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Thanks all. Question: What is the best way to get yourself (player) recorded? Or do you need someone else to do that in MP mode? camera scripting doesn't allow it, since your buttons are disabled. GMI camera won't work, since its you taking the shot.

Nice videos everyone. Heres my 1st go at it.

Concentrated on the details. Zooming into the RPG gunners face or the smoke trail, or using around 10~20 mobs to create the atmosphere. No need for crazy horde of gangster rappers.

This is the very essence of the problem. If NK wants to deal with peace, they should talk to SK, not US. It has been that way since the Clinton administration. NK has been askig for direct confirmation from US that they will not attack NK. And to secure that they want US troops out of SK. So even in case when NK attacks SK, US can't attck NK since they made the deal. That's right South Korea is the one that faces the threat of North Korean retaliation. The U.S. is out of range. That's why everyone in range doesn't want a war and the U.S. is still up for it. As long as the the U.S. is out of range of North Korean missiles, all it's allies in the area are in danger of taking that reprisal instead. The price may not be too high for America to pay, but it is for everyone else. There will be no war. South Korea doesn't want war, it wants to be Korea again. Just like the North. I agree that neither South Korea nor North Korea can agree terms on reunification, however the longer the U.S. interferes the harder it will be. A unified Korea is not in U.S. intrests. I have plenty of respect for South Korea's sovereignty, that is why I don't like seeing it used as a cold war pawn. The Cold War is over. As for the only co-operation being the co-operation where North Korea makes money, isn't that the best kind? People co-operating to make money is the antithesis of war. If you want peace, this is the way. The U.S. should try it, trying to provoke a war isn't going to work. The time for hard power is over. Soft power now holds the key. The war's over, lets all make some money. Absolutely agree with those statements.

Did you think of the possibility that South Korea do not want a conventional war as well. It is never too late for negotiations. Japan wanted to do that before Kim's latest act of defiance. Always been. Please do not swiftly associate South Korea, with the likes of Phillippines nor Taiwan. Besides the regional similarity, they have not that many things in common in the political sense. Wars are never ending, whether it be on the field, or behind a desk of a government official or in business. So yes, "it's still going on."

Find the guy whos making compost.

China has everything to benefit from the collapse of Kim's regime in the long run.

You mean to be more precise, Kim Jong Il.

