Questions

The other day I was somewhat startled to encounter a couple of ***?rbians who had some ***?irly surprising opinions of the US and the recent military conflict in the area. For example:
1. They claimed the US had started the conflict.
2. They claimed that the US was the aggressor and the bully
3. They claimed that Milosovich was not captured and on trial, ****? this was only a fiction created by our lying media
4. They claimed that no European nations had ***?ked for US ***.stance
5. They claimed that ***?rbia had never done anything wrong, even in attacking its neighbors, because ***?rbians are a proud ***?ople
6. They said there was no ****?h thing ***? ethnic cleansing, except against the ***?rbians
7. They claimed that the reason the US attacked ***?rbia was to
set up strategically located bases so they could later attack Russia from ***?rbia.
8. They saw no problems with trying to ***?ttle 500 year old grievances with a war since ***?rbians are a proud ***?ople.

Do you have any comments, opinions ?
- hound9_4

First category, ****?d contemporary ***?ntasy like the golden compass.

Second category, some military memoirs or fiction from a soldier’s (prefferably not american, just getting sick of the constant glorification) point of view.

First one to answer both thoroughly with ****?d ****?ks (I’ll look at the first few pages on amazon) get’s best answer.
- John S

Just any movies like Black Hawk Down. Related to Military and lots of action =P Thanks! Dont have to me non fiction.
- School

EXAMPLES IN FICTION I CAN THINK OF:
*Noonain Singh Khan ( Captain Kirk’s Nemsis)
* ***?rpento (Cobra’s leader)
- jason b

Is there a ***?curity force which has immunity from Law?Like Dalta Force for example?
In this novel i am reading “Deception Point”By Dan Brown,it reads:
“Presidential Decision Directive 25 (PDD 25) grants Delta Force soldiers .freedom
from all legal accountability,. including exception from the 1876 Posse
Comitatus Act, a statute imposing criminal ***?nalties for anyone using the
military for ***?rsonal ***?in, domestic law enforcement, or unsanctioned covert
operations. ”

Is it true or just fiction?
- Ali

I am working on a script I ****?t it to be a science fiction classic and I love movies ****?h ***? Event ****?izon and Aliens

The script starts in the endless abyss of space. “Camera pans out from a single star ***? it does thousands more stars can be ***?en, space except for the alien masses of rock is empty and devoid of life. ***? the view of the stars expands we ***?e a superior star ****?p appear. Behind is a massive whirl of stars and on the event ****?izon of the wormhole is the black darkness the ****?p has come from. This superior star ****?p ***? the camera expands appears ever smaller in the universe.” script extract

The ****?p is carrying military ***?rsonnel along with space tourists they are desperate to ***?e beyond our universe and colonated space. some of the military ****?ted more than just a ride on the space elevator and could not afford the trip so signed up in the military. The ****?p encounters a core orbital platform devoid of life. On a 28 day depressurising cycle (every 28 days everything
gets blown out into space. They discover licks of plasma throughout the ****?p and that according to the logs this platform is billions of years old. They would dock and take the platform back to Earth, ****? our character ****?ts to ***?e more of Space. The plasma synced creatures attack and they learn of technology so devestating it threatens the very existence of their universe
Do you like it or are you being sarcastic?
- LifelessSpace

Making this ****?d question into an attack of Condi Rice is a fiction that attempts to change the subject and take the heat off of Bush and his ***?iled Iraq policy and ***?ilure to change
course. Voters pay the salaries of White House fiction writers — the same who also changed Kerry’s comments about BUSH not working hard in school and not learning and getting US stuck in Iraq into a ****?r on the military. ***?lse and stupid ****? Fox News is sure trying to create something. Does Karl Rove write this stuff?
- murphy

or once have been. i’m ***?king this because i was watching a science fiction movie a while ago where it’s many, many years into the ***?ture and they can contact aliens and all that ****?d stuff. well also in the movie 95% of the population was military trained. you kmow trained to do this. trained to do that. trained to kill. and alll that stuff, and in one part of the movie there were some 7 year olds beiing trained to kill and fight. they had to attack each other……sparring? i guess that’s what you would call it. welll back to my question, so do you think it is possible?
you have a ****?d point “thomas V” i didn’t think about them. ****? i meant 95% of the world. not just one country. ??
- ****?hael

If science and space exploration continue on the path it has been, it is a very real possibility that we may terraform and colonize planets other than Earth. It would be possible that conflict may develop between these planets similar to the way conflict erupts between countries on Earth.

Do you think a space-based military would be created to respond to this sort of thing? A common theme in science fiction is that modern day navies will evolve into fleets of ****?ps in space, and a space Marine ground force that gets deployed to the planets under conflict. For example the UNSC (United Nations Space Command) and the UNSC Marine Corps.

Do you think this sort of thing will happen? I say it would, judging from how scientific progress has a tendency to chase after science fiction. We already have projects in the works to “futurize” soldiers, ****?h ***? the ***?ture Force Warrior program and exoskeleton battlesuits.

What do you think?.
- -

Every year I give my ***?ther a paperback ***? a stocking stuffer, ****? I’m stumped for a ****?d ****?k this year. Can you give a recommendation?

He is a 70-something retired military man with very conservative values, so nothing too racy, minimal bad language. He tends to like historical novels — he was a Michener ***?n, for example. I ****?t to give him something which is a ***?n read and ***?irly ****?d quality literature or interesting non-fiction, ****? nothing overtly political or polarizing. So no Bill O’Reilly, no “Left Behind,” etc.

Previous ****?ks that went over well were “Cold Mountain” and “Memoirs of a Geisha”. An Oliver Sacks ****?k went over like a lead balloon, though.

Thanks for any suggestions!
- RayF