Stephen Green, the Vodkapundit, has a good ice-breaker post (what other kind for the Vodkapundit, eh?) up at Pajamas Media, called "One of these things is not like the other." It starts out with a discussion on the naming of military operations, and then moved on to the name of the offensive in Afghanistan - Husky.Torch.Anvil.Overlord.Olympic.Linebacker.Reforger.Rolling Thunder.These are the names we used to give our military operations. Forceful names. Decisive names. Military names. OK, so Operation Olympic got called off — but only because we’d already nuked the crap out of a couple Japanese cities. After that, an actual invasion just...
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/02/on_the_importan_2.html
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Feb 17 2010, 04:58 AM
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