The weaker North Korea gets, the more dangerous it becomes. The question that will likely determine the global balance of power in Asia for generation is, what happens when North Korea collapses? KFR (Kims Family Regime): Abbreviation used by the American military officers. The Nightmare After Iraq On the Korean peninsula, the Cold War has never ended. In the immediate aftermath of the Korean War, the South raised a 328-foot flagpole; the North responded with a 525-foot pole, then put a flag on it whose dry weight is 595 pounds. The North built a two-story building in the Joint Security Area at Pan munjom; the South built a three-story one. The North then added another story to its building. "The land of one-upmanship," is how one U.S. Army sergeant describes the DMZ, or demilitarized zone. The two sides once held a meeting in Panmunjom that went on for eleven hours. Because there was no formal agreement about when to take a bathroom break, neither side budged. The meeting became known as the "Battle of the Bladders." In other divided countries of the twentieth century-Vietnam, Germany, Yemen - the forces of unity ultimately triumphed. But history suggests that unification does not happen through a calibrated political process in which the interests of all sides are respected. Rather, it tends to happen through a cataclysm of events that, piles of white papers and war-gaming exercises notwithstanding, catches experts by surprise. Given that North Korea's army of 1.2 million soldiers has been increasingly deployed toward the South Korean border, the Korean peninsula looms as potentially the next American military nightmare. In 1980, 40 percent of North Korean combat forces were deployed south of Pyongyang near the DMZ; by 2003, more then 70 percent were. As the saying goes among American soldiers, "There is no peace time in ROK." One has merely to observe the Patriot missile barriers, the reinforced concrete hangars, and the blast barriers at the U.S. Air Force bases at Osan and Kunsan, south of Seoul-which are as heavily fortified as any bases in Iraq-to be aware of this. A marine in Okinawa said, "North Korea is not some third-rate, Middle Eastern conventional army. These brainwashed Asians" - as he crudely put it-"will stand and fight." American soldiers in Korea refer to the fighting on the peninsula between 1950 and 1953 as "the first Korean War." The implicit assumption is that there will be a second. This helps explain why Korea may be the most dismal place in the world for U.S. troops to be deployed-worse, in some ways, than Iraq. Numerous members of the the combat-arms community, both air and infantry, told me that they would rather be in Iraq or Afghanistan than in Korea, which constitutes the worst of all military worlds. Soldiers and airmen often live on a grueling wartime schedule, with constant drills, and yetthey also have to put up with official folderol that is part of all peacetime bases-the saluting and inspections that fall by the wayside in war zones, where the only thing that matters is how well you fight. The weather on the peninsula is lousy, too: the winds charging down from Siberia make the winters unbearably frigid, and the monsoons coming off the Pacific Ocean make the summers hot and humid. The dust blowing in from Gobi Desert doesn't help. The threat from north of the DMZ is formidable. North Korea boasts 100,000 well-trained special-operation forces and one of the worlds largest biological and chemical arsenals. It has stockpiles of anthrax, cholera, and plague, as well as eight industrial facilities for producing chemical agents-any of which could be launched at Seoul by the army's conventional artillery. If the governing infrastructure in Pyongyang were to unravel, the result could be widespread lawlessness (compounded by the guerilla mentality of the Kim Family Regime's armed forces), as well as mass migration out of and within North Korea. In short, North Korea's potential for the deployment of weapons of mass destruction-either during or after pre-collapse fighting is far greater. What terrifies South Koreans more than North Korean missiles is North Korean refugees pouring south. The Chinese, for their part, have nightmare visions of millions of North Korean refugees heading north over the Yalu river into Manchuria. Obviously, it would be reckless not to worry about North Korea's missile and WMD technologies. North test fired seven missiles in July. According to U.S. data, three of the missiles were Scud-Cs, and three were No-dong-As with ranges of 300 to 1,000 miles; all were capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The third type of missile, a Taep'o-dong-2, has a range of 2,300 to 9,300 miles, which means it could conceivably hit the continental United States. Though the Taep'o-dong-2 failed after takeoff during the recent testing, it did so at the point of maximum dynamic pressure-the same point where the space shuttle Challenger exploded, and the moment when things are most likely to go wrong. So this is likely not an insoluble problem for the KFR. How to prevent another Iraq Stephen Bradner, a civilian expert on the region and an adviser to the military in South Korea, has thought a lot about the tactical and operational problems an unraveling North Korean state would present. So has Colonel Maxwell, the chief of staff of U.S. Special Operations in South Korea. "The regime in Pyongyang could collapse without necessarily its army corps and brigades collapsing," Maxwell says, "So we might have to mount a relief operation at the same time that we'd be conducting combat ops. If there is anybody in the UN who thinks it will just be a matter of feeding people, they're smoking dope." Maxwell has conducted similar operations before: he was the commander of the U.S Army Special Forces battalion that landed on Basilan Island, in the southern Phillippines, in the early 2002, part of a mission that combined humanitarian assistance with counterinsurgency operations against Jemaah Islamiyah and the Abu Sayyaf Group, two terrorist organizations. But the Korean peninsula presents a far vaster and more difficult challenge. "The situation in the North could become so messy and ambiguous," Maxwell says, "that the collapse of the chain of command of the KFR could be more dangerous than the preservation of it, particularly when one considers control over WMD." In order to prevent the debacle of the sort that occurred in Iraq-but with potentially deadlier consequences, because of the free-floating WMD-a successful relief operation would require making contacts with the KFR generals and various factions of the former North Korean military, who would be vying for control in different regions. If the generals were not absorbed into the operational command structure of the occupying force, Maxwell says they might form the basis of an insurgency. The Chinese, who have connections inside the North Korean military, would be best positioned to make these contacts-but the role of U.S. Army Special Forces in this effort might be substantial. Green berets and the CIA would be among the first in, much like in Afghanistan in 2001. Including the South Korean Special Operators. Obviously, the United States could not unilaterally insert troops into a dissolved North Korea. It would likely be a four-power intervention force-the United States, Chine, South Korea, and Russia. Officially sanctioned by the United Nations. Japan would be kept out (though all parties would gladly accept Japanese money for the endeavor). Although Japan's proximity to the peninsula gives it the most to fear from reunification, Korean hatred of the Japanese makes participation of the Japanese troops in an intervention force unlikely. Between 1910 and 1945, Japan brutally occupied not only Korea but parts of China too, and it defeated Russian on land and at sea in the early twentieth century. Tokyo may have more reason then any other government for wanting to put boots on the ground in collapsed North Korea, but it won't be able to, because both China and South Korea would fight tooth and nail to prevent it from doing so. Of course, South Korea would bear the brunt of the economic and social disruption in returning the peninsula to normalcy. No official will say this out loud, but South Korea-along with every other country in the region-as little interest in reunification, unless it were to happen gradually over years or decades. The best outcome would be a South Korean protectorate in much of the North, officially under un international trusteeship, that would keep the two Koreas functionally separate for a significant period of time. This would allow each country time to prepare for unified Korean state, without the attendant chaos. Following the Communist regime's collapse, the early stabilization of the North could fall unofficially to the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) and U.S. Forces Korea (which is a semiautonomous subcommand of PACOM), also wearing the blue UN helmets. But while the U.S. military would have operational responsibility, it would not have sole control. It would have to lead an unwieldy regional coalition that would need to deploy rapidly in order to stabilize the North and deliver humanitarian assistance. A successful relief operation in North Korea in the weeks following the regime's collapse could mean the difference between anarchy and prosperity on the peninsula for the years to come. If North Korea Attacks But what if rather than simply unraveling, the North launched a surprised attack on the South? This is probably less likely to happen now than it was, say two decades ago, when Kim Il Sung commanded a stronger state and the South Korean armed forces were less mature. Simply driving through Seoul, one of the world's great and congested megacities, makes it clear that a conventional infantry attack on South Korea's capital is something that not even a fool would contemplate. So if the North were to attack, it would likely resort instead to a low-grade demonstration of "shock and awe," using its 13,000 artillery pieces and multiple-rocket launchers to fire more than 300,000 shells per hour on the South Korean capital, where closeto half the nation's 49 million people live. The widespread havoc this would cause would be amplified by North Korean special-operational forces, which would infiltrate the South to sabotage water plants and train and bus terminals. Meanwhile, the North Korean People's Army would march on the city of Uijongbu, north of Seoul, from which it could cross over the Han River and bypass Seoul from the east. But this strategy would fail. While American A-10s, F-16s and other aircraft would destroy enemy missile batteries and kill many North Korean troops inside South Korea, submarine-launched missiles and B-2 bombers sent from Guam and Whiteman Air Force Bas in Missouri would take out strategic assets inside North Korea. In the meantime, the South Korean army would quickly occupy the transport hubs, while unleashing its own divisions and special-operation forces on the marauding People's army. The KFR knows this; thus any such invasion would have to be the act of regime in the latter phases of disintegration. North Korea's lone hope would be that the hourly carnage it could produce-in the time between the first artillery barrage on Seoul and the beginning of a robust military response by the South Korea and the United States-would lead the South Korean left, abetted by the United Nations and elements of the global media, to cry out for diplomacy and a negotiated settlement as an alternative violence. And there is no question: the violence would be horrific. Iraq and Afghanistan would look clean by comparison. A South Korea filled with North Korean troops would be a "target-rich environment," in which the good guys and the bad guys would always be close to each other. "The ultimate fog of war." The battlefield would be made more confusing by the serious language barrier that exists between American pilots and the South Korean JTACs, who would have to guide the the Americans to many of their targets. A-10 and F-16 pilots in South Korea have complained that this weak link in the bilateral military relationship would drive up the instances of friendly-fire and collateral civilian deaths-on wihch the media undoubtedly would then concentrate. As part of a deal to half the bloodbath, members of the KFR might be able to negotiate their own post-regime survival.

