It seems to be common understanding that insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan are benefiting to great extent from the ubiquitous communication networks (e.g. using cell phones as triggers etc...)....
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Telephone and communication nets in insurgent infested areas
It seems to be common understanding that insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan are benefiting to great extent from the ubiquitous communication networks (e.g. using cell phones as triggers etc...)....
Regarding the notion of Auftragstaktik and Battle...
Regarding the notion of Auftragstaktik and Battle drills:
IMHO the essence of Auftrakstaktik is constituted of the idea that an order is a description of what to achieve but not how to achieve it -...
Interesting idea.. buying all the poppy? How...
Interesting idea.. buying all the poppy? How would you consider convincing an Afghan that you would stay long enough to keep buying the opium longer than drug barons?
"Fortunate" for us that the...
Didn't the news report that MI5 claimed that...
Didn't the news report that MI5 claimed that Scotland Yard and ISI were mobbed-up by jihadists? I believe that this was also one of Al Quiadas goals as well - to ask sympathizers to emigrate to...
references
Sure. Although it turned out that it is quite hard to get appropriate articles in English.
1) I do know wikipedia is not a reliable source - but best to my knowledge the information regarding...
On German contributions (or the lack thereof)
It is interesting that, of all nations in Nato not largely involved in the south, the main criticism seems to hit Germany. This is peculiar indeed considering its past (and comparably intensive...
I am assuming you suggest the Brits and Americans...
I am assuming you suggest the Brits and Americans pay for their stuff as well (which may be the vast majority of left over ordonance) ?