Naval Mines + Land Mines

choi

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(1) Where China Is Mighty. Strategy Page, May 30, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsurf/articles/20110530.aspx

Note:
(a) The article states, "Modern naval mines were widely used for the first time over a century ago, during the Russo-Japanese war (1904- 1905)."

(i) Consult
Russo-Japanese War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War
(3.3 Blockade of Port Arthur)

* Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1897)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Petropavlovsk_(1897)
(Commissioned 1897; section 1 Name: "The name Petropavlovsk refers to the Siege of the port of Petropavlovsk [on Kamchatka Peninsula] during the Crimean War")
* Japanese battleship Yashima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yashima
(八島; Commissioned 1897; The name "Yashima" is from an ancient poetic name for "Japan")

八島  
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E5%B3%B6
(日本の呼称（雅称）の一つ。* * *『古事記』では、本州・九州・四国・淡路・壱岐・対馬・隠岐・佐渡などの「八つの島」の総称とされている。しかし、日本神話においては八は聖数とされ)

Translation: The book Kojiki (712 AD) listed eight islands as Japan (which did not include Hokaido, by the way) in part because 8 was a sacrosanct number.
* Japanese battleship Hatsuse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Hatsuse
(初瀬; Commissioned 1901)

Ja.wikipedia.org says, "艦名の由来は奈良県を流れる初瀬川による." The name of the battleship came from the river that flows through Nara Prefecture. Ja. wikipedia.org also says of that river: 下流は「大和川」(Yamatogawa)、上流は「初瀬川」.

(b) naval mine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_mine
(section 3 Mine laying)
(c) Palau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau
(Following its defeat in the Spanish-American War, Spain sold Palau and most of the rest of the Caroline Islands to Germany in 1899. Control passed to Japan in 1914 and during World War II the islands were taken by the United States in 1944)
(d) For Wonson, see Wonsan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonsan
(元山市; capital of Kangwŏn Province 江原道, North Korea;

The following two are from Online Library of Selected Images-- EVENTS -- The Korean War, 1950-1953, by Naval Historical Center, US Department of the Navy, undated.
(i) The Wonsan Operation, October 1950--Overview and Selected Images. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/kowar/50-unof/wonsan.htm
(ii) Wonsan Mine Clearance, October-November 1950
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/kowar/50-unof/wonsn-2.htm
("Having failed to defend adequately against the Inchon Invasion in mid-September 1950, the North Koreans were not to be caught twice in that kind of trap. Their Soviet supporters had provided thousands of sea mines, plus technical advisors, and these began to show their effectiveness in late September as several U.S. and South Korean Navy ships struck mines off the Korean east coast, with some vessels being sunk.")

(e) fuze (n): "variant of FUSE" www.m-w.com


(2) The French Solution To Anti-Vehicle Mines. Strategy Page, May 26, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htarm/articles/20110526.aspx

Note:
(a) A video clip:

SOUVIM II Système d'ouverture d'itinéraires minés / Mined routes clearing system journal4x4  12 videos Subscribe Subscribed. YouTube, Uploaded by journal4x4 on Jul 1, 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tcE_sjbDww
(b) The roadside bombs kill much fewer American and NATO soldiers nowadays (see my posting TOMORROW, about a report series at Boston Globe). As far as I can tell, drones and local villagers' reactions (they avoid the spot or occasionally tattle) account for the progress, rather than technological improvement to locate them (bombs) once they are planted.



-----------------------------Separately
(1) Chinese General Points Out The Obvious. Strategy Page, May 26, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/somalia/articles/20110526.aspx
(To stop piracy, Chinese suggest invasion and occupation of Somalia coast towns)

(2) 马英九: 两岸互不承认主权、互不否认治权. VOA Chinese, May 30, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110530-ma-taiwan-mutual-cross-strait-122819454.html

My comment: See also
Lee Shu-hua and Sofia Wu, President advocates cross-strait mutual non-denial. Central News Agency, May 30, 2011  
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201105300028
("Addressing the opening of the 2011 International Law Association Asia-Pacific Regional Conference" held at Taipei)

I simply can not tell if this is a rehash of "mutual non-denial" he advocated prior to his 2008 election as Taiwan's president, or if this is something new.

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