11 December 2010

GrogNews Weekend Headlines


Is the head of the New Zealand Defence Force a wargamer? Woohoo!

CNN is running a behind-the-lines documentary from Afghanistan. Maybe they can explain with the AfPak intel reviews are bleak.
The history of one blogger's critique of the Afghan War has been turned into a book.
There are some damn old rifles in circulation in Afghanistan.
And as odd as it may seem, there's a Christmas Tree in the middle of the Afghan desert.

The Mirror (UK) sees a bleak outlook with North Korea situation?

Pirates have seized a U.S.-operated ship.

Is Iran selling medium-range missiles to Venezuela?

Putin thinks that Assange being arrested is undermining democracy. OK, I guess he's the expert, huh?

The Navy has successfully fired a rail gun.

The Russians would love to project power with aircraft carriers the way the US does, but just can't afford them.

By: Brant

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

General Rhys Jones sounds like a miniatures man, which is actually a bit more typical wargamer outside of the US and Canada. But we won't hold that against him....