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Saturday, February 4, 2023

Tanks Attack, They are Designed for Offense

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  From their first use as land battleships in World War I, tanks are an attack weapon.  They can be used in defense, but as my last post poi...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Tactics, Not Just Numbers, Win Tank Battles

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The Panzer I, armed with just machine guns was  no match for any French or British tank. The common view of the first year of World War II i...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Tanks Devour Fuel, Ammo and Spare Parts: Ukraine will be training tank crews, mechanics, and supply crews

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  M559 Goer Fuel Truck One long night in November of 1977, my tank crew was on our third week of training in the West German countryside nea...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

The Death Camp Next Door: The Sites Where the Holocaust Happened

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Auschwitz Barracks   Auschwitz rail siding where prisoners were sorted  for slave labor or extermination In March I will be speaking to a gr...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

More Photos from PanzerMuseum East, Denmark

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Soviet missiles, motorcycles, machine tools, models and helicopters at the PanzerMuseum East, Denmark. This museum was built as a warning ag...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms by Barry Packer, Book 1 of 2023

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My first book of 2023 is one I was reading off and on through most of last year. It is an odd book that is more history than science, but no...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

From Arctic Norway to Israel to South America, Pandemic Travel

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  Bodo, Norway, at 2am on June 21 this year. In the three pandemic years ending this month, I have traveled to twenty-one countries on four ...