Entrepreneur, author, analyst. Co-option is one of the most important levers open source counterinsurgency specialists have. (Think the Awakening or ISCI cells in Helmand.) As such, several key component groups of MEND have been bought out of the system: Eleven former warlords, who were themselves commanders of various camps of the MEND, spread across Nigeria’s southern oil patch, said [...]
We saw this in 2008. Oil and food inflation (partly driven by the former, as well as ethanol) and spiking gas prices. Given that the public’s patience has been sapped (marked by protests all over the world) by gross mismanagement of the economy, this has the makings of a really messy summer. The fall in [...]
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So. Complex aircraft are designed to operate within a certain design envelope. Such as flying through air. Not glass, sand, and rock particles. What do you do when, suddenly, the normally stable environment literally explodes, spewing streams of exactly that into the flight paths of thousands of aircraft? You stop the system and start testing [...]