Such line of reasoning is perfectly fine as long as "what he was doing there anyway? Was he drafted?" gives decent response...
(but the the way you described a proper response lingers close to scenario fulfillment - sometimes new sensory information becomes available which shouldn't be discarded)
Yes, the funding, training and equipment went primarily through Pakistanis - and we merely put a blind eye when some specific factions of Mujahideen were favored, to the detriment of others (including openly fighting them), also more moderate ones... that changes everything.
Sorry, I didn't expect anyone else to bother with answering;)
Point is - maybe they were in the process of doing all that... "The way of war" - granted, the messiness that I mentioned. However I also do seem to remember that we were the "good ones"... in a war of dubious legality. And draft is a thing of the past.
Japan was at least in large part about them being scared shitless about Soviet invasion and occupation...
But yes, nuclear weapons do stop conflicts from getting too hot - as demonstrated by no serious talk of military action against North Korea, and why we should support obtaining them by Iran...
Can you be sure they didn't attempt it? Can your friend be? Did he understand the chatter coming from them? Was he able to call them to surrender?
Was it the sound of a clip hitting the ground or of the weapon? (yeah, a stretch;p - still, in such situation... And wouldn't you be paralyzed?)
Would he even consider such possibilities? ("he knew he had them" sounds like more or less his words, and like he already made his mind - well, if killing those two was the goal...)
Now, I'm not saying war isn't chaotic and messy - but this particular story (or how it was presented) leaves something to be desired.
Most of such investigations, fines levied, etc. are against European companies...
And from the looks of this one, they simply have to start an investigation when receiving a proper formal compliant. It might very well not go anywhere afterwards.
Russia and their invasion? You mean a Soviet military action in support of, funnily enough, essentially the same "government" which we are supporting for better part of the last decade?
Still a case of fighting against US-created foes (with the one everybody obsess about being mostly just a figurehead anyway, probably long dead from kidney failure at that - but shhhh, we need to catch him)
Moving the battlefield / attracting enemies to some shithole countries that you don't really care about, away from us, wasn't good enough - now it's time to dictate specific locations of engagements?
Too many people are perfectly happy with prices, when the government buys something for them with their money.
Sure, only one (group) at a time usually. But at some point they are happy - when it's your company, or one where you are employed (or your relatives, or generally important for the region); then the prices are of course perfectly fair.
(with F4 it could certainly be called premature (plus hampered by visual rules of engagement) - but did the fighter cannons play any role in recent major aerial combat? They might find great utility again for highly maneuverable fighter UAVs, but that's even greater shift of modus operandi)
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Such line of reasoning is perfectly fine as long as "what he was doing there anyway? Was he drafted?" gives decent response...
(but the the way you described a proper response lingers close to scenario fulfillment - sometimes new sensory information becomes available which shouldn't be discarded)
That's not even a universal signal... again, the best part is how the storyteller could as well not recognize such efforts anyway; or not care.
Yes, the funding, training and equipment went primarily through Pakistanis - and we merely put a blind eye when some specific factions of Mujahideen were favored, to the detriment of others (including openly fighting them), also more moderate ones... that changes everything.
Sorry, I didn't expect anyone else to bother with answering ;)
Point is - maybe they were in the process of doing all that... "The way of war" - granted, the messiness that I mentioned. However I also do seem to remember that we were the "good ones" ... in a war of dubious legality. And draft is a thing of the past.
Japan was at least in large part about them being scared shitless about Soviet invasion and occupation...
But yes, nuclear weapons do stop conflicts from getting too hot - as demonstrated by no serious talk of military action against North Korea, and why we should support obtaining them by Iran...
The memory starts to fail you ;) - Sputnik was in 1957.
Can you be sure they didn't attempt it? Can your friend be? Did he understand the chatter coming from them? Was he able to call them to surrender?
Was it the sound of a clip hitting the ground or of the weapon? (yeah, a stretch ;p - still, in such situation... And wouldn't you be paralyzed?)
Would he even consider such possibilities? ("he knew he had them" sounds like more or less his words, and like he already made his mind - well, if killing those two was the goal...)
Now, I'm not saying war isn't chaotic and messy - but this particular story (or how it was presented) leaves something to be desired.
Most of such investigations, fines levied, etc. are against European companies...
And from the looks of this one, they simply have to start an investigation when receiving a proper formal compliant. It might very well not go anywhere afterwards.
Try binging on Google sometimes.
Not sure if which of AKs is more ubiquitous matters in context, of mentioning high dependability of all of them / not tied to caliber.
Russia and their invasion? You mean a Soviet military action in support of, funnily enough, essentially the same "government" which we are supporting for better part of the last decade?
Still a case of fighting against US-created foes (with the one everybody obsess about being mostly just a figurehead anyway, probably long dead from kidney failure at that - but shhhh, we need to catch him)
Moving the battlefield / attracting enemies to some shithole countries that you don't really care about, away from us, wasn't good enough - now it's time to dictate specific locations of engagements?
What stopped that war was at least largely a case of greater fear of Soviet occupation than US one (or another bomb)
What are "us" doing there? (in a location where we could be sure such tactics will be used, no less)
In the end, seems to be quite unpopular view.
Centrifugal forces are likely orders of magnitude smaller than those resulting from firing, anyway.
So...in the end he basically shot at somebody disarmed?
Most widespread late versions of M16 don't even have full-auto, so I'm not sure if supposed 7.62 in such mode matters much.
How do you manage to have enough mental capability to hit keys with your "47 = 74"?
And fielded numbers (especially if the smaller is still huge) have what relevance when discussing their design?
Too many people are perfectly happy with prices, when the government buys something for them with their money.
Sure, only one (group) at a time usually. But at some point they are happy - when it's your company, or one where you are employed (or your relatives, or generally important for the region); then the prices are of course perfectly fair.
I wonder if the Opium Wars were called like that from the start...
You know, figuring out destabilizing practices and avoiding them might help, too...
That's not the way of the Empire.
(out of those, military might be in the end necessary to maintain overconsumption)
...shaped like a football...
Football, eh? ;)
(with F4 it could certainly be called premature (plus hampered by visual rules of engagement) - but did the fighter cannons play any role in recent major aerial combat? They might find great utility again for highly maneuverable fighter UAVs, but that's even greater shift of modus operandi)