Phil Gray

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• Dirk Bruere commented on Tanks! Why tank stories make great tech myths
  There are actually very few Russian troops in Ukraine. Russia generally supplies arms and more importantly pays the wages of the separatists. The latter were made up originally of a good number of professional soldiers....
• Greg. Tingey commented on Tanks! Why tank stories make great tech myths
  THIS Irregular forces can really only exist on a significant scale with some form of State actor in support - no-one else can afford it. And, for that matter, the rest of your post ( Thank you ) made me remember something obvious - right in front of all our faces, actually. Where are the money & supplies for the Taliban & Da'esh coming from? Someone is supporting these mad, murdering semi-nazi bastards, or they wouldn't be doing so well ( For certain values of "well" ) I suspect the extreme Sunni / Saudi / Wahabi nutters ... but: Cui...
• RDSouth commented on Tanks! Why tank stories make great tech myths
  Where are the money & supplies for the Taliban & Da'esh coming from? The Taliban sells heroin and Da'esh sells oil (plus archeological relics). America is currently having something of a heroin epidemic due to low prices. Somebody is dumping it, prime suspect being somebody in Afghanistan who needs money. As for ISIS or whatever: http://www.npr.org/2015/10/14/448697144/isis-makes-millions-from-the-sale-of-oil-in-war-torn-syria-and-iraq But indeed, "irregular" forces are usually indirect agents of states. They are used to do things the state itself does not wish to be openly seen to be doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War#Morale...
• paws4thot commented on Tanks! Why tank stories make great tech myths
  "ISIS" (aka ISIL, 'Islamic State' et al) are Western misnomers for Da'esh....
• Dirk Bruere commented on Tanks! Why tank stories make great tech myths
  No, it is what it calls itself...