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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 ...

The Human Swarm and the End of Conventional Warfare

  Palestinian Children Gather as Human Shields (Source) Irregular Warfare: Exploiting Morals and Values of the Enemy  Recently, Israel was pushed towards deferring launching airstrikes against Hamas, to retailiate against continuing rocket attacks against Israel. Hamas was able to effectively leverage the use of human shields to deter Israel, as reported by AP in ...

Jyllands-Posten Muhammad Cartoons: Where Does the EU Stand on Civic Freedoms?

Via Volokh.com, the EU Justice and Security Commissioner has recently declared: The European Union may try to draw up a media code of conduct to avoid a repeat of the furor caused by the publication across Europe of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, an EU commissioner said on Thursday. In an interview ...

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 ...

Winter Break Reading at Strategy Unit

Winter work break is a good time to do some catch-up reading. Just in case youre curious, here’s the reading list. It ranges from the political stuff to Arthurian romances to SU’s obligatory readings in Slavic literature. If you have any suggestions, feel free to mention them in the comments section. “The ...

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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