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  1. If you mean non-violent resistance

    Could you be more specific? While in Poland there was a non-violent resistance organisation called Solidarnosc, the same cannot be said of Czechoslovakia, or East Germany. If you say there was NV...
  2. Postbipolar world vs the golden age of colonialism

    I think the title says it all. Think about how national liberation wars (say 1946-1975), Declaration of human rights /1948/, Weapons of mass destruction, the holocaust, and globalisítion etc. has...
  3. The limits of our (science centric) thinking

    As a historian I might start with the age of enlightement, how it broke the coherence in western thinking (elevating pure, atheist science to the level of a goddess), or with liberalism which ended...
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    Where will all those civilians come from?

    there are not too many options.

    a. reinstitue draft
    b. pay them a higher or equivavalent of their civilan income

    I don't see it happening anytime soon. Cuz' then the soldiers earnings has to...
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    The next conflict be it another 9/11 or another...

    The next conflict be it another 9/11 or another Georgia will decide our discussion.
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    Well yes that's the surface. In the meantime they...

    Well yes that's the surface. In the meantime they have bought off Austrian oil and natural gas companies incl the ex-state company OMV. They were trying to do the same with the hungarian one too. At...
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    No problem. Me no native speaker ;) You...

    No problem. Me no native speaker ;)



    You are right I should have written Iran instead of Am'jad. The fact it was shown all around the world which counts. And yes the reason why Darfur continues...
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    Now it is the time, when I say we are running in circles

    Of couse I am not suggesting that infantry should walk ALL the times, also not suggesting that you should sell rather than argue. As long as the weapons stay the same there is not major leap forward...
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    Null problemo. I also corrected it in Wiki. ...

    Null problemo. I also corrected it in Wiki.



    We were talking about true peers. And yes in the period you mentioned they were desperate cuz they knew they are seriously disadvantaged in high...
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    We agree on change yes, its extent no

    With all respect Wilf it is Ursa Maior, the stellar constellation meaning big bear. Being 190 cms with 130kgs it is my nick since ages.

    I was told by a senior hungarian (70+) general that between...
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    To qoute Ken White: I know that a war is a war is a war.

    Hybrid wars was a way to formulate 'times have changed' for those who were unfit to digest 4GW modell. Those who resist that a fundamental change is occuring in the international system does not...
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    Sorry, I don't understand the question. You...

    Sorry, I don't understand the question.

    You said SF are for deterrence. I said I thought they are part of the conventional forces.

    It's not a presumption. It's not an issue of competency per...
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    Obvious? I had to repeat them, since you seem to...

    Obvious? I had to repeat them, since you seem to forget about them. Besides I have always thought that SF are part of the armed forces, not part of MAD.



    Obvious? Even if we accept your...
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    Wilf While being conservative in military...

    Wilf
    While being conservative in military matters is not only needed but also required, you cannot stop the wheel of time by simply closing you eyes. NK needs deterrence. They cannot do it with...
  15. Poll: I know I seem a bit picky but...

    anti semitism does not equal criticism towards Israel. Anti semitism is rascism, and hatred while a critique (put politely, with argumentation etc.) is a critique.

    Edit this is OT here.
  16. Poll: Got it thanks.

    Got it thanks.
  17. Poll: Could you be more specific please. I am leaning...

    Could you be more specific please. I am leaning towards the opinion that the iranians are playing a ouble game, yet I cant verify it.
  18. Poll: Is the iranian leadership smart/lucky/nefarious/suicidal?

    Keeping Iran honest

    Iran's secret nuclear plant will spark a new round of IAEA inspections and lead to a period of even greater transparency
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  19. Poll: Wilf is on the point

    For the first time we agree. If the iranian regime is so completely out-of-control as Cohen and others suggest, why is it and (has been) acting so cautiously (and in some cases ingeniously) in the...
  20. Poll: IIRC a CSIS report (090808_gulfstrategyanalysis...

    IIRC a CSIS report (090808_gulfstrategyanalysis maybe?) or a MEMRI one calculated it at maximum one month rising from two weeks in the 1980s. It could last even longer given the significantly...
  21. Poll: Oil price barrel would be at least 200$...

    due to the heavily mined and attacked transport route. Since half China recieves its gas and oil from Iran China would be very upset so to say. If the USA was involved, attacks would multiply on US...
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    Yes sir I did read it and it will likely to...

    Yes sir I did read it and it will likely to become an often quoted source, alas westerners often commit the mistake of thinking only of their experience, their circumstances, what they see. In...
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    CvC vs MvC

    What was beyond CvC's reach was obvious to MvC. WMDs, people's war at its best and globalization. These all contribute to the decline of the nation state (because of the decline of nationalism as its...
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    With all due respect does Mr Kalinovsky really...

    With all due respect does Mr Kalinovsky really believes what he writes? All the soviets wanted was another puppet state. Kinda 'istans they already had.
    In my humble experience KGB was above...
  25. Google up Mujahedeen e Khalq...

    and you will know why a shiite (and probably pro Iranian) iraqi govt does everything to get rid of them.

    OTOH as stalwart opponents of the religious iranian regime they were mostly pro US....
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