Actually there is a level of mathematics that isn't absolute. You have to hit higher levels of calculus college classes to be exposed to it, but it does exist. I spent about 5 minutes with Google trying to remember the name, but couldn't find it. I'll keep looking though and post if I find it.

You can always tell when someone has had any interaction with German military when they throw the "Hitler" card. The military in Germany is the opposite of the US. You won't find, "Support Our Troops," and all the accolades we give in the US. Public support is very low, esp visibly. If you want to really bring to close a conversation with a German soldier, bring up Hitler. The conversation will instantly be awkward and you might get 4-8 more words before he finds a good reason to leave your company. I'm German-descent, speak some German, and have a German last name. No matter how high my curiosity, I've learned to not mention any topic related to WWII because I value friendly dialogue with people from my ancestors homeland.

Where are you getting this 65%? I'm here in Afghanistan and I see the numbers every day. Are you including ANA/ANP/ALP/etc in "Coalition", or NATO, or ISAF (which is ~50-60 nations)? That percentage is way high unless you're using really old numbers (that precede when I got here in 2010). Afghans make up a bulk now, I won't quote numbers but they should be available from the ISAF PA office, but there are "much more" Afghans killed by Al Quieda/HiG/Taliban than US (or even NATO) wounded. Insurgents are slaughtering the local population with IEDs and this is why in some areas, once their stronghold, the local population is kicking them out. We have jammers, blast resistant vehicles (MRAPS) and avoid the situations (e.g. precision air dropped supplies from C-130s which were once trucked in). I could give more specific examples, but they're not events I can disclose (maybe Jill Kelley can hahahahaha). Back on point, US isn't a majority in any recent stat I've seen.

You're preaching to an audience that won't believe you. Look at the stats. Something like only 1% in right now and a small number in previously, so they'll believe nearly anything they're fed. I know under Gen McChrystal it got to epic silly-inducing levels with the top-down pressure to NOT go kinetic. Literally, every single bomb air dropped was documented and upchanneled to the minutia detail. Who (nationality) dropped it? Why? Where did it drop? What was around it? Did it even touch a civilian building? etc etc etc. Yet, you read all these comments and we use F-14s as cable car lawn darts, haphazardly kill Brits, and kick puppies (we even import them in case we run low). And, I'l sure some Wiki-Warrior will cut and paste some article written by a guy who was here 5 days, stayed behind the wire, and quote it as gospel-fact. If you learned anything in the military it has to be at least these two principles: Most people sit around and complain about stuff they know nothing about (military, overseas, the government,etc) and second, the media is horrible at representing the reality of a situation.

-Written from Afghanistan

Right, so the reports of the SSGT who murdered down in Khandahar is pure lies. He's really sipping Mai Tai's in Peru, and not freezing his nads off in a small cell in the middle of Kansas (Fort Leavenworth). So, the reports of the guy who coerced his soldiers into killing in Iraq is also a lie. Not having trials at all.... I wish I was stupid enough to be naive enough to believe garbage like that.

HA! This is yet another piece of proof that consoles are better! NAH NAH :-)~ :) Go ahead, hack my console. Whatyagonnado? Jack up my Skyrim campaign. *Feigned Horror Scary Face* :O

Duh, Black Ops II...

Regards, Capt Me

The arguments in the summary don't follow logic and it's obvious the author doesn't understand gaming when he tries to say with a straight face that an iPad will replace a console. I have two iPads in my household, well three if you include the one I'm giving my 4 year old for Christmas in two months, and three consoles (a Wii, Xbox360, and Xbox360 Slim. My 10 year old is just as much a gamer as I am in my early 40s. You won't find us putting down the controller for the console to go play the tablet. If we're playing the tablet, it's because the console isn't available, such as at the store, in a hotel, at the airport, driving to school, at work, etc.

This is why you'll continue to see COD, GOW, and other epic titles getting way more play than Angry Birds. I really can't believe the best iPad app game the author could come up with that is Angry Birds. Yes, never mind a shooter game that takes 23 hours of game play, has a plot, is multiplayer, horde/survival/whatever modes, etc isn't even in the same league or continent as a game where I slide my finger across a screen to whack pigs with a bird. Actually, now I'm angry at the editor or whomever that published such a retarded piece of dung, aka an article... Then again, it is the Internet.

