tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post444635725408022932..comments2024-03-18T16:37:26.577-07:00Comments on WAR TARD: The Libyan Rebels and their amazing variety of small arms.War Tardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07695998564986230897noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-17323428336736747332012-10-26T23:00:08.197-07:002012-10-26T23:00:08.197-07:00A great post WT.
A year later, everything you sai...A great post WT.<br /><br />A year later, everything you said about Libya remains true.<br /><br />Wish you'd write more and keep track of these things. I'd pay cash money to subscribe to your newsletter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-49421548932259896432012-06-08T04:32:53.622-07:002012-06-08T04:32:53.622-07:00True the Browning Hi-Power was probably the best p...True the Browning Hi-Power was probably the best pistol of the 20th Century. People seem to ignore it's achievements in favour of the 1911.DerDernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-990832192161180942012-01-18T22:51:39.188-08:002012-01-18T22:51:39.188-08:00Link is broken.Link is broken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-31647972602740627122011-10-24T18:34:45.057-07:002011-10-24T18:34:45.057-07:00"let's face it" ..."let's face it" ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-12579811562473907062011-09-27T19:01:20.821-07:002011-09-27T19:01:20.821-07:00I'd like to suggest that perhaps the best weap...I'd like to suggest that perhaps the best weapon to come out of Belgium was the Browning/FN Hi-Power, aka The Greatest Handgun of the 20th Century. :)J.D. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15147136910096487577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-57550886348341427502011-09-26T11:09:48.572-07:002011-09-26T11:09:48.572-07:00UUUUUUPPPPPPPDDDDDDDAAAAAAATTTTTTTEEEEEEUUUUUUPPPPPPPDDDDDDDAAAAAAATTTTTTTEEEEEEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-56617629763517612442011-09-26T08:28:08.518-07:002011-09-26T08:28:08.518-07:00War Tard, I have the shakes. Withdrawals. I need...War Tard, I have the shakes. Withdrawals. I need you to put up another article so I can be told how to view this fucked up world like the good little sheep that I am. Bah! Bah! Now write, damn you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-92064368070336351602011-09-07T00:18:53.537-07:002011-09-07T00:18:53.537-07:00@Jak Jones said...
Yep Gadafi had wealth and contr...@Jak Jones said...<br />Yep Gadafi had wealth and controlled his people and gave a fair bit to other nations and their independence ambitions - IRA, ANC... you all heard it before. Why AU so tentative<br />Now the people got angry and the rest of the world got sick of playing by Gadafis rule... now control of the people will be from more international forces (minus china - this will get interesting).<br />I will be interested what happens post Gadafi and will the Libyan gravy train (for the ordinary people)start slowing when "democracy" and "capitalism" kicks in.<br />If this sounds a bit tentative on the part of my support of the revolution - maybe.<br />Youth, guns, idealism, and will there be a new new type of dictatorship come into play? - i hope the best for the ordinary Libyans because your going to have to put up with some rightous prats for a while. I hope you get the freedom you have fought hard for.<br />People still uming and ahh about Iraq and oil - this is at least clearer.<br /><br />Thanks Wartard - have been seeing all those g3 and fn on the news and wondering is this the boated stuff from the EU. - Great writing<br />Hey you got any info and role Africom played in this conflict?<br /><br />Take carearknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-47907541575850671702011-09-03T19:54:52.629-07:002011-09-03T19:54:52.629-07:00Libya was debt free. Electricity was free. The Gov...Libya was debt free. Electricity was free. The Govt paid for 50% of your car. Married couples got $50,000 us to buy a house. Petrol was 14Cents a Gallon. Farmers got free land. Libya wanted to move away from the US dollar to the African Dinar when it got paid for oil. Bam. Post rebels first task? A central Bank. Welcome to controlJak Jonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-53771960325932525802011-09-03T08:25:47.113-07:002011-09-03T08:25:47.113-07:00My name is Chris. (Not that this is of much signif...My name is Chris. (Not that this is of much significance of course, but staying anonymous seems impolite.)<br /><br />Thank you for the thoughtful and nice reply.<br /><br />All those requests... that is the curse of being good at what you do.<br /><br /><br />You know, I made that point to other people and often got very negative responses. People misunderstood me as being a Nazi sympathizer or "buying into Nazi propaganda about the 'Herrenrasse'" and bullshit like that.<br /><br />I do think that the good performance of the Wehrmacht is explainable, but not with cultural or let alone genetic reasons.<br /><br />I think that it was the military limitations of the treaty of Versailles that forced the Germans to innovate where their victorious opponents fell into the common trap of preparing for the previous war.<br /><br />I don't know who said that but the following quote says it perfectly, I think: <br />"While victory and success are always preferable, defeat and failure are the better teachers."<br /><br />I think after Versailles it was all "excellence through adversity" for the German army, at least in the first years, before they knew whether they would ever again be able to shake off the limitations they faced.<br /><br />The shock of defeat shook even parts of the old brass awake and for a while they actually used their brains to come up with ideas to make the whole "100 000 soldiers"-army thing work as good as possible.<br />They were more open for innovation than their western counterparts and realized that they had to compensate the (by the times standard) ridiculously small size of the army with superior firepower, mobility, tactics and strategy and that is where the Blitzkrieg came from.<br />And they also cherry picked the stuff that was already good in WW1, like the 'Einsatztaktik'(or however that is spelled).<br /><br />Also of course they made sure that those 100 000 men were the best of the best and where kept in shape while the victors sent most of their battle hardened veterans home after Versailles.<br /><br />Long story short, Versailles forced the Germans to be ahead of their time and denied them the option to stick with the same old, same old as pretty much everybody else did.<br />The only exception where the Russians, losers of WW1 too, who invented paratroopers between the wars for example.<br /><br /><br />By simply dismissing all of that by declaring them nothing more than losers just to pet our ego, we deprive ourselves and future generations of the chance to learn from it.<br /><br /><br />However, thanks for what you do and I really hope you keep it up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-51431563294421515622011-09-03T06:29:19.417-07:002011-09-03T06:29:19.417-07:00Very good and well made point Anon.
