tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post672629641359634492..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: Today's Reading AssignmentGeorge Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-56627032717637749562011-05-14T09:37:24.032-04:002011-05-14T09:37:24.032-04:00The North Vietnamese Army (NVA) conducted a Spring...The North Vietnamese Army (NVA) conducted a Spring offensive beginning in the waning days of March, 1972. In spite of their initial successes, they were defeated as soundly as they had been in their 1968 Tet offensive. In 1972 they brought air cover with them in the form of SA-2 and SA-7 missiles. The SA-2 were hunted down and destroyed, along with the rest of the NVA; the SA-7s (what are now called MANPADs) just weren't very effective.<br /><br />That defeat and the subsequent Linebacker I and Linebacker II operations got our POWs their freedom.<br /><br />The best defense is a good offense. Signaling one's intentions rather than kicking butt merely invites defeat.TOFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14234091783167165660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-54242252094902372242011-05-13T22:10:27.611-04:002011-05-13T22:10:27.611-04:00You're probably right...
http://www.bbc.co.uk...You're probably right...<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13385597<br /><br />13 May 2011 Last updated at 12:51 ET <br />Pakistan bombings: Taliban admits Shabqadar attacks<br /><br />Twin bomb attacks on a paramilitary force academy in north-west Pakistan have killed 80 people, police say. At least 120 people were wounded in the blasts at the training centre for the Frontier Constabulary in Shabqadar, Charsadda district.<br /><br />The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack to avenge the death of Osama Bin Laden earlier this month.Paul G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17270835772123856564noreply@blogger.com