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I'd like to thank Badger and the other Milsurps moderators for hosting the CSP forums during the period of technical difficulties. It was a really decent thing to do and you Canadians are truly our...

Army Brass Conduct Before Afghan Attack Is Questioned

By Greg Jaffe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 24, 2009


A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and an Army historian...

Wanat (VIII): An Army report finds a major COIN failure
ForeignPolicy.com
Thu, 07/23/2009 - 11:46am

by Thomas E. Ricks

The Army's study of what happened in the Wanat battle a year ago in...

On another forum it was suggested that the trench scenes shown may be of training trenches because they are so neat, trim, and evidence of damage from gunfire and shells is so conspicuously absent. ...

Those are color photographs. The following link to the Daily Telegraph, London, from last November has many of the same images and the captions are in English.

The first colour photographs from...

Click on the link to see color photos of the German army during WW I. These were taken in Alsace and Champagne during the early part of the war.

Die Farbe des Krieges - einestages

Seeing as how it's the French national holiday we ought to say something about them. The First World War wouldn't have been won without the heavy sacrifices French army and during that conflict we...

Today is Bastille Day, France's national holiday. Does this mean we have to say nice things about Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle ("Vivre le Quebec libre")?

Allons enfants de la Patrie,...

Germany has revived a version of the Iron Cross for the first time since 1945. Its own military is in a precarious situation--because of the past, Germany's citizens and allies want its armed forces...

From The Times
London
May 19, 2009

Courts rule British soldiers covered by right to life

Michael Evans, Defence Editor

Army chiefs can be sued over decisions taken in the heat of battle...

Petraeus: Shippers should consider armed guards

By LARA JAKES
The Associated Press
Friday, April 24, 2009 10:31 PM

WASHINGTON -- The global shipping industry should consider placing armed...

Which past or present U.S. DoD weapons were designed by the U.N.?

In the 1960s L.L. Bean catalogs used to say that the Marines in Iceland wore its Maine Hunting Shoes specially purchased off the shelf because of the climate there. They're the leather-top,...

If this were the 19th century the pirates would be given summary justice under the old Admiralty Law. As it is most of the foreign ministries of countries with naval ships in the area have told...

My understanding is that there were indeed a few Marines present for the landing at Normandy but their role was purely as advisors and trainers on amphibious warfare. I once dated the daughter of a...

President Obama Backs Inter-American Arms Treaty

By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:41 PM

MEXICO CITY, April 16 -- President Obama announced in a visit...

From Times Online
London
April 12, 2009

Germany struggles with gun ownership laws
Fran Yeoman

In a low-ceilinged room in west Berlin, a gunman steadies himself, aims and fires. The noise is...

I think it was mighty decent of Badger and the management of Milsurps to give CSP a new home when the old CSP Unix equipment crashed.

I believe that when Vern was in the infantry at Chateau-Thierry they used to have an expression about "stepping on it."

Right-hand twist is the standard for U.S. field artillery tubes and for that reason drift is always a left correction.

About two weeks ago in the Washington Post there was a brief discussion of the reluctance of some civil servants in the federal government to accept overseas assignments in combat zones and other...

BNP stands for Birmingham Nitro Proof. The mark means the carbine came into the hands of a British arms dealer at some point in time and the proof test and mark were required by British law before...

What we knew as jeeps were actually one-quarter ton. From Globalsecurity.org:

The M151A2 1/4 ton utility truck is the last of the vehicles commonly called jeeps and the last of the series of 1/4...

Does this mean that brightly colored Afghan blankets are no longer the Jouster CSP standard for the background of firearms photographs? Another venerable tradition has died and is "Gone With the...

Doug, Deborah, and MILSURPS,
I'd like to thank you for your generosity in helping to keep CSP Jouster afloat and I sincerely regret any attacks or insinuations that have been made about your motives...