THE ASYMMETRIC WARFARE: IN SEARCH OF A SYMMETRY. Higher political vulnerability – i.e., impatient, war-weary publics or self-interested elites might forcetheir leaders to stop the conflict short of its initial objectives/war aims.
Thomas Laqueur reviews ‘The Sleepwalkers’ by Christopher Clark · LRB 5 December 2013. Fifty years ago, Barbara Tuchman’s bestseller The Guns of August taught a generation of Americans about the origins of the First World War: the war, she wrote, was unnecessary, meaningless and stupid, begun by overwhelmed, misguided and occasionally mendacious statesmen and diplomats who stumbled into a catastrophe whose horrors they couldn’t begin to imagine – ‘home before the leaves fall,’ they thought.
It was in many ways a book for its time. Tuchman’s story begins with Edward VII’s funeral on 20 May 1910. Contemporary Security Policy - Volume 26, Issue 2. Taylor & Francis Online. Taylor & Francis Online. Taylor & Francis Online. FOURTH GENERATION WARFARE. Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, Who Ousted U.S. From Vietnam, Is Dead.
As Bomb Readied, Japan Seeks Surrender Terms. Nuclear missile Viagra for India « Eric Margolis. April 21, 2012 “India launches first intercontinental ballistic missile,” the world media misreported this week.
True enough, India did launch a new, 5,000 km-ranged Agni-V missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead to Beijing and Shanghai. Previously, India’s 3,500-km Agni-III did not have the range to hit China’s major coastal cities. But Agni-V is not an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), as wrongly reported. Nor was the missile North Korea launched on 15 April that fell apart soon after liftoff. One longs for the days when media employed real war correspondents who understood military affairs. DoD’s 30-Year Aviation Plan. How to Lose a War: A Primer. [by Mark Safranski a.k.a.
"zen"] Since Pakistan is now attempting to get its victory over the United States in Afghanistan formally ratified, now seemed to be a good time to reflect on the performance of American statesmen, politicians and senior generals. It has occurred to me that we have many books and papers outlining how to win wars. Certainly the great classics of The Art of War, The History of the Peloponnesian War and On War are the foremost examples, but there are also other useful classics in the strategic canon, whole libraries of military histories, memoirs of great commanders and an infinite number of PDFs and powerpoint briefs from think tanks and consultants.
Strangely, none of these have helped us much. We should engage in some counterintuitive thinking: for our next war, instead of trying to win, let’s try to openly seek defeat. U.N. condemns North Korean rocket launch, stops short of penalties. “The Security Council deplored this launch,” said U.S.
Ambassador Susan E. An excerpt from Fred Kaplan’s “The Insurgents” Chapter 1 “What We Need Is an Officer with Three Heads” A few days shy of his twenty-fifth birthday, John Nagl saw his future disappear.
The first tremors came at dawn, on February 24, 1991, as he revved up the engine of his M-1 tank and plowed across the Saudi Arabian border into the flat, endless sands of southern Iraq. For the previous month, American warplanes had bombarded Saddam Hussein’s military machine to the point of exhaustion. Schwarzkopf (RIP) and How the United States got Bogged Down in the Middle East. Gen.
Norman H. Schwarzkopf is dead at 78. He died of pneumonia. Schwarzkopf was among the military leaders who repositioned the United States as a Middle Eastern hegemon. Pain Continues after War for American Drone Pilot. For more than five years, Brandon Bryant worked in an oblong, windowless container about the size of a trailer, where the air-conditioning was kept at 17 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit) and, for security reasons, the door couldn't be opened. Bryant and his coworkers sat in front of 14 computer monitors and four keyboards. When Bryant pressed a button in New Mexico, someone died on the other side of the world. Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war. Heroes into victims - Tatiana Zhurzhenko The Second World War in post-Soviet memory politics.
In post-Soviet societies, narratives of suffering have overtaken heroic triumphalism.
Tatiana Zhurzhenko examines reasons for this shift, asking whether new victim narratives reconcile former enemies or provide additional opportunities to articulate hostilities. "After the collapse of the great utopias that were at the core of the old missionary universalism of modernity, a new universalism of mourning patterns the public rituals of national identity – the victims assume the position that, before, was the place of heroes. " Bernhard Giesen, Triumph and Trauma In 2007 I happened to visit Chop (Hungarian: Czap), a small town with a sizable Hungarian minority on the western border of Ukraine. Founded in the late nineteenth century, it belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until the First World War and then went to Czechoslovakia after the Trianon Treaty.
John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power - John Andreas Olsen. British and Indian War Dead in Afghanistan, 1838-1843, Honored by Mumbai Church (Photos) Plaque in the Church of St.
John the Evangelist (the Afghan Church), Colaba, Mumbai (Bombay) (Photograph by Juan Cole, March, 2011) Interior of the church: Number of US troops killed inside Afghanistan since 2001: 1776. TNI Vol 6 Game of Drones HI RES. CHAPTER VI - THE AIR CAMPAIGN - Planning. CONTENTS - Planning.
Phil Strongman: Hiroshima is a war crime that haunts my family, 67 years on - Commentators - Opinion. At 8.15am an American B-29 bomber had dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima. The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan... Stalin Did - By Ward Wilson. The U.S. use of nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II has long been a subject of emotional debate. Initially, few questioned President Truman's decision to drop two atomic bombs, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Everything We Know So Far About Drone Strikes. A U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle. The U.S. is conducting drone strikes in in at least three countries beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.
Exit, Minus Strategy - By James Traub. President Barack Obama listened to his generals the first time around; now he knows better. Gitmo's Fallen Czar - By Michelle Shephard. The Number: $44.6 Billion. The military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, considered together, will be the most expensive war in American history. Karzai: US leaving drones to Afghanistan. As part of a deal worked out with the White House during a recent visit, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his country would be getting its own drone fleet from the U.S.
Barack Obama says Guantanamo Bay prison must close. 30 April 2013Last updated at 16:53 ET President Obama: "Guantanamo is not necessary to keep America safe... it is a recruitment tool for extremists; it needs to be closed" US President Barack Obama has pledged a new push to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amid a growing prisoner hunger strike there. At the White House, Mr Obama said the detention centre was "contrary to who we are" and harmful to US interests. Hunger Striking at Guantánamo Bay. The fun-filled ocean resort at Guantánamo Bay. If you're looking for a fun activity-filled resort to take your family for a summer vacation, you simply cannot do better than Club GTMO, according to a new glossy travel guide just published by Robert Johnson, the Military and Defense Editor of Business Insider, under the guise of a news article.
Scrumptious meals. Video games galore for the kids. Outdoor sports. Dirty dancing and spaces of exception in Pakistan. With Brennan Pick, a Light on Drone Strikes’ Hazards. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004. Untitled. The Art of War. The Art of War Debate. Liberal racial hypocrisy. Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden - Treatment of Veteran Who Shot bin Laden. John Brennan's C.I.A. Director Hearings and the So-Called Americans. Top Ten Surprises of the Brennan Hearing on CIA Torture and Drones. Mali war costs debt-laden France 70 million euros - FRANCE - MALI. Top Five Objections to the White House's Drone Killing Memo.
CIA operating drone base in Saudi Arabia, US media reveal. The Secret History of US Drone Strikes in 2012 (Woods et al.) US Covert War in Yemen Receives Support from Saudi Air Force. A Special Supplement: The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Noam Chomsky.