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Topic: Enemy Mine


In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  Mine Warfare as waged by the Viet Cong & NVA
Mine Warfare as waged by the Viet Cong and NVA
The majority of enemy mines are handmade by the VC using U.S. duds, discarded ammunition and equipment, and materials thrown away by U.S. forces as trash.
As we improve in our ability to detect mines, the enemy counters with new twists such as increased use of booby traps attached to a basic mine to create casualties among mine-clearing personnel; larger mines buried deeper with reduced activation pressure; and pressure electric detonators with offset devices to explode mines under vehicles.
www.diggerhistory.info /pages-weapons/mines02.htm   (1304 words)

  
 Enemy Mine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enemy Mine is a science fiction story by Barry B. Longyear.
There is also, in the film but not the original novella, a subplot involving an abandoned mine.
According to Longyear, this was added at the insistence of the studio, which was afraid that the audience would not understand that the Mine of the title was an adjective.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enemy_Mine   (310 words)

  
 Counter measures to Viet Cong mine warfare
The most effective way to counter the enemy's mine and booby trap threat is to destroy this threat at its source; i.e., the elimination of the VC/NVA mine and booby trap factories and the sources of supply for these factories.
More important than neutralizing the enemy's mine and booby trap factories, is the denial to the enemy of the source of supply with which he operates these factories; i.e., unexploded U.S. ordnance, discarded equipment and improperly destroyed trash.
Mines and booby traps may be destroyed or neutralized by use of grappling hooks, demolitions, and artillery fires.
www.diggerhistory.info /pages-weapons/mines03.htm   (2749 words)

  
 FM 5-102 Chptr 5 Mine Warfare
Interdiction minefields are placed on the enemy or in his rear areas to kill, disorganize, disrupt lines of communication and command and control facilities.
Current and future developments in mines and mine delivery systems are extensive, insuring that mines will be one of the most formidable assets on the battlefield.
The echelon of command vested with the authority to emplace mines varies with the purpose of the minefield and type of mines (conventional or scatterable).
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/policy/army/fm/5-102/Ch52.HTM   (3554 words)

  
 Chapter XI: Suoi Cat (2 December 1966)
Enemy fire was intensified before the appearance of A Troop to allow the Viet Cong to disengage and move to withdrawal routes.
Enemy mines and booby traps caused approximately 70 percent of the vehicle losses and 20 percent of the casualties.
The mine dog and new mine detectors were adaptations of earlier techniques, while the most significant innovation was the concept of engaging the minelayer before the mine was planted.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/tactical/chapter11.htm   (3355 words)

  
 GateWorld - Stargate SG-1 Reviews: 'Enemy Mine'
"Enemy Mine" was like a welcome glass of ice cold water after a long drought, with its familiar yet new Unas tribes, the return of Chaka, the sacred ground, the artifacts, and the cultural behaviours that had to be learned before there was a massacre.
"Enemy Mine" was stuffed to bursting with adventure, tension, excitement, culture and moral dilemma, and started out with the team, minus Sam, doing their thing.
With "Enemy Mine" focusing on such intense issues, it was a shame to see the ending played out in rather a saccharine manner.
www.gateworld.net /sg1/s7/reviews/707b.shtml   (974 words)

  
 DVD Review - Enemy Mine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Enemy Mine" tells the story of a man and an alien stranded on a foreign and uninhabited planet.
"Enemy Mine" follows this trend with a pretty good-looking anamorphic widescreen transfer (2.35:1).
I was surprised by the sharpness of detail in the various rocky sets of the foreign planet and the face of the alien himself.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/enemy_mine.shtml   (1303 words)

  
 DVDActive - Reviews - Video Discs - Enemy Mine (US - DVD R1)
Not having seen Enemy Mine for a while I was hoping that it would not be a disappointment.
Enemy Mine is 1985 cult Sci Fi hit starring a young-looking Dennis Quaid (Frequency) and Louis Gossett Jnr.
As I said at the beginning of this review Enemy Mine is an 80’s film and you are reminded of that throughout the movie.
www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/enemy-mine.html   (1180 words)

  
 Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A few days later, George telephoned me about "Enemy Mine." As I recall it, he said there were some problems with the piece and he was sending it to Isaac Asimov for an opinion.
One reader wrote in to say that she was reading it on the bus going to work and she was crying so much, it was all she could do to fight off the help from numbers of her well-intentioned fellow passengers so she could finish the damned story.
"Enemy Mine" and another story of mine were both up for awards, and I was up for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, as well.
www.sff.net /people/bblongyear/EnemyMine.html   (1982 words)

  
 Enemy Mine: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Enemy Mine is a science fiction Science fiction quick summary:
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as...
The name Davidge is added to the lineage when the lineage is next recounted says the voice-over as the film ends and the credits begin.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/en/enemy_mine.htm   (589 words)

