Friday photo of the day (UPDATED)

So yeah, it's cool that U.S. troops are marching in the Victory Day parade in Moscow today, etc etc. Security cooperation, building bridges between past allies, remembering our mutual sacrifices in the destruction of the Nazi specter and so on and so forth. But easily the awesomest thing about this whole story is this picture of U.S. TROOPS MARCHING ACROSS RED SQUARE.

If you don't watch it, Russkies, next time they'll be serious!

(Ok, not really. (Well, probably not.))

UPDATE: Two more pictures from the day of the parade. First from the NYT...

...second from Danger Room (thanks to karakapend in the comments for this one).

Awesome.

Photo of the day

This awesome picture from the Guardian's website, depicting a couple of hard-chargers from the 97th MP Battalion contesting the Yakutsk-Kamchatka frontier in a can in Kandahar, was sent to us by friend of the blog Vanessa (twitter: RIVanessa).

The Guardian's unfortunate caption notes that the guys are taking a break from training Iraqi police. In Kandahar. (Oops.)

Take Charge!

Beautiful Photos from Eastern Congo

The New York Times has these beautiful photographs from Eastern Congo.

There's more I want to write about but I just got back from a business trip to New York and need to finish follow up...so weapons trafficking will have to wait a bit (though with my luck, it's probably actually work to look at it).

In the meantime, go take a look at those photos.