PavelKirilovich In reply to FredaSurgenor [2019-02-15 20:24:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for making your work publically accessible; very much appreciated! Excellent gallery so far.

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FredaSurgenor In reply to PavelKirilovich [2019-02-15 22:11:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to GARDENINGBLOBS [2017-01-31 23:01:03 +0000 UTC]

Yes, there is a limited scale of issue SSh-36 Amoeba cover produced; it is generally seen only on officers, most famously on a regimental command staff. If I remember correctly a handful are later seen used by combat engineers in the early 1941 timeframe. They're superseded by MKKs (camouflage coveralls) with large hoods designed to be worn over later pattern helmets where necessary.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to danUK86 [2016-10-12 23:57:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the gorgeous landscapes. They're my way of exploring rural scenes I won't be able to see in person for a few years yet.

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danUK86 In reply to PavelKirilovich [2016-10-13 00:05:51 +0000 UTC]

'Tis a pleasure, this is why I share my images

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PavelKirilovich In reply to sheorun [2016-02-24 21:11:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your artistic efforts! Truly phenomenal stuff.

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sheorun In reply to PavelKirilovich [2016-02-25 08:57:08 +0000 UTC]

I will try my best to keep it up

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PavelKirilovich In reply to Astalo [2015-08-17 00:10:30 +0000 UTC]

You do fantastic work man; it's not exactly a hardship to follow.  

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PavelKirilovich In reply to AndreaSilva60 [2015-08-04 16:37:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the work you've done; your WW1 illustrations are superb. I work in public historical interpretation at the moment and your gas mask sketch for example would be a wonderful teaching tool: keep doing what you're doing, you're doing it right. That you represent combatants who are not as well covered in the English language literature as the British, French, Germans, or Americans is particularly good to see! Great work man, great work.

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AndreaSilva60 In reply to PavelKirilovich [2015-08-04 17:24:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, your kind comment matters a lot to me, because you have hit the mark of what I'm doing. I have had  so much from the web, so I try in my small way to contribute to the general flow of knowledge.  See you on DA.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to tuomaskoivurinne [2012-10-15 13:43:24 +0000 UTC]

Hey awesome, thanks mate.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to oro-elui [2012-09-30 02:34:38 +0000 UTC]

No worries mate; thanks for your work!

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PavelKirilovich In reply to Pajunen [2012-09-20 15:15:28 +0000 UTC]

Not a problem mate; your gallery is truly outstanding stuff. As my girlfriend said: "Oh, Pajunen. Where's he from? Oh, Finland. Of course. He has too many pretty photographs to be from anywheres else." (She's under the impression all beautiful landscapes come from Finland. I think she might be right, perkele.)

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Pajunen In reply to PavelKirilovich [2012-09-20 15:25:58 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I see that you know some Finnish.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to Pajunen [2012-09-20 15:51:41 +0000 UTC]

Only the critical phraseology. I find I get along well with many Finns and that's where I learned some language; my theory is that both Finns and Canadians know what real winter, real alcohol, and really good looking women are, and thus have a lot in common.

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Pajunen In reply to PavelKirilovich [2012-09-20 16:21:26 +0000 UTC]

You're right about that!

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PavelKirilovich In reply to mjranum [2011-06-22 13:43:36 +0000 UTC]

This is pretty good stuff. "FM" here has a valid point about Kilcullen and Nagl's (mostly the latter's) solution to counterinsurgency problems, but there just isn't a fix other than that. "The social sciences aren't mature enough, like chemistry or physics" completely ignores the key basis of the social sciences; that you are dealing with human beings and need to be mentally flexible, because it will never be a certain thing. Our implementation of what Maximus criticized as 'social sciences' will probably be lacking, but at least the attempt will have been made to identify with the locals, something distinctly lacking in our approach until rather recently. If one reads Nagl, rather than skim-reads him as FM appears to have, he would note that Nagl's concepts and his mesh together well. FM speaks of the "Home Field Advantage" and the need for a 'struggling global hegemon' (US) to not implement neo-colonialist policies, and to be aware of what the use of US language and actions in Iraq looks like to the rest of the world (like the Senate voting whether or not to partition Iraq, a theoretically sovereign nation)... and had he read Nagl, even just Nagl's most prominent work, he'd note Nagl's attitude towards Malaya: it was a successful counterinsurgency, but only because the British were willing to relinquish control to the Malayans after helping them build a stable, non-communist government. It took twenty years. We have the same goals in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially Iraq where the strategic objective was 'regime change' - we come in, we kick shit around, we leave victorious - Our actions however have been almost singly designed to void indigenous trust in us, thus obviating any legitimacy we might have had.

FM doesn't seem to have anything to say about the enormous tactical problems we've come up against running COIN, many of which are (unlike most tactical problems), actually things the enemy has absolutely no say in. He probably has some good points regarding governance and so on in the US, I'm not familiar enough with that but I've been there enough times to recognize the "sheeple" school of thought.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to Raphael-Ben-Dor [2010-05-16 03:26:11 +0000 UTC]

Quite welcome mate; it's been a pleasure browsing your galleries.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to mjranum [2010-04-13 23:34:29 +0000 UTC]

I was thinking the same thing. Fortunately, the Wehrmacht had the same issue uniform with more politically palatable insignias.

