pain, will you return it?

I'm in terrible pain now. So enjoy this.

Depeche Mode - Dream On

Can you feel a little love?

As your bony fingers close around me
Long and spindly death becomes me
Heaven can you see what I see

Hey you pale and sickly child
You're death and living reconciled
Been walking home a crooked mile

Paying debt to karma you party for a living
What you take won't kill you
But careful what you're giving

There's no time for hesitating
Pain is ready, pain is waiting
Primed to do it's educating

Unwanted, uninvited kin
It creeps beneath your crawling skin
It lives without it lives within you

Feel the fever coming you're shaking and twitching
You can scratch all over
But that won't stop you itching

Can you feel a little love?
Dream on dream on

Blame it on your karmic curse
Or shame upon the universe
It knows its lines, it's well rehearsed

It sucked you in, it dragged you down
To where there is no hallow ground
Where holiness is never found

Paying debt to karma you party for a living
What you take won't kill you
But careful what you're giving

Can you feel a little love?
Dream on, dream on

Death - Sacred Serenity

Wherever we go, whatever we do
Your shadow is not far behind our steps
And our breath
Protecting and watching all...
Observing spirits on the wall
What are they telling you?

Following all instincts that are pure
Oblivious to time that may be the cure

Sacred is the gift that they
have without knowing
Serenity is knowing it's safe
from destruction of time

Maybe we could take a step back
And discover what leads us to attack
Time that is short - distance unknown
For them, each day life has just begun
Observing spirits on the wall
What are they telling you?

Following all instincts that are pure
Oblivious to time that may be the cure

Sacred is the gift that they
have without knowing
Serenity is knowing it's safe
from destruction of time

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Maskirovka

I present herewith a reading for Merdeka Day holiday.

You can read or download the pdf.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a112903.pdf

What is Maskirovka?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maskirovka

Maskirovka is a Russian word (Маскировка) pertaining to the business of military deception. Although the word is sometimes translated as 'camouflage', this belies its much broader meaning that includes all measures, active and passive, designed to deceive the enemy, which includes: concealment (skrytie), imitation using decoys and military dummies (imitasiia), manoeuvres intended to deceive (demonstrativnye manevry) and disinformation (dezinformatsiia). The Soviet Military Encyclopeadia defines maskirovka thus:

'The means of securing combat operations and the daily activities of forces; a complexity of measures, directed to mislead the enemy regarding the presence and disposition of forces, various military objectives, their condition, combat readiness and operations, and also the plans of the commander ... maskirovka contributes to the achievement of surprise for the actions of forces, the preservation of combat readiness and the increased survivability of objectives.'

It was developed as a military doctrine in the 1920s, and used by Zhukov in the 1939 Battles of Khalkhin Gol against Japan. For example the Field Regulations of the Red Army (1929) stated that "Surprise has a stunning effect on the enemy. For this reason all troop operations must be accomplished with the greatest concealment and speed." Concealment was to be attained by confusing the enemy with movements, camouflage and use of terrain, speed, use of night and fog, and secrecy. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maskirovka

I learned of this from the blog War Is Boring :-
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/maskirovka-is-russian-secret-war-7d6a304d5fb6 

Another good reading from the blog is this :-
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/william-howard-livens-played-with-fire-e91d73c1595f 

Attached herewith an episode of Ghost In The Shell entitled "Pokerface"
 Enjoy.