Personally, I...Very good and well made point Anon.<br /><br />Personally, I've always had a very healthy respect for the Germans. I see Nazism as a kind of mind virus that took over that country after the humiliation at Versailles. An important lesson in how a proud and ancient culture can be taken over by extremists when it costs a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy bread. I've always respected the German soldier and fighting ability. It took 3 of the most powerful countries in the world to defeat them and that fight took all they had.<br /><br />The Japanese I've only become interested in lately. The cultural and, (let's face it) racial gap there was too great for me when I was a kid studying war and I've often wondered how much of a role that played in the war itself (Would the Americans have nuked fellow Caucasians... probably but they didn't) The Jap mind and Bushido code made it that they had to. Still, it's only lately that I've begun to become fascinated by their culture and what an island, resource poor nation felt they had to do to secure an oil supply.<br /><br />You make a very good point and it's the sort of article I'd like to take a shot at in the future. (I've gotten a lot of emails with article requests in the 10 months since I've started this blog and I wish I could get round to them all.) But alas, money and time are the too great and terrible limiters on human action that they've always been and I'm no exception.<br /><br />Thanks for the heartfelt words and support.War Tardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07695998564986230897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-38717779983502322842011-09-02T20:39:04.505-07:002011-09-02T20:39:04.505-07:00The previous comment was mine and I'd like to ...The previous comment was mine and I'd like to add something:<br /><br />There generally seems to be a lot of history revisionism going on nowadays.<br />Normally when you think of revisionism you think of neo-nazis who try to make Hitler look good in retrospective or stuff like that, but that is not that current phenomenon I'm talking about.<br /><br />I'm talking about "patriotic" Americans (and other English speaking nationals like Brits and Australians) who for some reason are out to take away the last shreds of dignity from the losers of WW2 by including wartime propaganda and ridicule into what they consider official historical canon.<br /><br />They basically replace real history with a Hollywood movie script.<br /><br />What those people don't seem to realize is that by doing so they make their own ancestors look bad too, by basically indirectly saying that they had it easy because they were only fighting enemies that sucked at war and were stupid cowards anyways.<br /><br />If German and Japanese soldiers in WW2 were as inept pushovers for real as they are portrayed as in Hollywood movies, then the allied soldiers who fought them must have sucked pretty hard too. Or how else do you explain the losses they suffered against such obvious bitch-ass losers as the Wehrmacht and the Imperial Japanese Army/Navy?<br /><br />Must have been the total air dominance, numerical superiority and luxurious supply flow those axis pansies enjoyed throughout the war, I guess.<br /><br /><br />To clarify that, I'm not only talking about stupid articles and comments on a comedy site like Cracked. This is a phenomenon I have encountered all over the internet. Also TV series (like "Band Of Brothers" for example) and war movies strangely look more and more like war-time propaganda the longer ago the actual war is. At least some old war movies seemed to make more of an effort to show the human side of the enemy or at least make him menacing by giving him some credit for actually being able to do more than dying, fleeing or surrendering.<br /><br /><br />I know this is off topic in the context of this article and I digressed a lot, but this is something that I noticed lately and I would love if the War Tard might address this in one of his articles one day.<br /><br />Here an interesting article on the subject to show that this isn't just me imaginating things:<br />http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/armies/introduction.aspxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-18101204512118741782011-09-02T19:01:23.056-07:002011-09-02T19:01:23.056-07:00@ War Tard:
Yes, a lot of people believe a lot of...@ War Tard:<br /><br />Yes, a lot of people believe a lot of wrong things about that period.<br /><br />Do you know www.Cracked.com?<br />It is a comedy site that somehow considers itself the internet age's MAD magazine.<br />The authors there pretty often write articles on history and wars (stuff like: "5 tiny nations that kicked ass in war" and so on) and they often are inaccurate or outright full of shit.<br /><br />And even the factual half way correct ones are often terribly biased in the way that when an American or British soldier did something heroic without regard to his own safety it is totally badass and cool. When a Japanese or a German soldier did something like that it is laughable and stupid.<br /><br />Also there is a lot of "The USA singlehandedly won WW2"-nonsense going on there.<br />"Russia? Yeah, they were somewhere in that war too, but what can they possibly have contributed? They weren't even there on D-Day or when the Limeys totally kicked German ass at Dunkirk before swaggering back to Britain!"<br /><br />I have often thought to myself when reading one of those articles (and the horrible comments to them) how much better they could be if they would have somebody like you among the authors.<br />Somebody who knows something about history and war he hasn't just ripped from Wikipedia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-55285919008954568042011-09-02T18:01:25.836-07:002011-09-02T18:01:25.836-07:00HK are of course, German. My bad.
