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[It looks like the hacks at "strategypage" just lifted it from FR]

Actually I am the original author and after I posted it on a vanity thread here I submitted it to StrategyPage to be published, and I asked them not to publish my name so I could remain anonymous. I've always found their articles to be quite interesting and full of information on a variety of topics. That and the fact that they have over 300,000 unique visitors each month made me quite happy that they decided to print my modest bit of work.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Cool, glad you're happy and that it was posted with your permission.

Re Strategypage, it's a place where a lot of wargamers that did their military service on a tech bench or squinting at satellite photos (if they did it at all) tell each other how much smarter they are than those dumb officers running the war (not to mention the dumb soldiers fighting it...).

It's kind of like Hackworth's "Soldiers for the Truth" -- a lot of armchair weenies playing combat wannabee. Well if they really wanted to be, they coulda been, you know?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F