The Art of War
From Wikipedia
The Art of War is a highly influential ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu.
Red Storm Rising (1986) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 3 - Correlation of Forces
MOSCOW, R.S.F.S.R.
"How are we to go about it?" Rozhkov asked.
"Red Storm," the Marshal replied simply. Red Storm was the plan for a mechanized attack into West Germany and the Low Countries. Constantly updated for changes in the force structures of both sides, it called for a two-to three-week campaign commencing after a rapid escalation of tension between East and West. Despite this, in accordance with standard Soviet strategic doctrine, it called for strategic surprise as a precondition for success, and the use of conventional weapons only.
"At least they aren't talking about atomic arms." Rozhkov grunted. Other plans with other names applied to different scenarios, including many for the use of tactical and even strategic nuclear arms, something no one in uniform wished to contemplate. Despite all the saber-rattling of their political masters, these professional soldiers knew all too well that the use of nuclear arms made only for ghastly uncertainties. "And the maskirovka?"
"In two parts. The first is purely political, to work against the United States. The second part, immediately before the war begins, is from KGB. You know it, from KGB Group Nord. We reviewed it two years ago."
Rozhkov grunted. Group Nord was an ad hoc committee of KGB department chiefs, first assembled by then-chief of the KGB Yuri Andropov in the mid-1970s. Its purpose was to research means of splitting the NATO alliance, and in general to conduct political and psychological operations aimed at undermining Western will. Its specific plan to shake the NATO military and political structure in preparation for a shooting war was Nord's proudest example of legerdemain. But would it work?
The two senior officers shared an ironic look. Like most professional soldiers, they distrusted spies and all their plans.
excerpts, see also:
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/01/today-is-01252024.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:42 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Today is 01/25/2024
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5696852/
Travelers
S1.E1
Travelers
Episode aired Oct 17, 2016
From 7/1/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Memorandum on the Need for Improving Procedures for Clearing Incoming Travelers at Ports of Entry ) To 1/25/2024 ( TODAY , Thursday ) is 20296 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/28/2021 ( ) is 20296 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 06:13 AM May 28, 2021
I wonder what those sissy-boys on local live-tv news will do if they ever feel their love for bearded Jesus Christ is rejected?
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 06:24 AM May 28, 2021
That little-guy is sitting there wondering if bearded Jesus Christ will ever let *him* watch Jesus sit on toilet to tinkle His Divine urine, instead of other way around
MAYBE that's what's so appealing to those little guys of Jesus Christ - as a reward for loving the bearded face of Jesus Christ, one never has to urinate again, in that afterlife "up there" in the clouds.
There has to be perq.'s, right?
Otherwise, you're a SIMPLETON!
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 06:33 AM May 28, 2021
Not that my coverage of the so-called "UFO" reports in the lameoid mainstream-media will make any difference.
Those Lameoids of "UFO" cults are wacko nutjobs just the same as Jesus Christ bible-thumpers or any other fairy-tale religion
The REASON is that your life is pathetic and pointless and meaningless.
You're desperate for escape
So you cling to the leg of Jesus Christ or E.T.
Even when he tinkles for you.
[excerpt ends - by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:42 PM January 25, 2024]
excerpts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Hvozd
Viktor Hvozd
From Wikipedia
Victor Ivanovych Hvozd (24 May 1959 – 28 May 2021) was a Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and a Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.
Career
From 1981, served in the Military Intelligence in the Trans-Baikal and Carpathian Military Districts as a translator of a separate reconnaissance battalion, commander of a reconnaissance company of a motorized rifle regiment, commander of a reconnaissance-airborne company of a separate reconnaissance battalion, officer of the intelligence center of the intelligence directorate of the military district.
Since 1992 — an officer of the Intelligence Center of the Intelligence Directorate at the HQ of the Carpathian Military District. In 1993–1995 participated in peacekeeping operations as part of the UN peacekeeping mission in former Yugoslavia.
Death
On May 28, 2021, Hvozd died after drowning during a scuba diving at a depth of several tens of meters at a resort in Dahab, Egypt
From 10/25/1994 ( ) To 5/28/2021 ( ) is 9712 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/5/1992 ( ) is 9712 days
From 8/7/1986 ( "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy ) To 5/28/2021 ( ) is 12713 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/23/2000 ( premiere USA film "The Art of War" ) is 12713 days
From 5/28/2021 ( ) To 2/24/2022 ( Putin sends his military into Ukraine and his generals to get killed ) is 272 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/1/1966 ( the Charles Whitman shooting in Austin, Texas ) is 272 days
From 12/25/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 5/28/2021 ( ) is 10747 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/6/1995 ( Bill Clinton, 42nd President of USA: Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 660 - Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 ) is 10747 days
From 11/7/2006 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, from my official United States of America Veterans Affairs psychiatric-hospital documents, the final appointment with the psychiatrist ) To 5/28/2021 ( ) is 5316 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/23/1980 ( premiere USA film "The Shining" ) is 5316 days
IMDb
The Shining
Quotes
Jack Torrance: Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight, isn't it?
