A pointer to a website not seen before. It is the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) and USA-based. You can select the country of interest. I have looked at just two: Cameroon and...
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A pointer to a website not seen before. It is the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) and USA-based. You can select the country of interest. I have looked at just two: Cameroon and...
Actually this is not a pointer to a blog, rather a new DC think tank within a university. Their 'About' says:
Link:https://www.american.edu/sis/centers/security-technology/
The founder, Audrey...
An update this international, free on-line journal is moving to a new web address:https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/perspectives-on-terrorism
It can be a useful resource and you can subscribe to...
Agile Warrior is a new official UK Army quarterly publication, available online via a UK NGO (so inquiry made with the publisher). OK, not really a blog, but this is the best place for this!:o
The...
Via Twitter:
A variety of academic articles from various journals, for example David Betz in 2010 wrote 'Insurgency and Counterinsurgency'.
...
Not exactly a blog, rather a collection of podcast interviews on terrorism and counter-terrorism, offered by the University of East London, the home since 2015 of the Terrorism and Extremism Research...
I'd forgotten about Tim Lynch's blog until today. He is still commenting on matters Afghan, in his direct, pithy style.
Link:http://freerangeinternational.com/blog/
Here is a classic story, with...
Just discovered this blog by a serving British Warrant Officer, whose comments are not on 'small wars' and focus on the problems the British Army face.
Link:https://thewarrantofficer.org/
Those...
See Post 201 for the full version:
Thanks to a watcher there is update from Babatim, who is seeking funding to enable him to return to Helmand with the...
An Anglo-Scottish-American project, based @ Glasgow University, Moral Victories and their aim:Link:http://moralvictories.gla.ac.uk/
CREST is a UK academic "think tank", with substantial funding from the security & intelligence agencies and only id'd yesterday. CREST explains itself:
Link:https://crestresearch.ac.uk/
I noticed...
Hat tip to WoTR for their article, which has many links and in particular commends three:Link:http://warontherocks.com/2016/06/a-military-guide-to-civilian-knowledge-about-fragile-states/
Is a co-production in the UK, between the Changing Character of War Programme @ Oxford University and the UK MOD's Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre.They explain - in part:...
I have today, 9th March 2016, merged in fifty-three threads which refer to blogs. I have not merged in many that debate the contents of a particular blog entry. This was prompted by a new thread by...
A newly discovered blog by David Wells, who explains what it is about:
Link:https://counterterrorismmatters.wordpress.com/
A new UK-based group at the Uk Joint Command & Staff College, with a website and a Twitter account:
Link:http://www.militaryinnovation.org/
Babatim is Tim Lynch, a former USMC officer who was in Afghanistan as a civilian "outside the wire" and had an excellent blog running till his departure in May 2012, alongside having "issues" to...
From an email to subscribers:
Condor,
Kings of War has technical issues, it is not deceased.:)
Condor,
Kings of War appears to be sleeping currently, I shall ask what has happened with a friend @ Kings.
Defence in Depth appears to be the work of those from Kings based at the Defence...
Link:http://defenceindepth.co/about/
Twitter: @DefenceResearch
A number of threads and SWJ Blog notices have been merged into this thread.
Due to age it is possible some blogs shown are no longer working.
Found via an email from the BSAP History Circle, a website for those interested in The Great War (WW1)n in Africa:http://gweaa.com/
A blog from Kings College War Studies, separate from Kings of War, which was only id'd today by a SWJ contributor and their explanation 'What is Strife':
Link:http://strifeblog.org/
Link:http://chinaincentralasia.com/
After studying in China for several years, learning the language, Raffaello Pantucci has taken to travelling through this vast region and some of his earlier...