Talkers.

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"American military officers such as Rufus Ingalls or George Crook would sometimes send messages in Indigenous [American Indian] tongues to other officers whom they knew shared their expertise in the language."

Before there were the code talkers there were the code talkers. And continue to be so too.

Courtesy the wiki and the tip from the Internet web site Strategy Page the history of the code talker as not known to me.

"A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication." 

The Navajo American Indian code talkers most persons conversant with the history of the Second World War are familiar with. Radio communication secured.

Consider also languages as used by code talkers and not necessarily so by American military forces.

1. Basque.

"In November 1952, Euzko Deya magazine reported that in May of that year, upon meeting a large number of US Marines of Basque ancestry in a San Francisco camp, Captain Frank D. Carranza had thought of using the Basque language for codes."

PROPOSED BUT PERHAPS NEVER IMPLEMENTED!

2. Nubian

"In the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, Egypt employed Nubian-speaking Nubian people as code talkers."

3. Welsh

"A system employing the Welsh language was used by British forces during World War II, but not to any great extent. In 1942, the Royal Air Force developed a plan to use Welsh for secret communications, but it was never implemented. Welsh was used more recently in the Yugoslav Wars for non-vital messages."

4. Wenzhounese.

"China used Wenzhounese-speaking people as code talkers during the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War."

5. Hungarian. American Civil War.

Hungarian immigrants to the USA written messages in their unique language a form of secure communications at that period of American history. New citizens USA serving the cause of Union and their new country in a manner hardly anyone could have ever anticipated.

Thank you NSA for # 5. You learn something new everyday.

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Vorsicht. Die Polizei ist da.

Feldgendarmerie I had heard of. The other two were a blank for me.

1. Feldgendarmerie. German military police World War Two.

"When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Feldgendarmerie were reintroduced into the Wehrmacht. The new units received full infantry training and were given extensive police powers. A military police school was set up at Potsdam, near Berlin to train Feldgendarmerie personnel. Subjects included Criminal code, general and special police powers, reporting duties, passport and identification law, weapons drill, self-defence techniques, criminal police methodology, and general administration."

"All prospective candidates served at a Feldgendarmerie command after the first term of examinations. Courses lasted one year and failure rates were high: in 1935 only 89 soldiers graduated from an initial intake of 219 candidates. Feldgendarmerie were employed within army divisions and as self-contained units under the command of an army corps."

Chain Dogs! Wore the gorget around the neck as a sign of authority. and were authoritarian. Draconian to a great degree, and generally disliked by the common Wehrmacht soldier. Units consisting ONLY [?] of career troops, officers and and sergeants, highly trained beyond normal.

2. Geheime Feldpolizei. German SECRET military police Second World War.

"The Geheime Feldpolizei . . . 'Secret Field Police', was the secret military police of the German Wehrmacht until the end of the Second World War (1945). Its units carried out plain-clothed security work in the field - such as counter-espionage, counter-sabotage, detection of treasonable activities, counter-propaganda, protecting military installations and the provision of assistance to the German Army in courts-martial investigations."

Similar to the feldgendarmerie but operating in plain clothes, not uniformed!

3. Feldjägerkorps. German quasi-military police their mission to apprehend and often punish deserters by summary execution.

"By 1943, World War II was turning against Germany and morale amongst the front line troops was dropping. Until this time, the Feldgendarmerie and Geheime Feldpolizei had been relied upon to try to curb desertion and maintain discipline; however, the recent string of German defeats and the fact that there was no single service dedicated solely to catching deserters impelled the creation of the Feldjägerkorps in November of that year. In order to be eligible for service, soldiers had to have a minimum three years of frontline combat experience and have earned the Iron Cross 2nd class."

A response to increased numbers of German troops deserting their units in the latter stages of the war. Search for, apprehend, turn over to a military tribunal for punishment.

About fifteen-thousand German troops executed for desertion during WW2. That preponderance in the latter months of the war, 1945.