I call it the &...HK are of course, German. My bad.<br /><br />I call it the "reverse Hitler mistake". A lot of people to this day think Hitler was German and not Austrian.War Tardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07695998564986230897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-91178736772227774732011-09-01T12:45:17.069-07:002011-09-01T12:45:17.069-07:00How come Gaddafi hasn't pwned these faggots ye...How come Gaddafi hasn't pwned these faggots yet?<br /><br />A brigade of snipers could have halfed their numbers for fun.<br /><br />Or is that the plan?<br /><br />Saddam always looked a bit shaky, but I thought Gaddafi would fuck shit up in Tripoli.<br /><br />What gives?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-52183457774172336212011-08-30T05:01:58.689-07:002011-08-30T05:01:58.689-07:00since when the HK is Austrian?since when the HK is Austrian?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-78019437150378454632011-08-30T00:53:28.094-07:002011-08-30T00:53:28.094-07:00Those Libyan rebels with all that shooting in the ...Those Libyan rebels with all that shooting in the air and their pissant combat spray shooting make me change channels. Pathetic. But we here in Aussie were informed the other night by all TV commercial channels " The libyan rebels had no outside help......except nato airstrikes" . Yeah right. Daffy had em on the ropes.Jak Jonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-19384392348136973092011-08-29T16:28:15.962-07:002011-08-29T16:28:15.962-07:00Another rifle that seems to be appearing a lot is ...Another rifle that seems to be appearing a lot is the Mannlicher-Carcano. Not unusual when you find out that Libya used to be an Italian colony at one time.Wraith556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-32981026197401756262011-08-29T02:16:49.332-07:002011-08-29T02:16:49.332-07:00"The AK-47 is Africa's post birth abortio..."The AK-47 is Africa's post birth abortion kit."<br /><br />About as politically incorrect a fact as I can ever imagine someone making. Funny as hell because it's true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-62940142184196030392011-08-29T01:27:35.498-07:002011-08-29T01:27:35.498-07:00Two WarTard posts in eight days - woot!Two WarTard posts in eight days - woot!MountainCaddynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-59557249735066022822011-08-29T00:55:56.373-07:002011-08-29T00:55:56.373-07:00I have seen FN2000s and G36s aswell.I have seen FN2000s and G36s aswell.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02291622298961270279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-71558337806645161082011-08-28T03:27:04.323-07:002011-08-28T03:27:04.323-07:00Yeah I was wondering myself why in every nicely co...Yeah I was wondering myself why in every nicely composed shot of a couple of rebels trying to look hardcore you never saw two together carrying weapons of the same caliber. It was always AK-47 AND FN, or AK-74 AND G3. It just seemed weird and then I wondered if it was some kind of messed up deliberate thing. 'You carry the spray and pray AK and I'll take the double tappin' FN Hamid. We'll have calibers for all occasions'. Totally with you on the G3 too Mr Tard. Now that's craftsmanship.Oblonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901391575187311058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-82148642354667320712011-08-28T02:56:00.867-07:002011-08-28T02:56:00.867-07:00And don't forget the Heckler & Koch G36. R...And don't forget the Heckler & Koch G36. Really nice lightweight piece of German engineering.HandKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111395980737563171.post-80122171418087051762011-08-28T00:38:53.512-07:002011-08-28T00:38:53.512-07:00Fuck me War Tard.
I've been following this bl...Fuck me War Tard.<br /><br />I've been following this blog for a year but never commented. But seriously, this post had me spraying Saturday night beer all over my keyboard. Hilarious and tragic all at the same time.<br /><br />Keep it up man.Zachnoreply@blogger.com