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- The Wrong War
The Pentagon aren’t the only ones who can’t kick their addiction to Cold War thinking. According to a recent PINR report, Russia is having a tough time facing up to the kinds of fighting it will actually face in the future. Sergei Ivanov, Russia’s Defense Minister, published a report similar to our Q.D.R. on world [...]
- Half-masted controversy
Younghusband at Parliament, Peace Tower flag at full mast
Currently in Canada a controversy roils over whether the government should lower the flag on the Parliament Buildings to half-mast in honour of the four soldiers recently killed in Afghanistan. There are extremely specific rules when the Peace Tower flag can be lowered: on Rememrance Day; upon [...]
- RDK - Imperial Grunts Audio Interview
Hey, you know us. It’s all Kaplan all the time!
James Card sends in a link to a downloadable 20 minute inteview with Robert D. Kaplan on IT Conversations. The interview is primarily a re-hashing of Imperial Grunts, but it is always fun to hear Kap say “Gatorade Enema.”
Anywho, keep sending in those Kaplan interviews and [...]
- Case Study in Domestic PNM Theory III
Part I | Part II
We see that Barnett’s four flows (People, Values, Security, Money) are seriously out of whack in my city’s Gap. As in a previous post, I’ve changed the Energy flow to “Values,” the most complicated of all (which includes culture). People enjoy freedom of movement, the same legal rights and protections as [...]
- Survival, sniping, H2H combat and explosives
Need to brush up on your fighting skills? Check out this deposit of Army Field Manuals. You can download the PDFs for free in preparation of your next trip to the Sudan. GlobalSecurity.org has a much more extensive list of manuals but unfortunately they are mostly in HTML. I would hate to have to boot [...]
- The Wars Live On
Today there are two notable anniversaries. The first is from World War I. I blogged it last year with pictures from my trip to Turkey but this year Eddie has the scoop on ANZAC Day which he experienced in Australia.
Two years ago, I had the great luxury to have a port visit in Perth [...]
- Inevitabilities Not Possibilities
Yesterday, I emailed Dr. Thomas Barnett with the following question as part of his “Ask Tom” idea. He’d written a great deal about Iran and his solution to our current crisis but I was curious as to why he hadn’t addressed the possible consequences. Here was my question
Dear Tom, You continue to make convincing arguments [...]
- “I am alive”
Big Pharaoh reports directly from Egypt regarding today’s terrorist attacks:
I am alive. I’m far away from Dahab but the security situation is very tight where I am. I had plans to go to Dahab though. I called a friend who went back to Cairo from Dahab yesterday and he told me that two of his [...]
- 9/11 from space
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- Hostile Maneuvers, Reloaded
In a followup to this post from November of last year,
107 Alerts on Chinese Spy Planes
Japan has scrambled fighter jets 107 times this year to intercept suspected Chinese spy planes, a top general said Thursday, amid growing concern in Tokyo over China’s arms buildup. The 107 alerts in the first three months of 2006 [...]