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Svalbard.

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Courtesy the tip from Alonzo.

A scheme and crafty action by bad actors? Who knows?

"Undersea Cable Connecting Norway With Arctic Satellite Station Has Been Mysteriously Severed"

"The cables run through a highly strategic stretch of water near where the Barents and Norwegian Sea meet."

"An undersea fiberoptic cable located between mainland Norway and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean has been put out of action in a still-mysterious incident."

Red arrow points to Svalbard Land. Thanks to Google Maps. Svalbard in the Greenland Sea and as shown the geographic location with relation to Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Novaya Zemlya.

Consider recent articles from the Independent Barents Observer military activity the vicinity Svalbard:

1. "In a surprise direction, Northern Fleet [Russian] grouping sails west of Svalbard on annual Arctic voyage"

"The anti-submarine destroyer Severomorsk leads the Russian navy group, said to carry out 'a set of measured aimed at protecting the interests of the Russian Federation in the Arctic.'”

2. "Moscow dissatisfied with Norwegian navy visit to Arctic archipelago"

"Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Friday said the recent navy visit to Svalbard is the latest step by Oslo in a series of successive actions to include this territory in the sphere of national military development."

3. "Moscow aims to enhance presence in Svalbard as part of hybrid-strategy, expert warns"

"​'A hybrid-strategy is underway in which Russia bolsters its legitimate presence in Svalbard on one hand while raising tensions in the maritime space on the other hand,' says polar geopolitics expert Elizabeth Buchanan."

4. "Disruption at one of two undersea cables to Svalbard"

"There is no redundant between the Arctic archipelago and mainland Norway after loss of power in the area where the fiberoptic cable follows the seabed down to a depth of 2,700 meters [about 9,000 feet] in the Greenland Sea."

Hooliganism on the oceanic bottom? Ripping up a fiber-optic cable in such a remote area hardly an easy task. NOR is the first time such an event has occurred! All suspicions directed at Moscow?

The ability of a Russian deep-diving submarine of the Losharik class to operate at such a depth nil. An unmanned deep submersible vehicle of the Konsul class more appropriate! 

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Magawa RIP.

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Magawa has terminated this existence. Rest in Peace [RIP] Magawa. Magawa the African giant pouched rat famed and honored for his work detecting land mines.

Thanks to the New York Times for the story.

"Magawa, Rat That Hunted Land Mines, Dies in Retirement"

"The African giant pouched rat [Magawa] sniffed out more than 100 mines and other pieces of unexploded ordnance in Cambodia over five years, winning hearts and an international award."

"The African giant pouched rat was part of the 'HeroRAT' initiative run by the Belgian nonprofit APOPO, which works across Southeast Asia and Africa, training rats to detect land mines and tuberculosis."

Further:

"Landmine detection rat Magawa received the PDSA Gold Medal for his life-saving work in Cambodia, making him the first rat to receive a PDSA award."

"Give me one-hundred good men like Magawa and I could conquer the world" says Napoleon.

Indeed!! They work for peanuts too!

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War Book.

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"CRAZY HORSE DREAMED AND WENT INTO THE WORLD WHERE THERE IS NOTHING BUT THE SPIRITS OF THINGS. THAT IS THE REAL WORLD THAT IS BEHIND THIS ONE, AND EVERYTHING WE SEE HERE IS SOMETHING LIKE A SHADOW FROM THAT WORLD…. IT WAS THIS VISION THAT GAVE HIM HIS GREAT POWER, FOR WHEN HE WENT INTO A FIGHT, HE HAD ONLY TO THINK OF THAT WORLD TO BE IN IT AGAIN, SO THAT HE COULD GO THROUGH ANYTHING AND NOT BE HURT." - - Black Elk.

"WAS LAKOTA WARRIOR LEADER CRAZY HORSE A GREAT ARTIST, TOO?"

