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Posts Tagged war
In Ukraine New Weapons of War Are Creating New Types of Injuries
From Wall Street Journal:
These aren’t flesh wounds or simple broken legs. Patients are brought in with combinations of brain, face, chest and abdominal wounds. Many require amputations. I am on call almost 300 days a year for complex craniofacial/plastics trauma at three major trauma centers. We see everything. Fortunately we get only a few of the most severe facial mutilations—where someone loses his entire face and survives. In Ukraine, I saw 12. I saw golf-ball-size shrapnel and 3-inch pieces of protective Kevlar armor pulled from lungs and brains.
The chief of neurosurgery at Mechnikov shared with me the hospital’s experience with vertebral artery injuries. (These are two arteries in the spine that feed the brain.) Because of the violent force that causes such injuries, most patients die before reaching the hospital. The typical neurosurgeon will see two or three patients with such terrible injuries over the course of a career. The U.S. military, with incredible evacuation resources, treated 18 vertebral artery injuries during 20 years in Iraq. Mechnikov has treated 91 in two years.
Chinese Gunpowder Shortage
From Tactical S#*t News:
The Great Powder Shortage of 2024 Is Said To Be Imminent. Many importers & manufacturers’ are claiming that nitrocellulose, a core component of gunpowder that originates from the cotton plant in China, is facing a shortage.
According to industry insiders, allegedly the shortage is a direct result of China refusing to sell nitrocellulose to Western nations or Europe & Only supplying Russian Interests.
The Forgotten Boer War
From War on the Rocks:
The British Army suffered a bloody and bruising experience in the Boer War. The war erupted in South Africa in October 1899 when the Boer republics of Orange Free State and Transvaal, infuriated by years of British political pressure and military threats, launched a pre-emptive war to secure their independence. Most of the British press greeted this with jingoistic glee and some journalists confidently predicted that the war would be “over by Christmas.”
But the war confounded expectations. Much of this was down to the nature of the Boer military. Although the Boers lacked a standing army, they possessed an effective militia system that mustered white citizens into units based on their local district. These men had no formal training but came from a frontier culture that produced tough individuals, many of whom were skilled marksmen and experienced riders. Most Boers went to war with their own rifles and horses, and the government provided equipment and mounts if required. These rugged frontiersmen would prove hardy and highly mobile fighters. It is little surprise that Winston Churchill, a veteran of the war himself, would later choose to name Britain’s first special forces Commandos, taking the word from the Boer term for military units.
Rise In Armed Conflicts Proves Citizens Should Be Armed and Prepared
From The Truth About Guns:
A video from the last day of 2023 at the Task & Purpose YouTube channel gives a pretty good summary of the kinds of war our world saw in 2023. Not only does it show us the potential use Americans might have for the right to keep and bear arms in the United States, but also shows us how dangerous it can be for people who have had that right infringed.
Commerce Dept Questioned About Gun Export Pause
From Bearing Arms:
The agency hasn’t said if there were any specific concerns that led to the highly unusual move, which is ostensibly meant to “further assess current firearm export control review policies to determine whether any changes are warranted to advance U.S. national security and foreign policy interests” and “enable the Department to more effectively assess and mitigate risk of firearms being diverted to entities or activities that promote regional instability, violate human rights, or fuel criminal activities.”
People’s Politics Are Being Shattered By Reality
From Bearing Arms:
“To be honest with you, I hate guns,” Peter, 76, shouted over the sound of gunshots Saturday afternoon as his wife took aim at a target at Gun World in Deerfield Beach. “But it’s better us than someone else.”
The Jewish couple had arrived for their Intro to Handguns lesson with Florida Firearms Training about noon. Peter, who asked to keep his last name private for safety reasons, had shot a rifle decades ago; his wife had never shot a gun before. By the end of the day they would be returning home with one.
British Purchase New Anti Drone System For Rifles
From Guns.com:
Purchased specifically to fill a Counter (small) Unmanned Aircraft Systems, or C-sUAS, capability, for the British, the Ministry of Defense has contracted with Israel’s Smartshooter to deliver a small quantity of their advanced optics systems. The company’s SMASH 2000L, shown in images released by the MOD, is an add-on see-through optics with a lock and track system that can recognize a target and maintain a lock even if it or the user moves.
Marksmanship In Across Cultures
From Kulak:
The Taliban it seems are really bad shots. Of the 93 enemy sniper ops included in the Afghanistan data set 67 resulted in no Casualties at all, the insurgents or Taliban simply rode up on a motorcycle to some range, fired 1 or 2 shots that missed, and rode away. Of the remaining 26, 6 resulted in only enemy casualties, with the remaining 20 being something of a mess of friendly wounded and enemy casualties, in only one incident is a coalition fighter, a member of the 1st Royal Anglian, killed by sniper fire, and in two incidents are Friendly host nation forces killed, only one of which looks like a traditional sniper attack (the other is a messy assault that really stretches the definition).
Ukrainian Politician Wants To Expand Gun Rights
From The Washington Times:
Months before the Russian invasion, Mr. Zablotskyy took on his country’s civilian gun-control system that was inherited from the former Soviet Union when he introduced a bill to allow private ownership of firearms.
“I tried to convince parliament. I was the sponsor of the bill that allowed the ownership of private firearms within Ukraine. Unfortunately, that bill has failed. And, largely, of course, due to the Russian lobby,” he told The Washington Times. “Now we, of course, understand why. I think that now there’s overwhelming support for the right of Ukrainians to bear arms.”
Independence Is All Or Nothing
From National Review:
It is obvious that Russia’s attempt to dictate to Ukraine what alliances it may join and what kind of foreign relations it may pursue is a limit on Ukrainian sovereignty. But it is also a limit on American sovereignty, British sovereignty, German sovereignty, French sovereignty, and the sovereignty of every other NATO country. An alliance is a two-way relationship, and if Moscow has the power to foreclose it on one end, it has the power to foreclose it on the other end. We must not cede such power to Moscow.
The US Should Sell Weapons To Any Country For Defense
From The Federalist:
For the record, I have consistently warned against American interventions and nation-building for more than 30 years. I agree with John Quincy Adams that America “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”
Learning The Wrong Lesson. For Gun Haters, Gun Control Can Solve Anything.
From The Press Herald:
But how do we start a debate about global gun control to put pressure on someone like Putin to stop waging wars on innocent people?
….everyone everywhere should start talking about demilitarizing the world, or guns will undoubtedly kill many more millions in many more cities.
Gun control will not stop tyrants. What stops tyrants is a citizenry that is armed and trained in those arms. When every citizen is a possible combatant/insurgent that makes tyrants and despots think twice about controlling their own people or invading another people. To prevent more atrocities we need gun proliferation across the world. Everyone on this planet should know how to use a gun even if they don’t like them. Knowledge is power and knowing how to use a gun is even more powerful.
National Review: US Should Defend Taiwan
From National Review:
The fundamental reason is, counterintuitively, China’s awesome power, and the very real danger that this power, if allowed to expand too far, will pose to Americans’ prosperity and freedom. The United States should defend Taiwan because it is important to deny China hegemony over Asia, by far the world’s largest market area. If China could dominate Asia, as it has made increasingly clear it seeks to do, Beijing would determine the terms, tempo, and distribution of global economic power. This would have the most profound and direct implications for Americans’ economic fortunes and, because our economic security is tightly linked to our freedom, it would ultimately endanger our liberties. A China dominant over Asia would have the power and wealth to dictate to Americans, fundamentally altering — and undermining — our national life.
A Marine Learns Lessons From The Taliban
From Twitter user Lysander The God: