Originally posted on Rebel Voice:
Homo Sapiens are experts at inventing ever more efficient means of killing one another. We have moved from using the leg-bone of a Woolly mammoth when bashing a skull, to dropping nuclear bombs on civilians populations just to see what will happen. No other species can compare with ours when…
When nations conduct military drills, they are not just testing their own capabilities and improving unit cohesion, they are also sending out a message to those who might challenge them. Russia has just held a large-scale military drill which was designed to proclaim their readiness to take on the United States of America. This comes […]
This might be one for the boys (apologies for any sexism in that remark). Weapons can be really cool. Humans have had a fixation on them for as long as there have been weapons. Self-evident? Probably. From crude clubs that were refined to be made from the most suitable and durable wood, to spears sharpened […]
The recent trend for using ROV‘s, or remotely operated vehicles, in the theatre of war should be a worrying development for those who understand armed conflict. In long gone days, when men fought with swords and spears, it was a bigger deal to take a life. A combatant could smell his opponent, including the scent […]
As we move inexorably towards global conflict, with the Middle East the likely, but not only, point of ignition, the world’s superpowers are arming themselves to the teeth. Russia knows that the US Feds and their corporate comptrollers want its influence not merely diminished but gone entirely. China knows that the US Empire requires an […]
We’ve seen them in Star Wars as they stomped through the forests of Endor where the Ewok lived, as Luke and Hans fought to save the galaxy, the one that is far, far, away. Walker transports were once confined to the realms of fiction, but now have found their way into reality. The Russians have […]
Homo Sapiens are experts at inventing ever more efficient means of killing one another. We have moved from using the leg-bone of a Woolly mammoth when bashing a skull, to dropping nuclear bombs on civilians populations just to see what will happen. No other species can compare with ours when it comes to random, brutal, […]