Ever heard of 'Africa'? (not going to list all the countries here)

whats everyone to busy dreaming about CTI for 12yr olds to respond to a question ? Perhaps if you have asked it without your derogatory remark then maybe someone might have done it by now.

BLB,UKF,Berghoffs Nature pack (sp?)

BLB,UKF.

AddOns: SCARS,WGL

Great shots BlackDog I liked this one. http://www.surfacezero.com/span/images/tigershark.jpg Made my day.

AFR Chinook. I'm sure that if you ask Afrograph/Afro (sp?) he will allow you to use his model as long as it gives credit to the original authors, as with any other addon makers.

Addons: LSRPJ,DMA

EDIT: Problem resolved. It was graphics card settings.

Addons: TQP,CATs Afghan,Anim Wilcos.

Addons: LSR,VITAPC,Llaumax,Editorupdate102,HennishHens Anim.

No, I don't think that the self preserving nation such as Israel will ever bite the hands that feeds them. Specially not now.

The stance in the USA will not change. As someone wrote, they prefer the 'status quo'. There is a reason why it is best to be on the fence, as it is in this case. Mainly monetary (ex:military contracts,etc) and political (ex:making the situation worse with the arab nations,etc). A very simple example is USAs history with the south american countries (ok, abit complicated but you see my point). As for "would it alter any perspectives of America in the Arab world", it is a case of 'I've already slept with another woman and we're going through a complicated devorce preceedings.' But since everyone's posting their own thoughts and that's what this board is for. I have to agree that Israels actions doesn't validate their actions what so ever. My 2.5 cents

To:BiGFooT_y2k On this picture; http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/5264/alah18om.jpg I would like to know which 'animation' you have used for the US soldier. I can recognize the anim but I can't seem to remember the actual name. Could you give me a link to the download? Thanks in advance. 868

Addons:GROM

Still didn't work. Basically, once the intro ends and moves on to the briefing page. As soon as I see the page (for about a split second) I get crashed to desktop. Taken from the Read me of the Fwatch; <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">You should use the '-nomap' commandline parameter with fwatch as with it Fwatch can use a much faster method for sending scripts for OFP.