I'd say you should do some research into Asian conflicts in the last 200 years. Koreans, Vietnamese and the Japanese were not to be underestimated in their resolve to completely destroy any one they saw as the enemy. Abu graib (iraqi prison) is a comfy night at the spa compared to what went down during the Korean and WWII war time period.

Jean was iPad corrected from "hear"

Very good points and a perspective you don't jean often. When I said steal I was meaning more in a sense we were trying to keep them from the Soviets. if we didn't grab them, the soviets, who we are told understood the potential, we're doing heir best to get them..

60 years later it's always easier to play devil's advocate. I can logically counter your first question by saying, "Do you not think the Japanese had quality intel?" A nuclear blast, as well as several nuclear events, is not exactly a huge secret even in pre-space surveillance days (nowadays, we know exactly when, where, how, and how big in nanoseconds due to AFTAC sensors worldwide and in space). So, to take this point to the next level, the Japanese can very likely have known about our nuclear intent and capability. Afterall, their comrades the Germans, are where we stole the scientists to get our capability faster. I'm sure at some point an Intel Chief from Germany gave a phone call to the Japanese Intel division and said something to the effect, "Hey heads up, the Americans have one of our scientists who will give them the capability within X months (weeks?)." The Japanese are said to have been apprehensive attacking us at all because of the known capabilities we bring to any fight, even back then. However, I'd say hundreds of sunken ships and fallen planes throughuot the Pacific region would be emperical evidence they thought the rewards were worth the risks. This is why we're playing very conservative with near-nuclear states today. We know the potential downsides to attacking a crazy dictator with one operational nuke with an ICBM, or MRBM capability.

Your second paragraph I've already partially addressed. Nuclear technology was very unpredictable at the time. How do you measure the released energy of an atom being split when you've barely done it? My careerfield is Space and Missiles, so if you can be specific about whatever test, then I can have a more educated response. I've read thousands of pages on nuclear testing, etc, but again, if you can cite a spcific test you find insane, unethical or whathaveyou, I can repond.

Really, no threat at all? So, help me out. Where did the trade towers in New York go? The sailors who died on the USS Cole hat was only sitting in port, where did the explosion come from? The Khobar Towers? All of those incidents were young men taught to hate from childhood and none of them attacked on native soil (or territorial waters in the Cole example).

Unocal? In afghanistan? I dont think you've ever set in foot in Afghanistan. Now, china wants to put a pipe through but if you've noticed, we have very different outlooks on foreign policy than they do and so you'd be really stretching to believe causation between those two.

ideology doesn't sustain conflict? Oh my goodness I want the KoolAid you're drinking. Oh yeah the Crusades were just a hiccup in recorded history and the Muslims haven't been warring for centuries. Wahabaiism, started around 1300 AD, isn't cited today in Mosques, some 710 years later, and quoted by Taliban\ Al Quieda, to include the 9/11 "martyrs.". I noticed you've strayed way off the kids angle. Was is just a ruse so someone would feed the troll?

Well, seems we agree you're sorry. Sorry is the state of being that you don't stand for anything and hence, fall for anything. The world is not black and white. What's moral to you is the same as asking what's your favorite flavor of ice cream. The child with the AK-47 has been taught his whole life to hate others because they don't believe in the same imaginary friend or even within the same religion. Sunnis and Shia, both Muslim, each think the other is wrong in HOW they believe. Being wrong (to them) makes you an infidel, and hence, bullet fodder. The child will 100% believe he's moral as he puts the 7.62mm projectile through your skull for being: Jewish, Pakistani, Sunni, or even just "Western Influenced." So you can be moral all you want but you'll either be dead or be safe because someone like me stops them from killing you, by following Rules of Engagement for dealing with a military threat while serving their country in the profession of arms.

Thankfully, most people realize the duty, honor, and courage service to your country entails and respect it.

Right. It was: continue losing troops and ships without an ability to stop it. We now know we were weeks from being absolutely screwed since the Jap and Germans were very nearly capable of fielding jet powered aircraft. We'd have been a long ways away from being able to counter that threat.