Appropriate model (Ulya? Gods, that'd be too hot) cutting her way out of Soviet tanker overalls / US / Commonwealth tanker overalls would be similarly fun. Hell, Ulya even has cheekbones like the model in that link.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to mjranum [2010-03-26 01:13:13 +0000 UTC]

Shit happens when you let "the shadows" run everything. Operations have gotten better now thanks to the committment of regular forces; special forces are highly overrated in a number of instances. I would never want to fight them myself, I'm not saying they're not good, but they cannot bring victory on their own. This is roughly what we tried in Afghanistan. Unfortunately it failed because with the conventional forces footprint, we can't bail them out of the fire when they do something ridiculously daring that brings mission success.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to mjranum [2010-03-12 04:49:17 +0000 UTC]

Do it. Do it now.

I know a guy who has a TT-33 (1940 manufacture) that would be excellent for that, but getting firearms across borders is insane - trying it with a handgun would be almost impossible given my government's stance that firearms will magically rise up and slay you because they're inherently evil.

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mjranum In reply to PavelKirilovich [2010-03-12 14:04:11 +0000 UTC]

I have a friend in Nashville who has a Dragunov. Hm.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to mjranum [2010-03-12 15:54:22 +0000 UTC]

Russian Dragunov or a East Bloc clone? I hear that proper SVDs, kinda like proper AKs, are a bit of a bitch to get in North America as a result of some retarded import laws. I can't have one at all because my gov't is so retarded as to think it can go full auto.

I know a guy who can get me a KZM cheaply. KZM being the updated KZS burlap uniform, cheap to wear over combats, in the "Sun Bunnies" KLMK pattern, easy to cut off with an AK bayonet (possibly) with an appropriately mind-meltingly gorgeous model.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to tuomaskoivurinne [2010-03-01 21:58:13 +0000 UTC]

Not a problem mate, glad it got through this time! Apparently the secret to shipping trigger mitts in the mail is to add a military history book, haha! I'm still working on finding a proper frame for that picture you mailed me, I'm going to set that up on my Canadian Military History shelf in my bookcase. Kiitos.

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tuomaskoivurinne In reply to PavelKirilovich [2010-03-02 04:21:20 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I read your letter also I was thinking about the same thing, the package including the word "trigger" might seem odd to someone. ANyway, people order hunting accessories all the time.
I was first thinking that maybe the woollen mittens would have been put into quarantine for being orinally animal-based. Well, it got through this time and it really made my day. I need to dig into the book, right after I'm finished with the Legioonalainen Peters I mentioned earlier in my Journal. I've been reading it for ages now...

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PavelKirilovich In reply to tuomaskoivurinne [2010-03-02 05:00:54 +0000 UTC]

Legioonalainen Peters is one of the books I saw in the Calgary Public Library system I'd withdrawn a number of books on the FFL on. They got very bitchy about me returning them for some reason... I returned them on time, but their goddamn lazy clerk messed up the paperwork.

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tuomaskoivurinne In reply to PavelKirilovich [2010-03-02 05:56:37 +0000 UTC]

Have they fined you about it?

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PavelKirilovich In reply to tuomaskoivurinne [2010-03-02 19:56:42 +0000 UTC]

They tried. I found the books on the shelves again and showed them the rental slip, so they had to cancel the fine.

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PavelKirilovich In reply to mjranum [2010-02-24 20:44:27 +0000 UTC]

It's considered standard reading material, as is "The Other Side of the Mountain". In RC South, 2006-2008, AQT (Al Qaeda + Taliban) tried a ploy pulled straight from the book, which was recognized and counteracted by the senior commanders in the area. Not tremendously creative, but they don't have to be.

Annoyingly, they seem to have clued on to the way to win: Don't piss off all of the locals by killing and torturing them while ISAF's around to provide an alternative, wait until ISAF goes (thanks, Obama, you fucking twit, for telling them when they've won. And thanks, Harper, you fucktard, for doing the same) and then reenact the whole "Afghanistan 1989: Soviet Withdrawl" scenario. Just with more international involvement because some contingents will stay on, but for political and military reasons the contingents willing to stick around a reasonable length of time don't have the combat power to do much more than mentor the Afghan National Army or Police, or walk patrols around their bases and so on. Very limited "area of effect", as it were.

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mjranum In reply to PavelKirilovich [2010-02-25 00:47:36 +0000 UTC]

It's considered standard reading material

Oh, that's good. I wonder how many of them have read Sale's account of the retreat from Jallabad during the British attempt to 'civilize' the place...

I'm pretty horrified by the fact that our puppet is apparently setting himself up to declare himself president elect for life - just like our puppet in Pakistan did. Where does the CIA find these guys?

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