[laughs maniacally]
Lloyd: Yes, it is, Mr. Torrance.
IMDb
The Shining
Quotes
Delbert Grady: I feel you will have to deal with this matter in the harshest possible way, Mr. Torrance.
Jack Torrance: There's nothing I look forward to with greater pleasure, Mr. Grady.
The Simpsons
Season 7 Episode 22
"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'"
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Apr 28, 1996
Quotes
Bart: And then, he claimed he was the one who turned cats and dogs against each other. Why is he always making up those crazy stories?
Homer: Maybe it's time we put Grampa in a home.
Lisa: You already put him in a home.
Bart: Maybe it's time we put him in one where he can't get out.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105112/releaseinfo/
IMDb
Patriot Games
Release info
United States June 5, 1992
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160009/releaseinfo/
IMDb
The Art of War
Release info
United States August 23, 2000 (premiere)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Russian invasion of Ukraine
From Wikipedia
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014. The invasion became the largest attack on a European country since World War II. It is estimated to have caused tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties and hundreds of thousands of military casualties. By June 2022, Russian troops occupied about 20% of Ukrainian territory. About 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. Extensive environmental damage caused by the war, widely described as an ecocide, contributed to food crises worldwide.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-military-weakened-lloyd-austin-ukraine-1849058
Newsweek
Russia's Military 'Badly Weakened' As War Drags On: Pentagon
Dec 03, 2023 at 12:04 PM EST
Russia's military is "badly weakened" from the grueling war in Ukraine, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has said, as Russian and Ukrainian troops face another second winter of fighting.
After 21 months of all-out war, "the Russian military has been badly weakened," Austin said during an address at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday.
The many months of attritional warfare has exacted a high cost on both Russia and Ukraine, but Western analysts and governments have suggested the conflict has torn apart much of Russia's military strength. Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment via email.
"Russia has lost nearly half the combat effectiveness of its army," Admiral Tony Radakin, the head of the U.K.'s armed forces, said in early July.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/smith/unthinkable_2.html
tru TV
By Rachel Pergament
The Letter
It was a mild October night in Union. Susan had been driving around for the last hour, trying to calm herself. She drove along Highway 49 and followed the signs to John D. Long Lake. Before driving to the lake on this evening, she had never before been there. Susan preferred to take her sons to the pond at Foster Park, which was closer to her home. At Foster Park, Susan and her sons would feed breadcrumbs to the ducks.
Once she arrived at the shore of John D. Long Lake, Susan drove across a portion of the seventy-five-foot boat ramp and parked in the middle of the ramp. The ramp was unpaved and consisted of gravel and stones. Susan sat quietly behind the wheel of her 1990 burgundy Mazda Protege, listening to the sounds of her two young sons sleeping. Michael, her oldest son had celebrated his third birthday two weeks earlier and Alex was fourteen months old. Susan was twenty-three, with long, sandy blond hair that she tied in a ponytail. She wore wire-rimmed glasses and was in the best physical shape she had been in since before becoming pregnant with Michael.
Susan shifted the Mazda into neutral and felt the car slowly begin to roll down the remaining length of the boat ramp. The car only traveled a few yards before Susan stepped on the brake. With a shift tug, Susan pulled the emergency hand brake, stopping the car from further rolling forward. She opened her door and stepped out of the car. Susan stood outside of her car, on the boat ramp, on the banks of John D. Long Lake and thought about suicide. Susan looked around and saw only black. The lake was not illuminated and she stood alone thinking about her life. The darkness and loneliness of the deserted lake mirrored how Susan felt.
Susan wanted relief from her loneliness and the problems in her life. Susan and her husband, David, were in the middle of a divorce and her boyfriend, Tom Findlay, had just rejected her the week before. She wanted to commit suicide, but she did not want her sons to suffer. Susan believed if she killed her sons first and then committed suicide, that her sons would suffer less, rather than if she committed suicide and left them on their own. Yet, something was stopping her from surrendering to her depression and loneliness. She did not want to commit suicide, what she wanted was relief from all the stresses and burdens that overwhelmed her. She felt that her life was filled with loss and rejection, and that the responsibilities of being a single mother were overwhelming.
Susan's next decision will never be forgotten. Attempts to explain it will always fall short and continue to leave the question "why?" open to further speculation.
Susan Smith released the emergency brake and softly closed the driver's side door. Michael and Alex were asleep in the back seat, strapped into their car seats. As the car drifted into John D. Long Lake, the headlights were on. The car entered the water slowly and did not submerge immediately. Instead, it remained on the surface, bobbing peacefully, while slowly filling with water.
