Forum: Europe
1 Week Ago
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2011 there was more than a quarter million...
2011 there was more than a quarter million foreign students in Germany for the first time.
https://www.daad.de/portrait/presse/pressemitteilungen/2012/21295.de.html
More in 2012, no doubt.
I know...
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Forum: Europe
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 481
Views: 41,834
A couple ten thousand of those migrants are...
A couple ten thousand of those migrants are actually university students. Universities are almost free in Germany (about 500 €/year all inclusive) and there hasn't only been a rise of German...
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Forum: Doctrine & TTPs
2 Weeks Ago
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Replies: 240
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Forum: Catch-All, Military Art & Science
2 Weeks Ago
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Replies: 46
Views: 9,331
Question: If the Reserves / National Guard can...
Question: If the Reserves / National Guard can train up to almost active forces level within 60 days, why bother with active forces in the army at all?
The pointless expeditionary stuff is being...
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Forum: Trigger Puller
2 Weeks Ago
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Forum: Global Issues & Threats
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Spoken like a hydroengineer.
Too bad the...
Spoken like a hydroengineer.
Too bad the Austrians would gain nothing by building lots of dams. Their tourism sector would suffer terribly. They're already losing their glaciers and will fight to...
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Forum: Central Asia
3 Weeks Ago
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Replies: 97
Views: 35,571
China’s Black Hole
Let's face it: We have...
China’s Black Hole
Let's face it: We have little idea what's actually going on in Xinjiang and Tibet. (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/26/china_s_black_hole_tibet_xinjiang)
BY ISAAC...
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Forum: Africa
3 Weeks Ago
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Replies: 332
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Forum: Doctrine & TTPs
4 Weeks Ago
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Replies: 49
Views: 18,457
Irresponsible and dangerous?
List the...
Irresponsible and dangerous?
List the countries which can defend themselves successfully without allies, please.
If you cannot create a long list here with more than a hundred countries around,...
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Forum: The Whole News
4 Weeks Ago
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The speculators realise their gains of the last...
The speculators realise their gains of the last years, exploiting that enough people were stupid enough to believe in post-apocalyptic BS and considered gold as a currency for after collapse instead...
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Forum: Law Enforcement
4 Weeks Ago
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Replies: 160
Views: 6,076
News is bad for you...
News is bad for you (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli)
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Forum: Middle East
04-13-2013
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Replies: 27
Views: 8,322
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Forum: Doctrine & TTPs
04-06-2013
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,386
Mines in small groups instead of used en masse...
Mines in small groups instead of used en masse are really only good for harassment and a little attrition.
You cannot defend anything with such means, but your can demoralise and it takes resolute...
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Forum: Doctrine & TTPs
04-05-2013
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,386
This IED hyping is BS.
The Syrian army did not...
This IED hyping is BS.
The Syrian army did not win quickly (or so far at all) because motivation (morale) is extremely important.
The army obviously lacked men who actually wanted to fight the...
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Forum: Politics In the Rear
03-20-2013
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Replies: 38
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
03-01-2013
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Replies: 48
Views: 20,897
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Forum: Doctrine & TTPs
02-25-2013
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Replies: 152
Views: 23,118
"Insurgency" is the sum of "Civil War" and...
"Insurgency" is the sum of "Civil War" and "Violent Resistance to Occupation" (the latter including wars of independence).
The both are vastly different, and Westerners have come to think of the...
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Forum: Catch-All, OIF
02-20-2013
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Forum: Catch-All, GWOT
02-16-2013
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,643
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Forum: Catch-All, GWOT
02-16-2013
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,643
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Forum: Catch-All, GWOT
02-15-2013
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,643
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Forum: Catch-All, GWOT
02-15-2013
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,643
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Forum: Doctrine & TTPs
02-14-2013
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Replies: 240
Views: 38,581
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Forum: Europe
02-14-2013
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Replies: 481
Views: 41,834
GDP figures have a certain margin of error,...
GDP figures have a certain margin of error, especially early ones.
-0.6% is nothing really noteworthy as an early GDP change figure, since the technological rate of progress has moved towards 1.5 %...
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Forum: Africa
02-13-2013
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Replies: 332
Views: 33,750
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