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			<title>Ice-9</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-21065</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Kurt Vonnegut in the book Cat's Cradle has the Manhattan Project develop a different type of ice crystal at the request of the Marines who are sick of fighting the mud. Cue the end of the world.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>MikeT</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mud testing</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-21046</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dated a girl whose father drove prototype tanks (including the chassis that eventually became the M1) over crappy terrain to test them. Mud was his bane, and you could always tell the days he'd been 'mudding' - He'd kick everyone out of the house and just sit there in the living room, nursing a beer and a grudge.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Laird</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Mud testing</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20985</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Army does extensive mud testing. I have been out on some of these tests. The mud has to be just right. Each vehicle has parameters it must acheive in order to pass.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Battle of Agincourt</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20977</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Forgive me if other readers already offered this example... but a friend of mine who did graduate work in military history explained a compelling theory of why the French knights lost the Battle of Agincourt... despite a 6:1 personnel advantage, heavy armour, superior training and weapons, the French knights fell to English long-bow archers because the mud slowed and tired them out... The muddiness of the battlefield was a key reason the French lost... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8648068/Battle-of-Agincourt-ten-reasons-why-the-French-lost.html]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bob von</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Mud in Alabama</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20936</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I used to know a farmer who made a killing in the winter by diverting a spring so that the water ran over a "dirt" road. He then stood by with hos tractor - ready to pull anyone out who had the $20 it took to accomplish that. We got stuck once and my dad just thought "I am not payinh this!" After ruining the tailgate - and jacking the car up only to achieve a few feet each time - he succombled to the toll.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Clay Stiles</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Amber of War</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20931</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Actually, that tank is a T-55, so it probably belonged to the communist Afghan government forces, or to one side or another in the civil war (still ongoing) that followed the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. The Red Army would have used newer tanks in the 1980s - T-64s or T-72s. For more on the mobility of vehicles versus animals, you should read some of the writings of Gen. John K. Herr, the Army's last Chief of Cavalry. He kept up the fight for the inclusion of horse cavalry in the U.S. Army through the Korean War.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dave L.</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Mud Fun</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20921</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I deal with mud every day, in a different way. We use bentonite (a clay) mixed with water to create an extremely slippery mud lubricant used in drilling. A half inch of this stuff can stop a vehicle from moving, and if you slip in it, a broken leg or other injury is common. And when we pump this stuff into a hole and the hose breaks, the drill pit fills up, making an extreme drowning hazard for those in it (they are so lubricated with liquid clay, it's almost impossible to even get a harness on them... sometimes you have to try and float them out!). Interestingly, this mud is also the main ingredient in much makeup, both women's facial makeup AND camo stuff. When I wish to vacation from this mud, I go sailing through the Everglades in small boats... where I usually end up in Florida Bay, which is one giant mud flat... you can sink up to your hips in primordial ooze if you aren't careful. I can fully imagine just how treacherous mud could be on a battlefield, and history has indeed shown us over and over again how water mixed with soil can alter the outcome of a battle, a war, and of civilization.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mike Barnett</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>More History</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Another example of mudding to stop the enemy is Field Marshall Rommel who flooded many of the Normady fields for three reasons 1) to cause paratroopers to drown, 2) create fields of fire for German troops 3) to bog down the Allied advance. Those who do not learn from History...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>D. Rose</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Terrain Analysis</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20919</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As a former 81Q, Terrain Analyst, I’m glad to see at least someone was willing to heed our warnings. But all too often that is/was not the case. Leading to the inevitable… Too often we were derided as useless REMFs. But troops died stuck in the mud we could have warned them about.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BSJ</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Amber of War</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20918</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Chiang Kai Shek broke Chinese levys to cover his western retreat from the Japs. More than 1 million Chinese drowned.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dashui</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Amber of War</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michael, I am a landscape contractor in SoCal. I know a lot about soil, and alkalinity in the soils in the South West. Our soils are alkaline and I have had mud-clay soils chemically tear open the skin in my hand. Very painful. 35 years of landscape work in San Diego have given me the hands of a 100 year old man. Gloves are critical, and hand lotions are essential. Now tell that to a young man as I was told and and you don't believe in it. Time catches up. If you get cracking around the finger tips, use superglue to seal the cracks. Vaseline is cheap insurance. And in an alkaline clay soil region, the water is always hard. Aloe based hand cream is a must. I wish I had listened to this advice when I was younger.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Kurt Olney</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Thanks for the education</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As always, very informative and very interesting. You give insights to war that the average person wouldn't think of. Thank you for educating us on the aspects of war not talked about!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>leyla</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 01:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>General Mud</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Stalin said that General Winter and General Famine would stop Hitler. I guess he for got about General Mud. Here is an Abrams tank stuck in the mud. http://live4fun.ru/small_pictures/img_4609832_199_0.jpg]]></description>
			<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Amber of War</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20914</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Sledge vividly describes mud in "With The Old Breed At Peleliu And Okinawa". This post reminds me of Thucydides' stories of helpless hoplites in their heavy panoply in rough country. Thanks for all the great work you do, Michael.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Amber of War</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20913</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Excellent article. One of your better ones and well worth reading. Now, if those who give the orders will take time to read it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David Quin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Concerned American Citizen</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20912</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I think the movie "Hamburger Hill" does a great job of portraying the conditions grunts went through during Vietnam. Watch that movie, and you'll see how the mud hindered the assaults time-and-time again.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Concerned American Citizen</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/amber-of-war.htm#comment-20911</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This post I find particularly fascinating, due to its historical perspective. My Guard engineering unit actually excavated a road this past summer during Annual Training, for a Red Horse unit to pave afterward during theirs. The site was a Union bivouac during the Civil War. The elements hindered construction from time-to-time, and mud would bog down all but the most agile vehicles (but we finished). There were remnants of a Union corduroy road nearby, along with fighting positions and shelters. No way can a dismounted unit hump through the mud, without serious hindrance. Body Armor definitely isn't light. Perhaps, special wide-track footwear and treads (i.e. tires) need to be developed for our ground forces? My dad was a grunt platoon leader in '70. It's amazing how the more things change, the more they stay the same.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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