Ralph Kinney Bennett: November 2004 Archives
Remembering a Head-Turning, Neck-Snapping Year for Cars
It's been a half a century now, but I can still feel the excitement of October 1954, when Detroit was revealing its 1955 model cars. In those days the fall introduction of new car models was always a big...
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Let's Talk Turkey
From the low peasant to the lord, The Turkey smokes on every board. -- John Gay's Fables ca. 1700 This Thanksgiving Day, Lord willing, I will be at a table with my wife in our daughter's home in Lexington,...
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A Casualty of the Watched War
Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity. -- EZEKIEL 9:5 What would I do? In a mosque. In Fallujah. With the battle still ringing in my ears. With my...
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Fill 'Her Up... With Nitro
I'm pretty attentive to my cars. I tend to keep them a long time and try to keep them running well. But even I have to admit I don't do a good job of checking my tire pressure. Sure,...
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High Explosive Chess in Fallujah
There was a very telling piece of video shown on one of the cable stations on the second day of the battle for Fallujah. Taken from an aircraft over the city, it showed a laser-guided bomb landing at a...
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Technique and Technology in Fallujah
"Darkness is a friend to the skilled infantryman" -- B. H. Liddell Hart, Thoughts on War For the Islamofascists, who for months have held sway in the headlines with car bombs, kidnappings and beheadings, these will not be good...
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The Challenge - and Puzzle - of Falluja
"Never do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it; avoid a battlefield he has reconnoitered and studied and, with even more reason, ground that he has fortified and where he is entrenched."--...
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