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New Address: www.StrategyUnit.net

Hello Everyone, As part of the relaunching and restarting Strategy Unit, we have now moved to the new domain name at www.StrategyUnit.net and have updated our feeds to http://feeds.feedburner.com/strategyunit. So please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds accordingly! We're still migrating and updating content, so changes will be frequent but we look ...

StrategyUnit Maybe Coming Back?

StrategyUnit has been out-of-action for the past 2-3 months. New job position, bigger responsibilities and operating a second blog has been taking a toll. But with events continue to unfold and grow in importance, StrategyUnit will be returning albeit at a far lighter schedule, maybe 2-3 articles a month. Looking forward ...

Happy July 4th America!

Happy July 4th Everyone Your July 4th History Lesson of the Day: While this picture is often depicted as the signing of the declaration, it actually the drafting of the document. But alas, this picture by Trumbull, as a depicting the declaration, is now a tradition of sorts regardless of what ...

Annoucement: Hiatus from Blogging (Or at least a slow down)

Hello Everyone, between training a new guy in the office and moving…my time for posting on StrategyUnit will be severely limited. Plus, AT&T cant give me my DSL until March 25 or so! Crazy. If anyone would like to guest blog on my site, send me articles, tips, etc to post. ...

Annoucement: 3Bubbles Live Chat Enabled!

Hello Everyone, For my day job, I am an Internet marketer, so I happen upon lots of interesting Internet-related technologies all the time. One of them is 3Bubbles, a way to integrate live chat to every blog and web site. As one of the early beta testers, I’ve enabled chatting on ...

Annoucement: Contributors Welcome

Hello Everyone, Just wanted to thank everyone who has visited StrategyUnit and to those that have posted invaluable comments as well. StrategyUnit has only been online for only four months, but has attained decent visitor numbers and some recognition from greats like Zenpundit to Instapundit. I would like to state that ...

Happy Christmas-Hanukkah!

StrategyUnit will be back sometime later…nothing major until after the New Year. Happy Holidays and Have a Happy New Year

Veterans Day, November 11 - Support the Troops!

It is on this day that the Great War (World War I) ended and so everyone thought all wars would come to an end. And, it is for this day we commemorate Veteran’s Day. But, unfortunately, wars are still being fought…and now we are fighting in the Global War on ...

Weekend Reading: Tdaxp, The Saudis and Peak Oil, China a raising Superpower with an Army of Engineering Students (or not?)

My blogging has been on a very light schedule as I’ve got the cold. Its days like these I wish there some fellow contributors for this blog. That said, Here’s a list of what I think should be required reading for this weekend: Tdaxp – a New Blog (new to ...

RIP Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks helped spark the flame that ignited the Civil Rights Movement. The Washington Post looks - in memoriam

December 28th 2006
Tags: Commentary, Enviormental Security One Comment

Global Warming Preparedness and Security?

London Underwater, by the Telegraph 12/28/2006 Raising Water Levels on London and China's Drought/Grain Problem As we close 2006 and look to 2007, two global warming major reports - one from Finland and other from China - presents the increasingly dire environmental situation we are facing globally. And whether or not one ...
December 24th 2006
Tags: Commentary, Iran No Comments

The Strategy on Iran and The NY Times Retracted Op-Ed

Introduction: Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann's Retracted Op-Ed Many should know by the the issue involving White House censorship of the Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann's New York Times Op-Ed (see image on left). I have no issue regarding the prepublication review by the CIA's Publication Review Board to ensure to classified ...
November 28th 2006
Tags: Europe, Islamic Terrorism 3 Comments

751 No-Go-Zones in France: The Gap Societies

A "Zones Urbaines Sensibles" (No-Go-Zone) in Nice, France (PDF) . Via Thomas Barnett, Daniel Pipes discusses the 751 Zones Urbaines Sensibes (Sensitive Urban zones) demarcated by the French Government, which are "are conveniently listed on one long webpage, complete with street demarcations and map delineations." Daniel goes on to state: What are they? Those ...

The Mujahideen Network in Spain: Supporting Fighters in Iraq

Quick Post In Jamestown Foundation's Terrorism Focus (11/21/06), there are reports that "agents of the Spanish National Police in Madrid arrested four men because of their involvement in a document falsification ring that had, as its primary mission, the objective of providing documentation cover to "mujahideen" leaving Iraq and trying to ...
November 25th 2006
Tags: 4gw, Iraq and Afghanistan One Comment

Iraqi Global Guerrillas and the Sustainable Ecology

Iraqi Guerrillas are now Financially Self-Sufficient Only last week did John Robb at Global Guerrillas noted that: Iraq's non-state guerrillas aren't mere proxies of Iran. Instead, they are largely autonomous. First, these groups don't rely upon Iran for their operating income since they can manufacture income through participation in black globalization's multi-trillion dollar ...

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