believe it or not, under the original definition Ireland was in the ‘third world’. NATO being the first world, Warsaw Pact and co being second, impartials being third. And that’s all I have to add to this thread. Ha
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    The bitter after taste of a country on furlough…
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    Like cats with live, the men of Wales are born with spare fingers. All 11 of them. Its called evolution!
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    I think that's a fundamental and false assumption. No doubt there will be a pile of SME's come to the fore who predicted this and we'll all be wondering why no one listened to them. But having worked in a few different tech industries and as someone who follows developments in other tech industries, as much as I'm fascinated by technology developments I'm also shocked by the gaping holes that joe bloggs would have just taken as granted.
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    I think the situation destabilised much quicker than they expected. The ANA collapsed so quickly. I think the time allocated is still sufficient to get staff and soldiers out but finding all the Afghan interpreters etc probably isn’t considered essential in that equation.
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    Apaches doing crowd control.... Not gonna lie, I bet there's a bit of a buzz being out there right now, amongst the chaos, seeing history unfold.
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    Oh no, where will the investment bankers of the capital buy cheap houses now…..
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    Just a quick point of caution to everyone really… talking about the effects of radiation, like it’s all the same, is like talking about the lethality of guns like they’re all the same. And I’d include cap guns in that analogy! Some electromagnetic radiation in high enough doses can be harmful. In lower doses it won’t be and may even be beneficial. Certain types are essential to our lives. And of course from a technology point of view it’s incredibly useful.
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    I think the time for that was 10-15 years ago mate. I chose to walk a different path.
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    Looking at the Orbat, signals squadron were based at divisional HQ so yeah that probably explains why the village is so strongly linked to the signals.
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    Yep. One side of my family are from there.
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    Just read this…
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    Cheers mate, you know what I’m like, ha. Soon as the vicar let us move, everyone was taking photos of my cousin and family at the sink thing (font?). I slipped off for a tour I expect I got some curious looks. Churches and cathedrals etc are fascinating places anyway but this one was a bit special.
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    I was at a family baptism earlier and noticed the brigade insignia of the 16 air assault brigade on the wall of the church. Then looking around more, the church was like a memorial to the parachute regiment and more specifically the parachute signals. The stained glass, the carpet between the aisle, flags, engraved tablets! Honestly it was just really pleasing, if that’s the word, to see this church, tucked away in rural Lincolnshire, honour the historic connection of the village to this unit. Stiffmeister particularly might appreciate this but here’s a few pics I managed to gather and th
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    His lad, Uday, was even more evil IMO. God forbid he ever inherited the throne…
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    No. I think we may see air strikes taking out the kit but no I think how the ANA folded means trying again is a non starter. Long term I think it’ll just be another region with low tempo SF ops ongoing but nothing big. But who knows…
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    Fair mate and an important point imo. I remember when ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh first came on the scene and their MO was considered to be as you describe, brutal ideology but focussed on establishing territory, not attacking the West. For that reason they were considered less of a threat to our homelands than Al-Qaeda. The threat they posed was stability to the region whereas Al-Qaeda, though severely degraded, were still totally focussed on hurting the West to make our involvement in their backyard too painful. But that changed with the onslaught of IS inspired lone wolf terrorist attacks.
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    I think I'm the only one who's mentioned ISIS. Is that aimed at me? If so, yes I'm well aware there are many different factions and ideologies that are Islamic in nature.
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    That's essentially how we feed radicalisation right? That fact isn't lost on me. But personally I think the extremist terrorist groups need to be distinguished from the recognised regimes in power of the countries where they reside. IMO Western forces are very adept at counter terrorism. Where we have continually failed or seen questionable success is with regime change. Which is why I think the containment strategy suggested has better potential than regime change. But I really don't think there are any right answers and trialling anything costs blood and treasure. It's an easy and conve
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    I appreciate the respect and you're right I am interested in this stuff. But again, it's not born of experience. We're just sharing opinions. I think we disagree on the nature of muslims and the Islamic world but right there at the bottom in boId I agree with. If these places are going to change for the better they have to do it in their own time and by their own initiative, we can't force it and need to respect that fact I think.
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    We're all just sharing opinions mate. I've never exactly planned a war, so I'm not speaking from any kind of experience. Oh for sure, special operations which are not discussed in Parliament or publicly are ongoing forever and always, granted. I think what's being suggested though is something that does involves sufficient combat mass of conventional forces to not go unnoticed. Something like intelligence that there is once again a large Al-Qaeda camp somewhere in the mountains which rather than a full invasion is responded to by a combined air strike, airborne assault and special forc
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