Your view of the urban battlefield was true in Iraq, not in Afghanistan.

Great scene from "All Creatures Great and Small", the knackers children were the healthiest in town.

She was no longer a clandestine operative when her name was leaked, and it was well known that she used to be an operative in her social circle. That's why no one was ever charged with a crime, the information was no longer secret when leaked.

How is this better than the global depression caused by sovereign defaults? The Germans won't keep paying to save the rest of Europe's banks and poorly run countries. They don't have enough money even if they wanted to.

This is why banks shouldn't have been bailed out in any country. If the bankers want to take stupid risks and make loans to people with no assets or income, let them. When those foolish loans fail the banks should fail as well. When they have to pay for their own mistakes the remaining bankers will make good investments. If bankers continue to make bad investments GOTO sentence 2.

the brotherhood of man is cold and cruel. You better save a couple possessions(guns and ammo) or some of your brotherhood will make your loved ones their play things. Don't forget, disaster tends to imply social breakdown.

A capstone course should not have 600 people in it. A lot of 100 and some 200 level courses have huge class sizes, but if your school has a class size this large at a higher level something is wrong with the school.

You need shelter for troops long you worry about heating/cooling and long before you worry about insulation. The tents will always be there before there is any time to give thought to insulating them. More complicated solutions will work when expanding pre-existing bases with a long time to plan and prepare. The foam will work on any base of any size in any theater- That is the big advantage.

You're forgetting about something. Those soldiers no longer involved with convoy duties can be used for other things. Say you send those truck drivers home, bring over more intel and infantry. Your 100 future martyrs get to sit around waiting for a new explosives expert to replace the one captured/killed by the additional combat troops.

Where are you going to get the earth? The foam and application equipment can be used even on small fire bases that can only be resupplied by air. You can ship a bulldozer by air, but it will have to leave to base to go dig up dirt. Big target. If the ground is soft enough to dig up easily, do you think the local who owns the land will be happy about it? The foam can be applied quickly and eaisly to already existing structures in all environments.

When SSDs fail, they are still readable. So the friend of a friend's uncle wont lose his entire porn collection (life's work). He just won't be able to save that new clip he downloaded.

Any book with that amount of knowledge will be avalanche for checkout from the library, not in the sale bin. If someone has the self motivation, everything needed for any undergrad education is available for $1.98 in late charges at the public library. The only reason any of those books will be on the sale rack is if the library got an updated or newer copy.

Instead of demanding that other people "share" their wealth, why don't you go out and earn yourself a piece of that pie? Get a scanner and start selling books. Look for market inefficiencies in the areas you have significant knowledge of and find your own way to move things from people that don't want them to people that do.

Have you priced fencing recently? That stuff is expensive. It would be over $1.5k in material costs alone to put the cheapest 4ft chain link around my yard.

The government does all that. But it costs money to maintain the dies and machines they go with in the event the production needs to be restarted. Congress almost always cuts the funding to maintain the production capability 10 years or so after production stops. About 15 years or so after production stops, congress cuts the funds for the replacement equipment. Thus requiring very expensive limited run productions to keep the old fleet in service.