  
 Enemy mine | Samizdata.net
The enemy firmly believes they are right: if they did not they would not be dying for their cause.
I agree with Shannon that the intentional targeting of civilians is the line between an enemy I struggle with, destroy, or perhaps compromise with because of an extreme conflict of interest, and a terrorist who should be exterminated with prejudice.
An enemy chooses their weapons from amongst those which are available and potentially effective or else they surrender.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/008578.html   (6437 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Enemy Mine: Books: Jewel Dartt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
ENEMY MINE is a vampire story of soul mates, with a lot more.
ENEMY MINE has a conclusion that I never imagined, even though I flew through the pages expecting things to turn out a certain way.
ENEMY MINE is a heart-warming, passionate novel of a love that survives death, and a testament to not judging by preconceived notions.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1586978160?v=glance   (1957 words)

  
 Morbid Outlook - The Body of Mine Enemy
Mine enemy’s cruel laughter – the cold iron muzzle pressing against my temple – the shot ringing through my head...
Most of my collection has remained: Mine Enemy must have deemed them worth keeping, though not for their anthropological value.
Mine Enemy has appointed the parlor with ridiculous engines fashioned out of some unknown metal.
www.morbidoutlook.com /fiction/stories/2000_05_mineenemy.html   (732 words)

  
 Enemy Mine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Enemy Mine" by Barry B. Longyear won the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novella presented in 1980; it also won the Locus Poll for Best Novella and on the strength of this early promise the author also won the John W.
The special twist to "Enemy Mine" is that Jeriba Shigan, the alien Drac, who it turns out is hermaphrodite and pregnant, dies giving birth to a child, who is then brought up by Willis Davidge, the human, until they are both rescued.
I guess that the reason "Enemy Mine" is not generally regarded as a piece of classic sf is simply that the aliens are not alien enough.
explorers.whyte.com /sf/enem.htm   (994 words)

  
 Enemy Mine in Dances with Wolves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The plot seems to be interested in portraying bigotry as the main enemy; the Pawnee Indians are thus enemies to a lesser degree because they are indiscriminate killers.
"Enemy Mine" also shows that one's enemies -in this case, Dracs- are not necessarily the criminals they were originally thought or made out to be.
Although "Enemy Mine" was nominated for a Hugo (best science fiction movies award among members of the World Science Fiction Convention), it did not enjoy much box-office success, probably due to its second-rate special effects [2].
www.lasierra.edu /~dlin/movies/dances.htm   (1735 words)

  
 Egypt took sides in the U.S. war on terror and paid the price at Taba. By Lee Smith
The sheer audacity and magnitude of the massive blow struck against the United States was designed to galvanize undecided Muslims by convincing them that the Islamist militants were irresistibly powerful and that the United States, the arrogant protector of apostate regimes in the Middle East and North Africa, was abhorrently weak.
This perception is one reason a few Egyptian spokesmen are twisting themselves in knots by either claiming the attacks are "very related to what is going on in Gaza" or that Israel itself is responsible.
If—as Zawahiri's concept of the nearby and faraway enemy holds—al-Qaida decided to target the United States because the Islamist movement had little success striking at Egypt, then it is important to consider why they have returned to a battleground where they were systematically decimated.
www.slate.com /id/2108163   (1451 words)

  
 Enemy Mine (1985)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The movie is an exciting story of two marooned enemy space soldiers.
They are indoctrinated with hate for each other's species, yet forced to live together to survive.
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Enemy Mine (1985)
www.imdb.com /title/tt0089092   (381 words)

  
 Enemy Mine - Maurice Jarre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Enemy Mine is the story of a human and alien trapped together on a world who must overcome their hate for each other to survive.
For Enemy Mine he uses both synths and orchestra in one of his most pleasing efforts.
One of Jarre's most approachable synth efforts, Enemy Mine is well worth hearing, even if you tend to prefer his orchestral efforts.
www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/enemymine.htm   (375 words)

  
 SCIFI.COM | Stargate SG-1
Edwards discovers a Naquadah mine that could yield enough of the rare, off-world mineral to build many interstellar battle cruisers and other spacecraft.
Daniel's suspicions are confirmed when Teal'c and SG-3 find another entrance to the mine, near which Ritter's body is hung up like a scarecrow among some Jaffa warriors' skeletons that are similarly displayed.
Back at the camp, Daniel tells Edwards that the Unas consider the mine a sacred place and it should be protected from industrial development.
www.scifi.com /stargate/episodes/season7/0707   (580 words)

