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With the current conflict in Iran going, I thought to myself. "How about I learn some more about Iran", other than a book on the Iran-Contra Affair years ago. It was a good book, and shows what the methodology of the Iranian government, and how it came to be, up until I believe 2024, before Trump's second term. Overall it's a slow read, but informative. I skipped the nuclear deal stuff because well... I think I heard enough about it, and felt that while it's good to learn som

Chicken hawks and Patriots exist among us. What is interesting about “chickenhawks” is a rare sort of politician who never served, could have served, decided not to serve. Then they have the nerve to parrot war talking points, to the degree of some politicians, like Trump, to claim that they’re “more military than the military.” Which is surprising since the only exit strategy for Trump was to dodge the draft five times. That’s not right, and so do other “chickenhawks” like S

So here we are, still at war. What is the strategy? I don’t know, and neither does our president, who started this war, to do… what? On one hand, as much as I dislike Trump and his political movement, he did get Iran back for all those deaths in Iraq during his first term. I understand Iran isn’t the best country in the world, but overall, I feel that you have to wonder what the fuck is going on with his mind. I don’t know what made him think (probably the Epstein Files were

It's David Drake, and those who know, know. This is a compilation of his selected stories from Hammer's Slammers and another storyline that I'm not familiar with. Anyway, the book has a reference to his story of the Bolo super tank series, and probably the least liked of them, along with a couple others that I didn't read and like. As a military veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Afterword is perhaps the best that I've read so far by him. He acknowledges the wars