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Military Dogs Play Roles in Iraq and Afghanistan

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The most famous example of military dogs is the Vietnam dogs who faithfully served American soldiers and then were abandoned to unknown fates after we left the country. But the grand tradition continues in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tags: afghanistan military military force iraq dogs. I don't like it.

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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

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He tells, for example, of sitting close by a fox den, and watching a raccoon walk past it with a look of acknowledgement. He’s somewhat of a devotee of the tracking and bushwork guru Tom Brown, Jr.) The coon wasn’t scared, McMullan explains, because it can hold its own with a fox in a fight.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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Larks, for example. Cocker presents Eurasian Larks as a prime example of one of the recurring themes of the book, our culture’s tendency to cherish a bird in poetry and myth and to simultaneously exploit, even ravish, the actual bird. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines.

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Use it or lose it?

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During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome leader. And the last of the facts that I listed is rather an example why that support is, well, qualified. But by the same token, it isn’t necessarily a good idea either. Shot a rhino?

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). The Flame Bowerbird, for example. The birds Rist grabbed included Resplendent Quetzals, Spangled Cotingas, Red-ruffed Fruitcrows, and Birds of Paradise collected by Alfred Russel Wallace himself. Mostly adult males.

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Should is not a Solution

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By way of example form the world of politics, what could possibly be wrong with deposing a murderous monster of dictator and replacing him with a free and fair democracy? The Iraq War was a demonstration of the most dangerous and beguiling aspect of the should – the belief that what should be is so obvious that a nudge will make it so.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive.

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