Red Mist
A novel by Larry Lambert and Jules Smith
Available in digital and print formats here.
Broken Toys, a novel by Larry Lambert is coming in the early Summer of 2023.
Sometimes you ask yourself how things can happen without an audit trail, how fortuitous accidents happen to the enemies of the rich and powerful. What is the cat’s paw that favors them in the game of life? If former Green Beret Frank Brandt answered you and then didn’t kill you, somebody else like him would do the work.
Maybe sometimes they do…rarely…ok, it’s just a myth.
Bullet Points:
** The Truth about Dan Crenshaw. Chief Eddie Gallagher discusses the situation. It’s on par with my understanding of how Rep. Crenshaw is and “who he is”. I don’t know either of them personally. Make up your own mind.
** When you run out of T-62s…(h/t Claudio) T-55s really are 1950s technology. And hopelessly obsolete compared to even the oldest tank in the Ukrainian inventory. They’re bullet sponges, and they will force the Ukrainians to expend ordnance to destroy them (and their crews), depleting ammunition stocks. The Russians do not concern themselves with their army’s morale.
** The FBI acts as if it owns all three branches of the federal government. The FBI now owns all of the Epstein evidence, so. maybe it does. Epstein owned a whole lot of politicians. Now the FBI owns those politicians. They’ve returned to their roots because that’s what Hoover designed them to be and do.
The Tadpole Tail
This is a Mark IV tank with a so-called Tadpole Tail, a modification to improve their trench crossing capabilities. Some were shipped to France but not used. It wasn’t robust or rigid enough to be effective. Note that the outline of the original hull is marked in white chalk.
Can you identify the tank and the rider? If you get that far, the location is simple.
Identify the Tank:
Panzer III with Rommel sitting on cupola so in North Africa
Exactly!
Looks like a PzKfw III Mark J with the longer 60 caliber 5.0cm gun.
Maybe the Russian arty is wore out and they’ll use the t55 as makeshift arty
That’s part of the plan. The tubes are fresh and the armor was parked and rusting
Unless it’s direct fire missions, any Russian tank sucks at the artillery role due to poor gun elevation and depression. To get a more parabolic shot, and increased range, the tanks will have to be moved up a berm in order to increase gun elevation, which means the tanks will be in a fixed prepared location, making them far more vulnerable to counter-battery fire than even regular Russian mobile artillery.
I’m really surprised the Russians aren’t mass-converting old tanks into casement armored SPGs using some of the bazillion towed artillery pieces they have in storage. Lots of 122mm and 152mm howitzers in storage.
Unless… because Russia still uses the same 122 and 152mm howitzers, they’re running out of said 122 and 152mm rounds, and only have vast stores of 100mm rounds available.
I’d laugh at Russia, but we’re sending all our stores to the Ukes so our war-larders are as empty and harder to fill because of our reliance on high-tech ammo and the lack of US foundries and ammo-fabrication facilities.
The ChiComs must be laughing their arses off.
Some of the towed artillery that isn’t shot out could be put into gun carriages if the Russians had the industrial capacity. They’ve shot through a lot of tubes… never big on accuracy they’re lobbing shells.
Sounds like the artillery version of Carpet Bombing…
Friggin’ Boys of Insurrection- The Tranny Manifesto is also in their possession, never to see the light of day…maybe because they foster the “destroy America” anarchy and need to keep it under wraps.
Crenshaw- “One cannot have a foot in two canoes”…yet Crenshaw appears to be operating as such (so is Tulsi btw. Is her seemingly rational commentary obscuring a very dangerous wolf in sheep’s clothing??). I have only a vague idea of what SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher was “accused” of doing, but that was war and no one except soldiers have a right to comment. (that scene in American Sniper where Kyle is forced to take out the kid wearing the bomb as a team advances…not a proud moment as he expressed to his spotter, but absolutely necessary.)
Always thought something had gone off the rails with Crenshaw as he sounds and operates as if he’s been bought but uses his SEAL service and injury to obscure a nefarious/self-serving agenda. Selling one’s soul is easy if you allow it.
