{"id":189178,"date":"2010-05-10T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/10\/the-similarities-to-afghanistan-are-striking\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:10:00","slug":"the-similarities-to-afghanistan-are-striking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/10\/the-similarities-to-afghanistan-are-striking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Similarities to Afghanistan Are Striking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 388px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object id=\"obj_2eb4fd9196994c08a8356a82a2500d72\" class codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0\" width=\"388\" height=\"338\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/applications.fliqz.com\/8a51a1abcb8b439c947c27224e3516b2.swf\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=2eb4fd9196994c08a8356a82a2500d72&amp;permalink=&amp;\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/applications.fliqz.com\/8a51a1abcb8b439c947c27224e3516b2.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"file=2eb4fd9196994c08a8356a82a2500d72&amp;permalink=&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" width=\"388\" height=\"338\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">This is not a substitute for sane or sensible policy<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The army will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/army-to-test-game-changing-gun-in-combat.html?col=1186032310810\">deploying the XM-25 Individual Airburst Weapon to Afghanistan<\/a>, and many good things are expected of it.<\/p>\n<p>I am not at all surprised that they have decided that a personal grenade launcher would be necessary for the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The Soviets came to the same conclusion when they were in Afghanistan, which is why the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AGS-17\">AGS-17 Plamya (Russian:  \u041f\u043b\u0430\u043c\u044f) is a Soviet-designed automatic grenade launcher<\/a> used in Afghanistan to such a degree that the <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/news\/92374786_the-war-in-afghanistan-taking-back-the-infantry-half-kilometer.htm\">unmounted infantry squad was largely built around the weapon<\/a> in the same way that a squad is built around the LMG in US service.<\/p>\n<p>The degree to which our experience in Afghanistan is a rerun of the failed Soviet script is striking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a substitute for sane or sensible policy The army will be deploying the XM-25 Individual Airburst Weapon to Afghanistan, and many good things are expected of it. I am not at all surprised that they have decided that a personal grenade launcher would be necessary for the conflict. The Soviets came to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1025,1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-technology","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}