Update 01: See Dan Darling’s response here at Winds of Change.
As you can tell from my postings, I haven’t made much commentary regarding the situation in Iraq. This is chiefly because others (see the links on the right) already do a great job at analyzing the situation and the situation ...
I’ve been following the ICANN issue pretty closely but there’s not too much to say until the scheduled UN meeting next month. (Check out previous posting on this blog “Will the Internet Remain Truly Global“and Battle for the Internet - Update 1.)
But, I did come across a great article by ...
This is continuing with yesterday’s post “Great Game Revisited (again) and the Green Revolution“.
On the Caucasus
Any attention the U.S. press pays attention to the southern Russia is only limited to Afghanistan and more to Central Asia, with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan. But not enough attention is paid to the deteriorating ...
Central Asia and the Caucasus share the pecular trait of being important geopolitical points, yet so little understood or cared about in the mainstream media. To do my part in remedying that, I’d like to point out to a great article on Central Asia (which more often gets some U.S. ...
October 19th 2005
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It looks like Thomas Barnett’ s publisher is in full PR swing in anticipatian of his new book, “Blueprint for Action : A Future Worth Creating“.
I’ve mentioned Barnett in several of my papers and a posting here regarding “Open Source Warfare“.
Check out the United Press Article, with the ...
October 18th 2005
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Thomas Barnett, noted writer and blogger who served in various areas in the DoD, shot off a rebuttle against John Robb’s Open Source Warfare article I mentioned last weekend in “Open Source War, Global Guerillas in Iraq“.
For those unfamilar with Barnett, he is famous for his article, now book , ...
Introduction
Last week, we see yet another violent manifestation of Russia as a deteriorating state in the Nalchik Raid; Nalchik is the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, about 870 miles south of Moscow. Unlike in Beslan or the Moscow Threatre, this time it was a large force of 300 fighters concentrating their attack ...
October 15th 2005
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Everyone has this topic covered, so I decided to post this one picture from Iraq The Model’s web site:
“Father and son, post voting.”
Links to check out:
Winds Of Change - “The referendum: the beginning of the end”
Oxblog - “WaPo VS. NYT: WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN IRAQ?”
Belmont Club: The End of th ...
One of my first few postings (here and here)were about a recent spat between the US control over ICANN and pressure from the EU and UN (most vocally Brazil, Iran, China and Saudi Arabia) to bring control of ICANN, with a further rounds of meetings planned for November at Tunis.
Here ...
As you can tell from my postings, John Robb at the Global Guerillas Blog is one of my favourite analyst when it comes to fourth generation war and views on the war in Iraq. Today, Robb writes an excellent op-ed in the New York Times on the nature of the ...