Crenshaw was viewed by some peers as technically competent as an operator, but with a hefty personal agenda that placed himself ahead of all others in all circumstances.
In recent memory, has the FBI done anything worthy of praise?
Sometimes a blind pig finds a truffle.
Exactly. It has become an entity unto itself, now made worse by zero oversight and the charter to attack political opposition (maybe always was). Unchecked political corruption breeds anarchy and tyranny…which must be excised or it will further metastasize into a larger Hydra.
Took out the chicomm police station in NYC.
Congratulations on the new book(s). Look forward to reading both of them. Maybe if they would have stuck to the original white chalked hull outline on the MK IV it would have been more effective in the trenches?
They were experimenting. It was all so new.
It seems that Dan Crenshaw has taken on the moral outlook and behavior of that which he actually serves.
He wants to be President.
Oh HAIL no……
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Enjoyed Red Mist” and am looking forward to “Broken Toys”.
Russian tanks, so the Russians are using the T-55s as artillery until the Ukrainians expend one of the rapidly diminishing stockpiles of Javelins to take them out? Russians have historically not been shy about using their populous carelessly have they?
Crenshaw. Have to read up about it. To be honest he is not someone who I have heard a bunch about. See what happens when you don’t have a television. I have read about Chief Gallagher and respect the hell out of the man.
I don’t know the deal with Gallagher nor Crenshaw.
But if Crenshaw is a scumbag, IDK why anyone is surprised – he’s a national-level politician,
and they all are, essentially. Of the very few who aren’t filth when elected, the vast majority have become filth by the next campaign.
I would be shocked if there are a couple dozen decent people in Congress, the Administration (with all it’s advisors and appointees), and the administrative levels of the various Agencies, combined.
Voting to fill non-local office is overwhelmingly an exercise in picking the least worst.
-Kle.
Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Comer, I’m sure there are more. But those are some.
Funny you should put up a photo of Rommel. Just the other day I wandered down the YouTube rabbit hole and watched the 1951 movie “The Desert Fox” starring James Mason. His aide, Captain Hermann Aldinger, is played by a young Richard Boone. Boone’s performance is decent, but he could have used some coaching to cover his American accent.
I feel that was the best role James Mason played.
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Red Mist and Loki’s Fire are excellent and looking forward to the third in that series, along with Broken Toys! Crenshaw/Gallagher are two sides of the same coin. Sigh…
Both Crenshaw and Gallagher believe their own press… ego creates problems. Unfortunately the business lends itself to bigger egos now that the Hollywood factor descended onto the Teams.
While I can understand the “two sides/coin” perspective, what does a person do who tries to clear his name while being accused of a crime, especially when told to clear that mud hut? Every time it’s Monday morning quarterbacking with the typical no win, “When did you stop beating your wife?” type deal. Or, if not that, minimally you look like a desperate whiner avoiding the consequences of their [alleged??] actions. Zero sum game…there are no winners.
Crenshaw, by words and actions appears – sadly – to be a sell out. Gallagher appears measured.
Gallagher is very typical of a 40 year old SOC. It’s never one size fits all, but more typical than not.
LL, Is Loki’s Fire on hard print book too? I am not a Kindel reader. and I hate reading on my computer. I am one that curls up in my favorite old, overstuffed easy chair with a cup of coffee or a good tea and immerse myself in the feel, texture and smell of a good book, tablets or laptops don’t do it for me…
Both Red Mist and Lokis Fire are available in print and digital formats.
Hunting in the Shadows by Mike Watson will also be available in both formats.
I’m not finished with Broken Toys yet. I expect that it will be available in both formats. It’s close to going to edit.
Good, I prefer actual books if they can be had, plus you can comfortably read them outside on a sunny day…while lazing around getting a tan…not that I do that.
You have to store them…
True. For me it depends on the book…a series from Hunter, Child, Grisham, Baldacci, etc. are great on the iPad, but those are for hitting the hay decompression…meaning I eventually go into a coma with my hand on the iPad, probably ordering something from Amazon or a Gwyneth Paltrow candle. An unattended iPad is dangerous.