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GUYS,

   NOTEWORTHY IN THIS REPORT IS NO REFERENCE TO WHAT COUNTRY THIS.....AHEM...... WEATHER SAT WAS OVER, WHEN IT BLEW.
 
   JUS' SAYIN'................
 
   SOUNDS LIKE A LASER HIT, IT HEATED THE ONBOARD FUEL TO THE IGNITION POINT, AND BANG!
 
   SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONES FINE TUNING THEIR ANTI-SAT LASER BY TAKING OUT A NON-CRITICAL SAT, SO AS TO NOT CREATE TOO MUCH OF AN UPROAR.
 
  I SEEM TO DIMLY RECALL THAT THESE TYPE ACTS ARE CALLED "PRE-OPERATIONAL INDICATORS", OR SOMESUCH.
 
   JESS1344
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GUYS,

   NOTEWORTHY IN THIS REPORT IS NO REFERENCE TO WHAT COUNTRY THIS.....AHEM...... WEATHER SAT WAS OVER, WHEN IT BLEW.
 
   JUS' SAYIN'................
 
   SOUNDS LIKE A LASER HIT, IT HEATED THE ONBOARD FUEL TO THE IGNITION POINT, AND BANG!
 
   SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONES FINE TUNING THEIR ANTI-SAT LASER BY TAKING OUT A NON-CRITICAL SAT, SO AS TO NOT CREATE TOO MUCH OF AN UPROAR.
 
  I SEEM TO DIMLY RECALL THAT THESE TYPE ACTS ARE CALLED "PRE-OPERATIONAL INDICATORS", OR SOMESUCH.
 
   JESS

 

 

>>I SEEM TO DIMLY RECALL THAT THESE TYPE ACTS ARE CALLED "PRE-OPERATIONAL INDICATORS", OR SOMESUCH.

 

Yep. You knock out comms before you start the serious shit.

Just like they'd send out guys to cut phone lines the night before an attack in WWII.

 

Or maybe Putin is getting a head start on April 1st.

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GUYS,

   NOTEWORTHY IN THIS REPORT IS NO REFERENCE TO WHAT COUNTRY THIS.....AHEM...... WEATHER SAT WAS OVER, WHEN IT BLEW.
 
   JUS' SAYIN'................
 
   SOUNDS LIKE A LASER HIT, IT HEATED THE ONBOARD FUEL TO THE IGNITION POINT, AND BANG!
 
   SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONES FINE TUNING THEIR ANTI-SAT LASER BY TAKING OUT A NON-CRITICAL SAT, SO AS TO NOT CREATE TOO MUCH OF AN UPROAR.
 
  I SEEM TO DIMLY RECALL THAT THESE TYPE ACTS ARE CALLED "PRE-OPERATIONAL INDICATORS", OR SOMESUCH.
 
   JESS

 

 

>>I SEEM TO DIMLY RECALL THAT THESE TYPE ACTS ARE CALLED "PRE-OPERATIONAL INDICATORS", OR SOMESUCH.

 

Yep. You knock out comms before you start the serious shit.

Just like they'd send out guys to cut phone lines the night before an attack in WWII.

 

Or maybe Putin is getting a head start on April 1st.

 

SPARTACUS,

 IF YOU WERE AROUND TO SEE GEN. SCHWARTZKOPF'S PRESS CONFERENCE IMMEDIATELY AFTER GW I, WHAT WAS THE FIRST THING HE SAID?

 

 "FIRST, WE TOOK OUT HIS (SADDAM'S) EYES".

 

 A LESSON LEARNED FROM ANOTHER GREAT WARRIOR GENERAL, SUN TZU.

 

 FOR ANY INTERESTED, THE BEST AND MOST CLEARLY WRITTEN TRANSLATION OF "THE ART OF WAR" WAS DONE BY BGEN. SAMUEL B. GRIFFITH, USMC (IMAGINE THAT!), ISBN 0-19-501476-6.

 

 THE LESSONS THEREIN CAN BE APPLIED TO ANYTHING IN LIFE, NOT JUST WARFARE, PROVIDED YOU ARE SUFFICIENTLY AGILE-MINDED.

 

 JUS' SAYIN'..........

 

  JESS1344

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I am reading Art of War during my down time. It's amazing how some of what was written applies today.

RENEGADE,

  INDEED!

 

 ARE YOU READING THE GRIFFITH TRANSLATION?

 

  JESS1344

 

 

His rules are simple, logical, enlightening, and not one damn situation in life isnt covered by some.

 

Whichever translation you like get it on paper for off the grid entertainment. 

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I am reading Art of War during my down time. It's amazing how some of what was written applies today.

RENEGADE,

  INDEED!

 

 ARE YOU READING THE GRIFFITH TRANSLATION?

 

  JESS1344

 

 

His rules are simple, logical, enlightening, and not one damn situation in life isnt covered by some.

 

Whichever translation you like get it on paper for off the grid entertainment. 

 

No, the translation is by Lionel Giles, 1875-1958, a Victorian era scholar and assistant curator at the British Museum and Keeper of the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, according to the introduction. The book is divided into two sections. No commentary accompanies the first text, so you interpret it.  I like that because you don't have someone else's opinion to deal with. The second  section does have commentary. It's only 249 pages in extra fine print so I have to use my 2x reading glasses.

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RENEGADE,

 THE GRIFFITH TRANSLATION IS ONLY 197 PAGES, TO INCLUDE THE INDEX, WITH NORMAL-SIZED TYPE TYPE, IN A 5X8" SOFT COVER FORMAT.

 

 YOU'LL HAVE TO COMPARE THE TWO TO GET THE FULL IMPLICATION OF WHAT I MEAN BY "CLEARLY WRITTEN".

 

 IT'LL BE WELL WORTH THE NOMINAL COST.

 

"His rules are simple, logical, enlightening, and not one damn situation in life isnt covered by some"

 

ABSOLUTELY! 

 

JESS1344

 

 

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There was a vid out there on how every failed complex project, in particular of course war and battle, clearly violated this work.

 

Little wonder of what prices of error were paid in the learning before it's writing and ignoring since.

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RHODES,

 DEAD-ON BROTHER..........

 

 EVER READ THAT LITTLE PARABLE "ALL FOR THE WANT OF A HORSESHOE NAIL"?

 

 IT'S GOOGLEABLE.....

 

COULD JUST AS EASILY BE ENTITLED "ALL FOR THE WANT OF READING (AND UNDERSTANDING) THE ART OF WAR".

 

JUS' SAYIN'......

 

 JESS1344

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