Monday, March 23, 2009

Convoy Training

Today we dressed up in all of our field gear and spent the day learning about how to avoid getting killed by Improvised Explosive Devices, better know as IEDs. This first day was all classes. The rest of the week we will be rolling in convoy and learning what to do to find and stop IED attacks. I'll write more later in the week when we are moving long distances and getting "attacked" on the road.

The Unnecessary Alliance: Barbarossa Unleashed and the Moral Cost of Victory

  In Barbarossa Unleashed , Craig Luther  makes an unsettling argument: the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was doomed not beca...