A plan of New York island, with part of Long Island, Staten Island and east New Jersey, with a particular description of the engagement of the woody heights of Long Island, between Flatbush and Brooklyn, on the 27th, of August 1776.

Little late for Memorial Day.

The LRA is a cult with guns, or maybe an insurgent group with a religious alibi. "Everyone has to carry living water with them [at all times]. In heavy combat the water may tell LRA personnel what to do"

One pixel per death, colored by category (US, civilian, "enemy"), in order.

Who knew? "Under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, over 11,000 Germans and German Americans were selectively detained and interned at the start of World War II. In addition, over 4,500 ethnic Germans were brought to the U.S. from Latin America and detained." (as comparison, 10x as many Japanese-Americans were interned)

"Autumn 1944, and London was under attack from space. Hitler's 'vengeance' rocket, the V-2, was the world's first ballistic missile, and the first man-made object to make a sub-orbital spaceflight. Over 1400 were launched at Britain, with more than 500 striking London. The 13 tonne rocket impacted at over 3000 miles per hour. There was no warning; the missile descended faster than the speed of sound and survivors would only hear the approach and sonic booms after the blast." For reference the next time you read Gravity's Rainbow.

Nice roundup of all of intelligence & media manipulation prior to the invasion. From McClatchy.

Amazing/wrenching collection of photography (incl 250 color pix) from Word War I. Incl article on Churchill saying that American entry prolonged the war.

"Aug 18: Battle Week! Noon. Free." Revolutionary War reenactment in Brooklyn! Yes.

fairly effective Iraq/us war of independence parallel.

US Military running world simulations. Of smaller, country-level sims: "US Army using SEAS to identify potential recruits."

1849: Old Bedlam or Sutler's Store

Incl. mp3 for Invisible Man: "Mm-mmm, Invisible Man, / Ain't it hard to understand? / Now you know it's a shame / And a terrible pity, / They've forgotten your name / In Johnson City / And left you in the Texas of your mind."

'One Friedman Unit = six months ... From Thomas Friedman's repeated use of "the next six months" as the time period in which, "we're going to find out...whether a decent outcome is possible" in the Iraq War.' w/ list of F.U. pronouncementss

GWB achieves near consensus from Scowcroft to Chomsky: he sucks. Good run down of a creaking empire.

"A tiny clipping from a newspaper, sent without comment from a cell in Zagreb to their comrades in Belgrade, was the torch which set the world afire with war in 1914. It reached our meeting place, the cafe Zeatna Moruna, one night in late April."

The Coat of Arms of the USS Donald Cook features missiles as supporters

"If a draft were held today, there would be fewer reasons to excuse a man from service."

sick_fucks (also a bunch of 4Fs)

best comix cover evar.

spying on spies, tracking torture planes, and other art-geography.

'Few are aware that the [Revolutionary] war could have ended that day had it not been for the ‘‘Maryland 400"'

Tracking the movements of planes in and around the 'black world' of western AF bases. Totally amazing. kev: you will love this!

This author just claimed (on NPR) that the Army & CIA monitor the price of an AK-47 in potential hot spots to predict when violence might break out (price jumps -> people are arming up). Anyone have more support for this?

"The museum had to convince the USSR that it was not still a weapon under arms control treaties." Proof: "When the missile returned to the site, it was left on its side for 30 days, w/ holes cut in fuel tanks & nose cone, so that USSR satellites could co

"A network of related websites on historic fortifications and historic naval vessels of North America."

via jgrd

Report from West Point on Qaeda tactics & possible counter-tactics, drawn from Qaeda writings. Contradicts most everything about the GWOT. "The US should avoid direct, large‐scale military action in the Middle East."

"On 4 June 1944, United States Navy Task Group 22.3 captured U-505, the first time a US Navy vessel had captured an enemy at sea since 1815." Currently at Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago

"Tthe most dangerous place was Custer Cty. A total of 13 persons were tried for sedition in Miles City, the county seat" (my grandfather was born there). [via slavin_fpo]

Namesake of most Clarksvilles. Formerly considered one of the great American generals, now a footnote.

"Every evening at 8, buglers close the road which passes under the Memorial & play the Last Post. Ceremony was banned by Germans in WWII, resumed on the night that Ypres was liberated, despite heavy fighting still taking place in other parts of town."

social networking, nation-state style. via idlewords // inexplicably doesn't mention that China claims Taiwan & vice versa.

a long wait for 51 pages of Scanlan's lost Guerilla war issue to load in flash, but worth it. via the Whitney Biennial, for god's sake.

"Dude! I didn't hike from Oberlin for this."