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On Blackwater The Book
I concur with MountainRunner’s assessment, Jeremy Scahill’s book is, at its very core, sensationalist and irrelevant. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
COIN + Gravity Wells
Grim draws the parallels to astrophysics and makes a pretty decent primer to COIN. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Walls In Iraq
WP – Oil-spot to the extreme? The U.S. military is walling off at least 10 of Baghdad’s most violent neighborhoods and using biometric technology to track some of their residents, creating what officers call “gated communities” in an attempt to … Continue reading
Turkey Prepares For Iraq
MENL – Turkey was said to have drafted plans for a major military operation in northern Iraq over the next few weeks. Turkish sources said a force of at least 10,000 troops, backed by main battle tanks, armored vehicles, helicopters … Continue reading
Systemic Breakdown Of White House Security
ABC – I would go so far as to say that information is more valuable than personnel at the WH and as such should be more of a priority than personnel security. But this doesn’t seem to be a view shared … Continue reading