[Scorched Earth Top 10 for February 1]

Not necessarily. The attacks are no longer conservative in nature. The overall goal is slightly different than in many previous conflicts which makes the study a bit more interesting. However I do not think it is a question of "if" but "when."

[Scorched Earth Top 10 for February 1]

It does indeed cost a lot to make this list (for God's sake look how many soldiers/material Decker and I lost in our number two position on this list). While my battle with him was close my comrades also on the list are getting savaged by their Umbrella opponents. We knew this, especially my NATO comrades. The point is to chip away at them, as time goes by they slowly descend, their NS/tech and military strength start to slowly drain away. And below us is a boiling cauldron of hundreds of NPO/Iron/etc nations with lower NS just waiting at the surface. It comes at a terrible cost to us upper-tier nations in the various alliances (AI and Nato suffering terribly) but the strategy will work. Soon dozens (if not all) of Umbrella nations will be pounded with pneumatic regularity (indeed it has already begun) in cycle after cycle.

Then Umbrella will be removed from the upper echelon of power brokers.

[The starchy emeralds.]

I did not notice any.

[Interest Check: Top 10 Most Destructive Wars chart?]

I know I am on the list. I float in-between number 3 and number five.

[The starchy emeralds.]

Yea, I don't blog here much. Ten posts in almost three years.

[The starchy emeralds.]

I teach International Conflict and Soviet history is a specialty of mine, so while I was enduring this episode I kept thinking of Khrushchev's tour of an Iowa farm in '59. Oddly enough my wife's grandmother served under Nikita and was trapped in Stalingrad during the German offensive.

[The wager.]

Prodigal moon: Soon there will be a peer-reviewed DNA study that will end the mystery. Hopefully it will be released fairly quickly (for a myriad of reasons).

[Logs - Ramirus and myself]

This Ram individual, I believe, is certainly exaggerating his experience within the realm of intl conflict. As one who has taught Int'l conflict for some time I can confidently say he does not quite understand the concept of unconditional surrender. The main violation is that if he was as knowledgeable as he claims to be he would have known that the demand for unconditional surrender will just prolong the conflict, making it much nastier. Case in point as his alliance is being liquidated.

[Sharing the same brain...]

There are all kind of problems with this, the major one being that their "revelation" is now a permanent reminder on their wrists...