Susan watched the car submerge into the lake. She turned away from the sinking car and began to run toward a small house. The story that Susan would tell would capture the nation's sympathy. Susan's story would also raise doubts in some and cause a community to question some of its own citizens, based solely on the race of those citizens.
After the truth was revealed, many would try to imagine the thoughts running through Susan Smith's head the night of October 25, 1994, when she took the lives of her children.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 12/23/06 1:21 PM
I might have maintained a dual-status as an active member of the U.S. Marshals. That would make sense.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/bennett022398.htm
washingtonpost.com
Clinton Team Picks Apart Jones's Life
By Peter Baker and Lorraine Adams
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, February 23, 1998; Page A01
The 11th-floor New York Avenue law offices with a strategic view of Washington's majestic landmarks are a fair distance from the one-stoplight town of Lonoke, Ark. But these days there is little about Lonoke's most famous native daughter that is not known in the polished suites of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
Piece by piece, President Clinton's top-dollar legal team has taken apart the life of Paula Jones, examining topics from her job history to her possible sex partners. They turned up a check she bounced when reimbursing the Arkansas government for personal calls made on state phones. They found previous employers who fired her for tardiness or other reasons. They scoured personnel records and discovered she typed only 24 words per minute and scored 121 out of 174 on an Arkansas state clerical examination.
Venturing into more salacious territory, they interviewed as many as a half-dozen men who claimed to have had sex with her, including some who said they met her casually at parties or bars and then engaged in quick encounters, according to people close to the case. One former boss signed an affidavit alleging that she pursued him at work and that they slept together. After their short-lived relationship ended, he fired her -- in part, he said, because she dressed too provocatively.
Now that the lawyers essentially have finished gathering evidence and made the final pretrial effort to get Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit thrown out, a picture has emerged of who the president's defense team is and where it is headed. Led by veterans of past high-profile political cases, the Clinton legal squad is following an aggressive and political risky strategy centered on Jones herself. After all the attention focused on a president linked by fact or rumor to a host of women -- most recently and most perilously Monica S. Lewinsky -- Clinton's lawyers hope to turn the spotlight with blinding intensity on the life of his most persistent accuser.
"Does her story make sense? It's always been our position to point out why it doesn't make sense," said Mitchell S. Ettinger, a Clinton attorney. "No one's going to argue they weren't in a room together. And you don't have to call her a complete liar. But everything she's said -- about her injuries to her job, her reactions to this, her reasons for filing suit -- it's not going to add up."
"Brother's Little Helper" [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate on FOX: 3-Oct-1999
(from internet transcript)
Crowd: Dingers! Dingers! [McGwire hits the long ball] Oooh!
McGwire: [takes printout] Yoink!
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
01/29/07 6:10 AM
Why do I have detailed "memories" of the woman from South Carolina, Susan Smith, her drowned her kids in her car? Why would I have the "memories" that I have about that craziness?
01/29/07 6:30 AM
Something feels very wrong about this. Was I part of the investigation team?
She reported to police, according to sources, on 10/25/94 that she had lost her kids in a carjacking.
From 9/26/1971 ( Susan Smith ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 8/7/1986 ( "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 12985 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/22/2001 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Seven Days"::"Born in the USSR" ) is 12985 days
From 7/3/1938 ( Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President of USA: Address at the Dedication of the Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ) To 10/25/1994 ( Susan Smith kills her two children and dumps them in her car in the John D. Long Lake near Union South Carolina AND from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: hours later discovered by me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and reported to other officials in active investigation ) is 20568 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 20568 days
From 11/11/1969 ( premiere USA film "Doppelganger" ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/25/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 11/4/1962 ( John F. Kennedy, 35th President of USA: Statement by the President on the Conclusion of Atmospheric Nuclear Tests in the Pacific ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10831 days
From 2/24/2022 ( ) To 11/4/2024 ( Susan Smith eligible for parole in South Carolina ) is 984 days
984 = 492 + 492
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/9/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Devil in the Dark" ) is 492 days
From 5/22/1991 ( premiere USA film "Backdraft" ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 11236 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/7/1996 ( Bill Clinton, 42nd President of USA: Remarks on the Possible Discovery of Life on Mars and an Exchange With Reporters ) is 11236 days
From 5/2/1945 ( the Berlin city garrison surrenders to Soviets ) To 8/24/2001 ( premiere USA film "Ghosts of Mars" & the Microsoft antitrust proceedings by Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ) is 20568 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 20568 days
From 4/21/1926 ( Britain's Queen Elizabeth II - from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my biological genetic paternal grandmother ) To 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 20568 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 20568 days
https://www.britannica.com/event/2022-Russian-invasion-of-Ukraine
Britannica
Russia-Ukraine War
Last Updated: Jan 7, 2024
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Although Russian forces made significant gains in the first days of combat, Ukrainian defenders rebuffed attempts to seize Kyiv and other major cities and were soon launching counterattacks at Russian positions.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 10:36 PM Pacific-time USA Thursday 01/25/2024