Extracted from the Internet webzine "Coffee or Die" the original article from Henry Adams as seen in "The Conversation" Internet web site.

Found! The ledgerbook of the great American Indian warrior Crazy Horse? Never heard of such a thing!

"ledgerbook: noun - - Bookkeeping. an account book of final entry, in which business transactions are recorded."

Ledgerbook in this case a pictorial accounting of war exploits!

"Ledgerbooks by Native Americans are relatively common, but most of them date from after the Indian Wars, when Native prisoners in Florida composed and sold them to tourists for much-needed cash. This book stands out because of its early (and quite specific) production date. As McLaughlin documents in detail, a US soldier discovered the book near the scaffold burial of an Indian Chief on the Little Bighorn battlefield, shortly after Custer’s defeat. It was made not for tourists, but rather is an actual Native American 'War Book,' made by Native Americans, for Native Americans, and filled with drawings of war exploits."

This image actually shows Crazy Horse in battled against the U.S. Army cavalry? An actual battle scene from the era of the American Indian War?

"For Native American warriors, such drawings recorded history. They acted as a means to boast about their battlefield accomplishments and to improve their status among fellow warriors. They also believed the images resulted in 'good magic' for future conflicts."

Battlefield deeds and enemy vanquished as recorded allowing for legitimate bragging rights. Renderings and sketches of this nature showing an adversary overcome in battle also believed by traditional and non-technological societies often thought of as grabbing "the spirit or essence" of the foe?

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DEF.

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Devoted readers to the blog please understand this is an extremely controversial topic.

Infamous American war crime Second World War. Eisenhower's Death Camps as referred in the aftermath of the conflict, 1945.

For those not up to speed, peruse at your leisure the following links:

https://en.topwar.ru/1452-lagerya-smerti-yejzenxauyera.html

https://allthatsinteresting.com/rheinwiesenlager

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinwiesenlager

https://ww2truth.com/2021/01/23/in-eisenhowers-death-camps-a-u-s-guard-remembers/

As is alleged, about one million German soldiers perishing while being held in detention camps run by the U.S. Army, not provided for and dying from neglect, starvation, disease.

Now see the Mark Felton You Tube video the expert opinion of professional historians.

Numbers of German dead vastly exaggerated? Figures of U.S. Army and German experts post-war slightly different but total not in the million, far less, no greater than five thousand? As is made clear in the Mark Felton video the detained soldiers not traditional prisoners-of-war. Not captured on the battlefield and ruled such by Eisenhower. Referred to as Detained Enemy Forces [DEF] and not POW.

Make no mistake about it. Those camps never intended to "house" enormous numbers of detainees. Conditions acknowledged as exceedingly poor. Deaths from maltreatment however way far less than alleged by persons with an agenda.

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HEFFG.

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Heard this all before! Will believe it when I see it! Had better work better than the highly-touted electromagnetic railgun!

"NAVY’S FUSION PLANS COULD PRODUCE A WORLD-SHATTERING WEAPON"

By Alex Hollings and Sandboxx courtesy the "Black Rifle Coffee" webzine "Coffee or Die".

"Fusion weapons could more closely resemble something from a Star Wars movie than currently existing nuclear weapons."

"In 2019, the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) filed a number of seemingly out-of-this-world patents that could, in theory, revolutionize not only military aviation, but just about everything. Chief among these strange new inventions is a High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator [HEEFG], which if functional, could produce massive amounts of power with far-reaching military and commercial implications."

A power source or a weapon source or both?

American and other scientists around the world have been working on nuclear fusion devices for many decades now. Have made incremental improvements at achieving nuclear fusion but to date not even close to approaching the level of a operating fusion reactor feasible to bring on-line in some capacity. Always more energy in than energy out.

The electro-magnetic railgun never achieving the results as desired also after decades or research and development. I guess this FUSION apparatus is a believe-it-when-you-see-it proposition.

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