Category: Insurgencies
Hump day insurgency primer: because insurgencies are always fought on the inside. Features current and historical studies of insurgencies and counterinsurgencies.
We are continuing our series of a featured article from the sidebar of What Others are Writing Section on the Homepage. Once again, there were several candidates for today’s feature with these centered around the continuing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan that
Featured Article: Behind China’s threat to support insurgency in India – Asia Times
We are continuing our new series of a featured article from the sidebar of What Others are Writing Section on the Homepage. There were several candidates for today’s feature, with a special shout out to The War on the Rocks’ The Last Jihadi Superstar (is it o.k. to
Podcasts and Featured Articles: The Indus Valley and Leadership in Pakistan
I am getting into a pretty good workable groove updating the What Others are Writing section on the sidebar with the intent that each of you can find at least one interesting article per day or it can serve as a way of keeping track of world headlines in regards to foreign
Tuesday Terror Update on Wednesday: The Importance of Reviewing Original Documents
Well my Tuesday terror update got moved to Wednesday. The Generation Jihad podcast is a MUST listen if you care at all about the fight against the Islamic State. I basically listened to all 85 minutes twice! Listen to the podcast, watch the Frontline piece that we discussed
Book / Paper Discussion: Best Practices in Counterinsurgency
The plan for this book review space is to provide a more detailed discussion on a specific book or in this case paper than a review. If we are reading a book, I would like to discuss it chapter by chapter to better understand the content. That way we can try to note
Counterinsurgencies: Che Guevara
When I was in the second half of the MOS portion of the 18D course, we were doing our clinical rotations, I was assigned to work in a hospital on a Basic Training Post. For the first few weeks it was pretty standard sick call type stuff, emergency room rotations labor and
FRONTLINE Episode 4: Taliban Country
Nothing too weird to report on the corona-virus lock down today. The kids all had a relatively light day of school work and I have given up on trying to fix some of their technical issues. I do have a trip to the ABC Store in my future. For today’s Speaker Series publication
The Kurdish Workers Party vs. The Chechen Separatists
The Kurdish Workers Party vs. The Chechen Separatists The Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which primarily operate out of Turkey, and The Chechen Separatists which are located in the Northern Caucasus Mountains of Russia are two terrorist organization that utilize suicide