Comments on: War Nerd Roundup: Mo’ Money for Mog, Bummer of A Gaza

By: montenegro

montenegro — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:50:17 +0000

The onley thing that matters is moneyyyyy, and you go figure who has the moste of it.

By: SA

SA — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:10:10 +0000

Garry, I am thrilled about your knowledge for Belisarius, you an American (I am only kidding)! The irony is that Belisarius, when the Carthaginians rebelled against the Byzantines; it sounds like Palestinians rebelling against the Israelites, he went in with the army like the IDF, flatten the city and massacred its inhabitants irrelevant of age or sex. However, that was nearly 1500 years ago, but attitudes in wars, it seems haven’t change much.

By: G. Tingey

G. Tingey — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:16:15 +0000

“no use letting the Euros try to do it like we’re doing now, they don’t have the will to pull the trigger any more”

WRONG AGAIN.

The French just proved you wrong.
Also, the RN still has standing orders regarding piracy, as do most real navies……

By: kaangeya

kaangeya — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:50:50 +0000

Gary isn’t going to be writing about Sri Lanka, because like all pandits, he only provokes counter-examples. Attrition warfare works v.well. The LTTE thanks to the Indian noose it drew around its neck, unasked is well a truly finished. The LTTE is definitely the best rag-tag army ever. But norag-tag army can fight a war of attrition. There’s no counter-example to that. Don’t waste your time with Gary. Likewise for Somali punks. A shot in the gunwales works v.well.

By: OrangePlus

OrangePlus — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:31:10 +0000

Dude, long time no hear. What’s new?

By: ccL1

ccL1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:57:35 +0000

Where’s War Nerd? I miss him!!!

By: VegasBallysHotel

VegasBallysHotel — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:34:55 +0000

A-Lex, where do you find that info? this could be something to read!

By: A-Lex

A-Lex — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:38:15 +0000

I’ll have to update you, Gary: the released Russian/Ukrainian sailors from Faina have told their stories to the press, and their depiction of the ransom collection part doesn’t match your story.

The pirates didn’t actially “zoom out” on their boats to collect the dough, because it was dropped aboard the freighter from a helicopter, $3.2 mln packed in two travel bags. There were about 60 Somalis on the freighter, and they all got involved in counting the money, with the hostages watching =)

“The pirates were splitting the money between two gangs,” a Russian sailor recalls. “The one that boarded our ship, and the one that guarded us. They all looked very happy.”

There’s another interesting part in his interview. According to the seaman, the pirates were constantly chewing on some “narcotic weed”, which they got from… Americans. A few Amercian warships were permanently on guard near Faina, keeping track of the negotiation process and supplyting the captors with whatever they requested.

At some point the Somalis didn’t get their weed on time — that’s when they got all itchy and nasty. They declared that they would now treat the hostages the way Americans treat themselves. So they took all food and water from the sailors, then hustled them to their cabins in the lower deck. The captives spent about 9 hours there until the weed was finally shipped over from the Yankees.

Don’t you love that story?

By: BBee

BBee — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:47:58 +0000

Hey mark, I’ll fight u. You’re pretty old right?

By: Tomasz Wegrzanowski

Tomasz Wegrzanowski — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:30:43 +0000

I don’t believe Gaza war had any military goals, it was just to get more votes, and it seems to have worked. Just like Bush went after Afghanistan and Iraq, and in countless other wars since the Roman empire - a “victory”, even if meaningless from a military point of view, is great for getting popularity and votes.

And don’t count Israel out just yet - it still has high demographic growth, and demographic war correlates with wars very strongly, as you must have certainly noticed.