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[sophiaserpentia]

US Military action name generator.
Pick one word from each column to determine the name for your next civil or military action.

Enduring Desert Infinite

Freedom Shield Storm Justice Liberty Crusade

Comments

[ex-rejuvena656.livejournal.com]

How cool. :)

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

It needs work, I think. If I think of any improvements I will perhaps edit this post later.

[tkeana.livejournal.com]

Clever. I like Infinite Crusade.

pass on desert but

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

Ill pass on desert
but all the other words are honorable and
good, you pick for me...

*crusade get bad reviews but consider count
bohemond compared to the emperor alexius,
surely anna commenena was right in her preference...
(this reference if obscure let it go ,the subject
is too large for here).

Re: pass on desert but

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Most of these came from actual names... "Enduring Freedom" was the name of the action in Afghanistan, IIRC, while "Desert Sheild/Desert Storm" was the codename of the first Gulf War.

Apparently even bombing runs are being given codenames now; the "shock and awe" bombing run going on right now is being called "Exemplary Destruction" by the Department of Defense.

Yes, "Crusade" did get bad reviews when it slipped out there... I'm sorry but this time the reference is indeed too obscure for me to catch...

Bohemond

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

Yes I know the operations, also there was
urgent fury. the names seem honorable although
"infinite justice" was withdrawn as being a bit
over the top...but noms de guerre have their own
style and panache and I dont see anything
ridiculous about them really...a little like
street names etc the changable changed.

The bit about Bohemond having mentioned is worth
to expand and to reccomend a wonderful historical
novel "Count Bohemond" by Alfred Duggan.
Bohemond and Roger Guiscard (ie "the weasal"
speaking of noms de guerre :) ) were leaders
of the first crusade who passed through Constantinople
and the Emperor Alexis tried to shake them down and
then betray them to the Arabs after and there were
some bad moments...Anna Commnenena was a Byzantine
royal who wrote a history "the Alexiad" and who
fell in love with Bohemond. Bohemond ,and this
is too complex to represent in a few words and
also I am not really learned enough to fully handle it,
was a fascinating man with a subtle mind who seems to
represent a culture which is coming and which has
possiblity of development and openness as Alexis and
for that matter the lords of Islam seem to represent
cultures already moribund almost from their beginnings...
so in the poem Lepanto Mohammed says much latter in
time to his Djinns "a voice is in the mountains, in
the mountains and I know, the voice of him who
troubled us so many years ago.
It is he who knows not kismet. It is he who knows
not fate. It is Geoffrey it is Baldwin it is Godfrey
at the gate!..."

all of which to the matter of the crusades just as a
one sided romantic impression, to which add that in
de Jourdain's Memoirs of the old doge coming forward
and kneeling to receive the cross...
and we could make a preraphealite triptych!

But I do not love the current war, did not favor its
intiation and hope for its quick conclusion.
+Seraphim.