  
 Enemy Mine - DVD Movie Central
In the beginning, the print looked somewhat grainy and soft, but this is probably due more to the fact that Enemy Mine is another tragic victim of Super 35 film.
Next was a theatrical trailer for Enemy Mine in full screen non Anamorphic with surround sound, and finally, Fox Flix, which had trailers for Aliens, Alien Nation, Independence Day, The Abyss, and finally Zardoz.
In conclusion, Enemy Mine is a pretty good, if sometimes forgotten, eighties sci-fi classic that deserves better on DVD.
www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/enemy_mine.htm   (748 words)

  
 ENEMY MINE
Enemy Mine suffers from what can be called the Sleepless in Seattle school of film-making: there must be a happy ending at all costs!
Because Enemy Mine insists on its happy (and extremely unlikely!) ending, the film suffers because of it.
But at a point in Enemy Mine one doesn't know how the several plot issues it throws up will be resolved.
www.scifimoviepage.com /enemy.html   (516 words)

  
 The Enemy Papers by Barry B. Longyear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There have been a lot of changes in me and in publishing since "Enemy" first appeared in Nineteen seventy-nine, but there is a strange continuity in the universe that saw three hundred worlds at war as Dracs and humans worked out the steps of their deadly dance.
When told "I really loved the movie Enemy Mine," this is the version the author will force you to read on the spot, most likely at gunpoint.
The full, uncut, never before told tale of the writings of "Enemy Mine," The Tomorrow Testament, and The Last Enemy, including the making of the motion picture Enemy Mine, and how the author recovered from it all by smacking his head repeatedly on his Wang.
www.sff.net /people/bblongyear/EnemyPapers.html   (5961 words)

  
 Enemy Mine
ENEMY MINE penned by Kay Hooper starts out with a bang, literally, with Tyler and Kane climbing the side of a cliff trying to escape a sniper.
While not what the reader expects from Kay Hooper as it is not a paranormal suspense novel; none the less ENEMY MINE is superbly written and this reviewer is definitely looking forward to more from Ms.
ENEMY MINE comes very highly recommended by this reviewer for anyone who likes their romance spiced up with interesting locations and danger.
www.loveromances.com /enemymine_shaiha.html   (290 words)

  
 Enemy Mine - VHS - Title E Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Enermy mine is the 80's sci fi classic directed by Wolfgang Petersen (Cliffhanger and Perfect Storm).
Enemy Mine is essentially a sci-fi update of an old movie plot.
Two mismatched men - enemies - are forced to spend time together and through experience gain respect for one another and become friends.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /vhs-title-e/enemy-mine   (267 words)

  
 Enemy Mine : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There is very little that can be said about the production that truly make it standout from similar production except perhaps when mentionning the staggering spiritual values presented in enemy mines.
It is a great film that the whole family will enjoy because of its multi faceted production peperred around the gathering of two mortal enemy that ultimately learn to befriend each other in an hostile environment.
and his mortal enemy, earthling Dennis Quaid, crash-land on a hostile planet during a brutal space battle.
www.pagenation.com /an/B00008F22H.html   (877 words)

  
 SciFlicks.com ---> Enemy Mine - The SciFlicks Guide - Sounds, Pictures...
A soldier from Earth and his Drac enemy crash-land on an alien world after sustaining battle damage.
Also, enjoy some Enemy Mine facts, read a Enemy Mine review and share your thoughts or write your own review in the Enemy Mine discussion forum.
There are also some very cool Enemy Mine posters on display.
www.sciflicks.com /enemy_mine   (201 words)

  
 enemy mine - film review for zone-sf.com
Wolfgang Petersen's emotive sci-fi movie Enemy Mine is a relative jack-in-the-box of surprises.
Petersen convinces the viewer that Quaid and his alien enemy really are on some desolate planet with seemingly no visible means of escape.
Of all the surprises offered up by Enemy Mine, the most pleasing was the fact that the movie never descends into a firefight between the two opposing creatures.
www.zone-sf.com /enemymine.html   (1093 words)

  
 Enemy Mine News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Enemy Mine News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Opening Statement Who is an enemy, and who is a friend?
Ostensibly, that is the question presented by Enemy Mine, Wolfgang Petersen's entry into...
www.topix.net /movies/enemy-mine   (91 words)

  
 Enemy Mine - Movie Review
In the space opera Enemy Mine, two men -- one human, one Klingon-inspired alien -- face off after crash landing on a hostile planet.
Their species are at war, but they have to work together if they're to survive until...
Without exception, listings shall not be taken as an endorsement of any kind whatsoever.
excite.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/enemymine   (105 words)

  
 Enemy Mine (707) - GateWorld Forum
Okay, it seems that almost every human civilization SG teams meet speak English (unless you're watching it on Telemundo) and now they made it so that Unas on other planets speak the same language too.
that one leader on the mine was a jerk.
I've always liked how Daniel was the team member who always tried to preserve peace and always had great repect for other cultures, races and creatures.
forum.gateworld.net /showthread.php?t=276   (1160 words)

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