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Armed Forces of the World: This page has a lot of info on the different militaries around the world and links to official web servers. Military Libraries: A great listing of different Library services maintained by different military organizations. US Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable): A web page with information on USMC MEU SOCs. COIN Manual: This is an excellent online manual on South African Military techniques dealing with counter insurgency. It deals with infantry operations, very good. South African Military: An excellent web page with several resources. Special Operations Manuals: These are actual declassified Army manuals located online. Their biggest problem is, like most military manuals, they are incredibly boring, but full of good info if you have toothpicks to hold open your eyes. The CIA's Official Web Page: This has excellent information on current world data. Follow the links to publications for an excellent review of different countries around the world. Army Training and Doctrine: This web page has several on line manuals and a great deal of information. MILNET: A great source of information for writers because it contains a great deal of information about the military and is designed for writers. It details current weapons and some under development. It also has some great links to governmental data bases. The British Army Homepage: This is the British Army's official web page. Well done and informative. Don't forget to take the Challenge! United States Marine Corps Official Web Page: How could I not put this one here! Has a massive amount of good info. It even has some online doctrine manuals. Special Operations: This link has a lot of great info on special operations groups from Marine Recon to Soviet Spetsnaz. Barking Spider: An excellent online library of jokes. The Dilbert Web Page: What more needs be said? The Funny Zone: Another excellent library of jokes. Foxtrot Web Page: One of my favorites. Garfield's Corner: One of my favorite cats. Calvin and Hobbes: This is truelly one of my favoire sites. User Friendly: An excellent comic strip for computer geeks. The Big Gap: This doesn't change often but I love it because it is about Marines and civilians. Guild of Avalon Message Board: for members to plan get togethers and chat. Guild of Avalon's Home Page: Info on one of the older Ultima Online Guilds.
Sometimes it is frightening at how similar such agencies as CNN and the BBC are to such news agencies as North Korea and the Chinese who don't really recognize left and right wing. I think it is very important to read both sides of the story. You can get a gist of how governments want thier people to react. In many ways news is a way of controlling populations. Hard line dictatorships go to an obvious extreme. CNN has impressed me time and time again with their biased, incomplete and sometimes downright fraudulent news stories. Sometimes you just have to read between the lines and listen to the propaganda of both sides. . . It is my belief that people are unable to write an unbiased news story. It is up to the reader to try and figure out where the bias is coming from and make their own decisions about the subject. CNN News: For depressing news about how the world is going down the tubes fast. . . BBC New: Another agencies that sometimes tells much more of the story than CNN but is as equally biased sometimes. North Korea's Official News: Talk about biased! But if you read between the lines it is very informative. China's News: Considering that more people speak Chinese than English it is a good idea to keep appraised on what is going on in China. Serbia's News Agency: Another biased news agency but still interesting. |