magicjuan
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From the 'man' who bought the labour party...
Current Affairs Israel is an apartheid state
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From the 'man' who bought the labour party...
Wat Tyler
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Spadge Vernacular
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Bluerover
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Loving our win over the pensioners but meanwhile....
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Ireland joins call to EU leaders over Gaza ceasefire
Ireland has joined Spain, Belgium and Malta in urging EU leaders meeting in Brussels later this week to call for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza that could lead to an end in hostilities.
Ha. A just world eh? Ask the Kurds about that, also he’s slagging off the US yet he’s begging them to send him updated fighter aircraft.
He’s so full of it
mightymoyes
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More nazi behaviour
NilSatisOptimum
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Stopped watching Al Jazeera coverage the other week they were interviewing a survivor in Gaza, visibly upset and angry with Qatar and Turkey in making it worse 'bringing terror raining down from their skies'. The interviewer was aghast and promptly ended the interview with 'thats enough of that'.
We dont investigate our own crimes
It's a very bleak point and done so for no mirth, but in this case the people they've killed were actually armed for a change.
Martin Alvito
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Because it's normal, in asymmetric, modern ground warfare. Something like a quarter of US casualties during Desert Storm were due to friendly fire incidents. In Vietnam it was closer to 10%, and the reason for the increase is technology.
A battlefield is chaos. Suppose someone shoots at you. The bullets don't have tracers on them. You know someone's shooting, but not necessarily from where. It's easy for your own to fire at you if there's a miscommunication somewhere along the line about where the enemy is located.
You call for support fire. Modern munitions are vastly more lethal than those from fifty or a hundred years ago. They're more accurate, and we can stuff more punch onto the same category of weapons platform, be it artillery, rockets, bombs or precision-guided missiles from the air. If someone screwed up, and you misidentified your own as the enemy, calling that strike in is much more likely to kill them than a more inaccurate artillery strike, strafing run or bombing run.
re desert storm, wasn't it an error in design for the anti missile tech that was responsible for a % of deaths and injuries? I recall something about a system that could knock missiles/rockets down but it wasn't always negating the payloads in the ordinance, so they were dropping at random so to speak.
Martin Alvito
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There were loads of problems. We had some navigational system issues that resulted in helicopters and aircraft being miles off-course, and hitting the wrong things. There were artillery strikes against our own, and a particularly ugly incident involving tank fire in a night scrap.
In practice, we investigate these things to find out why they happened, so as not to screw up again. If there's human error, it kills careers, but we don't lock people up for it. If not, it tends to kill an officer's career anyway. Continued advancement more or less requires an unblemished service record. If someone doesn't hit the time marks for advancement, the next time promotion slots open a year later they often get passed over again in favor of this year's star performers and well-connected officers (eg: children of flag officers), and the cycle repeats.
Investigations have a way of disrupting that process.
Billy Dean
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Germany is going mental
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