War links
About the Mongol art of war and possible ecological limits thereto.
Maps of the various Iranian empires. Map of the maximum (over-extended) extent of the Sassanian empire. About the patterns of Romano-Persian conflict. About the Sassanian army.
Problems with the notion of Effect Based Operations. (Reminds me a bit of problems with outcome-oriented education.)
Arguing for an organization to confront jihadi ideology directly.
The Indian crime-boss who is also a jihadi.
A timeline of the Mumbai attacks. It represented sophisticated and innovative (for terrorism) squad tactics, with indicative links to Pakistan. Including up-to-date “buddy pair” tactics. (Also used in a 2006 crime gang attack across Sao Paulo.) A modern updating of tactics that date back to the Prophet. Hotel staff risked (and sometimes lost) their lives to protect guests. A sweeper shot dead by terrorist who asked for water. A photographer who witnessed and photographed the attacks at the railway station and who regrets he did not have a gun. As elite commandos kill the last of the gunmen, India says that they came from Pakistan. The difficulties faced by the commandos, and evidence of local accomplices. The interrogation of the only survivor, who decided he did not want to die, provides information that the operation took a year to plan from inside Pakistani-ruled Kashmir and apparently claims training by the Pakistani navy. The Pakstani government is denying any involvement. Past Pakistani support for jihadi organisations may have spun out of control. India demands 20 fugitives from Pakistan. An Israeli official suggests the Indian commandos started storming the hotel somewhat prematurely. Fears that the total death toll may reach 300.
India has become a big arms customer of Israel.
Somali families in Minnesota are worried that their young men are returning to Somalia to fight. More.
18 women recruited as suicide bombers have surrendered to Coalition forces in Iraq after being persuaded to do so by family and clerics. The optimists in Iraq think there will be a spike in violence as the US forces withdraw, the pessimists think it will fall apart. Baghdad from a Blackhawk.
The interesting difficulties of the Alawite-dominated Ba'ath regime in Syria.
Maps of the various Iranian empires. Map of the maximum (over-extended) extent of the Sassanian empire. About the patterns of Romano-Persian conflict. About the Sassanian army.
Problems with the notion of Effect Based Operations. (Reminds me a bit of problems with outcome-oriented education.)
Arguing for an organization to confront jihadi ideology directly.
The Indian crime-boss who is also a jihadi.
A timeline of the Mumbai attacks. It represented sophisticated and innovative (for terrorism) squad tactics, with indicative links to Pakistan. Including up-to-date “buddy pair” tactics. (Also used in a 2006 crime gang attack across Sao Paulo.) A modern updating of tactics that date back to the Prophet. Hotel staff risked (and sometimes lost) their lives to protect guests. A sweeper shot dead by terrorist who asked for water. A photographer who witnessed and photographed the attacks at the railway station and who regrets he did not have a gun. As elite commandos kill the last of the gunmen, India says that they came from Pakistan. The difficulties faced by the commandos, and evidence of local accomplices. The interrogation of the only survivor, who decided he did not want to die, provides information that the operation took a year to plan from inside Pakistani-ruled Kashmir and apparently claims training by the Pakistani navy. The Pakstani government is denying any involvement. Past Pakistani support for jihadi organisations may have spun out of control. India demands 20 fugitives from Pakistan. An Israeli official suggests the Indian commandos started storming the hotel somewhat prematurely. Fears that the total death toll may reach 300.
India has become a big arms customer of Israel.
Somali families in Minnesota are worried that their young men are returning to Somalia to fight. More.
18 women recruited as suicide bombers have surrendered to Coalition forces in Iraq after being persuaded to do so by family and clerics. The optimists in Iraq think there will be a spike in violence as the US forces withdraw, the pessimists think it will fall apart. Baghdad from a Blackhawk.
The interesting difficulties of the Alawite-dominated Ba'ath regime in Syria.