Nosewich? ;) jk many of my TBS classmates were alums.

I thought it was odd that Grossman cited Soldier of Fortune articles. His comparing shooting someone in the face with ejaculating on someone's face kind of lost me.

Gypsy dildo punks and the World Crime League!

Depends on the island they’re from but Tagalog more common. Having been a Spanish colony there are many loan words which might give you that impression. Then having been an American colony English is widely known.

They had reached and shelled California as early as Feb 1942.

Sure is inconvenient that the Japanese want everyone to forget about the Rape of Nanking, Bataan Death March, etc.

Why was that unfortunate? Would you have preferred the IJA have gotten the advanced weapon tech?

Cross contamination of Foxtrot Alpha from Gawker/Jezebel.

Why do you continue to write articles about a subject and people you obviously think of as the lumpen proletariat? This article would've been more interesting without your snarky comments belittling the military.

I don’t know why she wants to write articles about a subject and people she has such obvious disdain for. I was hoping with the demise of Phase Zero she’d stop.

Does this mean Phase Zero is done too? Good.

And people wonder why we have a Marine Corps and why Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, etc have asked us for help in developing theirs.

The Philippines has filed a suit against China this year. PRC keeps asking them to drop the case and negotiate directly. Probably because they know UNCLOS will not support the cow tongue.

And PRC keeps asking the Philippines to drop its UNCLOS suit they filed in July and discuss it directly with them. Probably because they know they’ll lose.

Best theme song from David Shire.

Where’s Walter Matthau and Pelham 123?

Gee while we have Americans who want to give up on amphibious warfare and disband the Corps looks like someone else is building theirs.

Now that you brought it up. It reminds of why if any branch is more relevant it is the Marines. Simply because as you say the threat of a major land war is minimal which means the most prevalent conflicts will be small emergent crisis that require compact forces. Thus an expeditionary combined arms sea based force is…

You’re still focusing on Europe. We’re not worried about China or the Norks reaching Europe. It’s little island nations etc near them that we are obligated to defend. Believe it or not we have allies there. No one is seriously concerned about an attack on CONUS.