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2008-04-01 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by tu3031 2008-04-01 15:48|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Oderint Dum Metuant, reads a patch for an Air Force program that mines spy satellite images for battlefield intelligence, according to Mr. Paglen, who identifies the saying as from Caligula, the first-century Roman emperor famed for his depravity. It translates Let them hate so long as they fear.

That's quite enough information for me.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-01 16:58|| 2008-04-01 16:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Not THOSE patches, no. Good times, hard work, and the freedom to act. And no damn 1348s either!

It's amazing what can happen when you give the right people resources and let them go. The risk is making sure that you don't have people who NEED constant supervision.

Posted by Zebulon Unomolet6509 2008-04-01 19:23|| 2008-04-01 19:23|| Front Page Top

#3 I like to think of it as, for every overt mission undertaken by US military units, there is a complementary mission conducted by a SOCOM element.

And this applies to Iraq and Afghanistan. In the rest of the WoT, SOCOM dominates.

Within SOCOM, two forces are in contention, intelligence gathering and operations. That is, collecting information then acting on it. They have to be kept in balance for obvious reasons.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-01 19:40|| 2008-04-01 19:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Oderint Dum Metuant - hmm... Fred where have I heard that before?

Posted by 3dc 2008-04-01 19:45|| 2008-04-01 19:45|| Front Page Top

#5 E.g. NAVY SEALS movie [Charlie Sheen] > "WE DON'T EXIST" + "WE AREN'T/WERE NEVER HERE".

We didn't, we won't, and we don't, ergo SSSSSSHHHHHHH WE DID, WE WILL, AND WE DO!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-01 19:52|| 2008-04-01 19:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Caligula, if you like going back to the classics.

Posted by lotp 2008-04-01 19:53|| 2008-04-01 19:53|| Front Page Top

#7 heh!

Posted by 3dc 2008-04-01 19:56|| 2008-04-01 19:56|| Front Page Top

#8 3dc, you must have run your cursor across the tab on you browser. :-P

Posted by tipover 2008-04-01 20:01|| 2008-04-01 20:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Oops! ---Your browser for the Rantburg Home

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