[Interesting Times]

It takes a while for serious war materials to be brought into position. We're just now at the point in the timeline where we could reasonably expect to intensify our current level of activity.

Our remarkable high-tech weaponry tends to make people overlook the more mundane requirements of logistics...

[Gumption]

Our remarkable high-tech weaponry tends to make people overlook the more mundane requirements of logistics...

Change "make people" to "make journalists" and I would agree completely. The people, even my sweet Aunts, mother, and sister seem perfectly content with the progression of things. It's almost instinctive or something. It's like everyone has a firm grasp on what going on and what's needed except for the press corps charged with the duty to know. I hope you follow what I'm saying because I can't think of any other way to say it. Probably cause I don't understand it myself.

[flyover]

Along with supplies can you imagine the intel data base that has had to be accumulated in this very short period of time. Each bomb mission has had to have been photograped several different times, a photo interpreter has had to look at, pictures blow them up and specifically identify what we evidently are defining as "valid" (military) targets, maybe with the help of a collaborator, or possibly from historical data, or maybe even with Russian help, he then had to read several sequences of these targets into a computer, distribute the data base to the fighter/bomber organizations. The pilots then had to study the photos and look at bombing runs to ensure that they could id the target from 30k feet. And then while actually flying the mission if it didn't look exactly like the info on his computer back at base he was probably forced to pull off and go home with his payload. Of course the further we get into the war the more data that will all ready be available in the intel data base and the less time it will take to quickly id and bomb specific targets. But in my mind the speed with which we started the bombing was a total surprise due to the amount of intel necessary to fight a war under these conditions

[Abn1508]

Like the senator who is insisting that we "go in and feed the starving Afghans." Jesus Chr*st on a Crutch. With _what_? From _where_? Using _what_ ports? Using _what_ roads?