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Any base the Russians were at - when they left, they also destroyed everything they could - sinks, pipes, wndows  - you name it. Mindless vandalism - and great loss of possible good-will

Of course economics comes into play too: The - for lack of  of a better term - force multipliers in regard to AFV's - arrangement of refueling point, ease of reloading ammunition, ease of maintenance (powerpack service and removal) and reliability - even track life. I don't think this part is...

And some more on ethnic cleansing: if you look at the referred-to Human Rights Watch - it is far from being pro-American in regard to the articles posted: Georgia accuses Russia of 'ethnic cleansing' MARGARITA ANTIDZE Reuters August 15, 2008 at 6:43 AM EDT TBILISI — Georgian President...

A little bit about ethnic cleansing: August 15, 2008 Signs of Ethnic Attacks in Georgia Conflict By SABRINA TAVERNISE and MATT SIEGEL TBILISI, Georgia — As the conflict between Russia and Georgia enters its second week, there is growing evidence of looting and “ethnic cleansing” in a number of...

Open source documentation implies storage is different but attention is placed to such matters - unlike the carousal storage of Russian - derived vehicles (T-72) (Please note - I was a sapper, not a black-hatter). From reading about the 2nd World War Sherman - much of the bad press of that...

The problem though is not with the US in this regard - or for that matter Canada or the UK - but Germany and of course a few other European fellow members of NATO - Would they live up to their obligations - if given a guarantee of non-interference? Europe from what I see (i live in Poland but am...

If they even bother - if you look at Russian military cemeteries  - (as in Poland) (mostly unmarked) mass graves for the men, single (marked) graves for the officers.  Do they wear metal 'dogtags' now? Then (WW2) it was a bakelite vial with a piece of paper in it with name and home. How an army...

Good idea - a vote - should that include all those who lived in that area in 1991 and their descendents... or earlier? That's the trouble with these votes - who should be included - The allied powers ran into this problem in 1919 regarding the messy partition of Silesia and Pomerania.. I believe...

i hope a better deal than that offered by France and England some 70 years ago.. i wonder.. were those treaties ever abolished - or are they still good?

About 210 km (about) due west of Kaliningrad by the way

well that's good news - right near the coast near Slupsk - rather beautiful area - probably a bit boring for the younger soldier. Interesting that there is a separate declaration of defence to the usual mutual defence treaty of NATO - does this mean the US has given up on NATO?

Of course there's the ammo storage set-ups - evidenced by the turret explosions - i seem to remember a comment in some other site of a Gulf War tanker stating that that was how they discerned a live tank from a dead one - no turret, they got it, and when ever they got it the turret flew - I can...

In the pictures Mr. Tomahawk6 posted on the Russia - Georgia thread, there is one of two T-55 (updated) (this ID Mr. George Wallace posits) tanks which obviously suffered catastrophic failure - the ammunition blew up - in your view, what are the merits or deficiencies of Russian produced/derived...

Actually I wouldn't use the term ''Commie-lovers'' - I'd say this is just a continuation of the ''Great Game''- the Russia-West confrontations of the 19th century. The foreign policy of the Soviet Union was very similar to that of Czarist Russia... In many ways it is ridiculous in that if you...

Hotel california - ''liver 'n onions at the Hotel California..."

I have been perusing the wikipedia article on the Munich Agreement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement of September 1938.  The peace treaty (document of surrender) 'concluding' this war  was negotiated by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. I rather hope he didn't hold up a piece of...

Well.. the latest in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/world/europe/14georgia.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin 14, 2008 Bush, Sending Aid, Demands That Moscow Withdraw By STEVEN LEE MYERS This article was reported by Steven Lee Myers, Sabrina Tavernise and...

On a technical basis - the catastrophic failure of the tanks shown in the pictures supplied by Mr. Tomahawk6 are quite evident (to me) that the quality of  Russian designed armour used in this conflict lags far behind Western designs. The attempt to update them with reaction armour is evident. ...

No discussion of misheard lyrics cannot go by without a mention of Stairway to Heaven.... I only discovered (out of curiosity) what these were a year ago... and got it wrong right from the start - Of the posters here, what are your perceived versions of this one?   To the list i can add Lil'...

"calling the president a thug is just unacceptable and insulting. It's probably best not to respond to provocation' - so what do you suggest - pistols at dawn? Nice term 'peacekeepers' Do they wear blue helmets? Are they paid by the United Nations? Are they minimally armed? Are they neutral? I...