not a demand or even "suggestion" (since both of you would tell me to go to hell in that case), please take the continued discussion of SWJ Editorial Policy and Freedom of Speech to PMs.
Stan,...
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Just a personal request to both of you,
not a demand or even "suggestion" (since both of you would tell me to go to hell in that case), please take the continued discussion of SWJ Editorial Policy and Freedom of Speech to PMs.
Stan,...
Selective Violence By Kalyvas
One of the sources in Mark O'Neill's Second-party Counterinsurgency is Stathis Kalyvas, his theory and empirical research into selective and indiscriminate violence in irregular civil wars. I've...
Mark,
I want to get back to the topic of "selective violence" ("targeted killing" in my jargon, as in this thread, The Rules - Engaging HVTs & OBL) in a later post tonite - hopefully not focusing on the...
Berejena Mission
This post deals with this text from Dzimbanhete's SWJ article:
The Aluka Database has two relevant entries (both interviews in 1998; abstracts only; text behind paywall). The first interview...
Murder of Missionaries in Rhodesia
This post deals with this text from Dzimbanhete's article:
Missionary murders rang a bell; and lo and behold, a bit more than three years ago, I'd downloaded the report he cited. It's still...
Small Wars Journal Editorial Policy
is here. I've talked about the editorial policy as it relates to technical things (the bottom half of the page). Now, we should look at the substantive part (the top half); and the policy lede...
Mark, from a legal viewpoint,
the Dzimbanhete article isn't worth a review.
What I was trying to put across is that the article (exemplified by its coinage of the term "freedom violence") comes from the same well (manure...
Pulling Out All The Stops
This article (appearing in the SWJ Blog, as I write), Drawing Lessons from Zimbabwe's War of Liberation (by Jephias Andrew Dzimbanhete; Journal Article, December 10, 2013), does exactly that - all...
Have at it, Gents
I'll watch.
Mike
Not quite, Steve ...
Yes, JMA used the "G-Word" in a response to another RLI trooper - in fact, he used it twice (Gee; that's another G-word).
Rex Brynen then said:
Thereafter, the G-word disappeared from this...
A Rose By Any Other Name ...
JMA: You mentioned in another conversation that you were not acquainted, when in RLI service, with the term "rules of engagement". I don't question that, as such, since our own current FM 27-10, The...
Hey Ken,
Your kind words are always welcome. :)
Regards
Mike
Cilliers, Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia (complete pdf and sections) is here.
Review of MR Article - part 2
DKI as to the source. De Boer never cites "the rules" that he claims were "stretched". The disconnect in effect between applying "Rule of Law" versus "Laws of War" in irregular warfare was early on...
Review of MR Article - part 1
From the article's lede (emphasis added):
Based on the author's background,
I expected more than what I got.