AT WAR. The Superintendent notes with sadness the deaths of our heroes during the weekend's fighting. The Cold Spring Shops will continue to post on matters involving economics, the academy, and things that run on rails. There will be no attempts to emulate The Command Post or Warblogs or the more active individual efforts, who you are most likely reading already anyway. Here is a quick roundup of coverage that struck me as noteworthy. InstaPundit finds that the telephone taps in the Republic of Fear inspire less fear. Vodka Pundit provided Ready, Set, Advance (uses Flash) and an instructive map (uses only public sources) and his own analogy for the war (there are parts of the east side of Cleveland that one would think twice about invading.) Professor Drezner asks people to think about what "quick victory" means. Sgt. Stryker offers his professional judgement about the Ba'athist true believers "encouraging" resistance. In his view, these guys are not exactly the Waffen SS. Cornelius Ryan's The Last Battle describes similar phenomena, only much nastier, in the Anglosphere's drive to the Elbe in 1945. Advance units would sometimes take a town or a small bridge with little or no opposition, or obtain surrenders from civilians and Wehrmacht troops, then following forces would encounter resistance by SS units who would occasionally machine-gun their own Kameraden who sought to surrender. Intel Dump is an aesthetically pleasing weblog maintained by a retired Army officer now studying the law, which comes highly recommended by Kaus Files. Winds of Change provides a number of opportunities for readers on the home front to be helpful. And you must read this post on why our troops will not wage a Saddam-style war on Saddam's loyalists. Peggy Noonan is hopeful for the life of the world yet to come. On the lighter side, look who is channeling whom!