April 07, 2003

DON'T OVERDO IT NOW The

DON'T OVERDO IT NOW

The Reuters report of the find of 20 artillery rockets with mustard-agent warheads, will be unsurprising to the Allies, if true... that's more or less exactly what everyone always assumed they were hiding. But please don't call them "medium-range missiles." Al-Hussein Scuds were medium range missiles. The BM-21 is a Katyusha-style unguided rocket with a range of about 20 km. And anyone who calls members of the 101st Airborne "Marines" should probably be taken skeptically, anyway.

UPDATE: On the other hand, this discovery of British exploding pens... hey, now THAT's a potential war crime. Bastards...

Posted by BruceR at 01:04 PM

THE END OF THE WAR,

THE END OF THE WAR, THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR

Been working too much this weekend for updates, and changing the maps would be superfluous... there is obviously no organized resistance on the Iraqi side any more. The war to liberate Iraq is more or less over. Now comes the war to keep it free, and that is likely going to go on a long time, and be almost entirely unsuitable for mapping.

One classical allusion, that I want to make before V.D. Hanson or somebody else steals it... from a military point of view, this was the most Alexandrine war in centuries, if not millenia. The Macedonian would be proud. I'll explain later.

Posted by BruceR at 09:55 AM