Forum: Middle East
02-07-2013
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Replies: 186
Views: 15,796
David,
I think a significant difference...
David,
I think a significant difference exists in the alignment of kith and kin in the today's world as compared to the world of 1965-1980 that you mentioned. The 20th centurty kith and kin were...
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Forum: The Whole News
01-04-2013
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,692
Good and bad in the quoted material above. ...
Good and bad in the quoted material above.
The good is that Bill points out the problems with trying to "flex" a clandestine human intelligence collection service. Similar issues have been...
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Forum: RFIs & Members' Projects
12-18-2012
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,771
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Forum: RFIs & Members' Projects
12-17-2012
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,771
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Forum: RFIs & Members' Projects
12-17-2012
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,771
Do Nations really surrender?
Fuchs' example of Czechoslovakia made me think of the Polish forces' surrender in 1939. I think Poland as a nation never officially surrendered. In 1940, France, as I remember the case, did not...
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Forum: Catch-All, GWOT
12-07-2012
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Replies: 115
Views: 4,519
Hoisted by my own petard. :o
Would it help if...
Hoisted by my own petard. :o
Would it help if I specified that the member of the family (of resemblences) that those involved in certain language games map to when they use the word "war" to which...
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Forum: Catch-All, GWOT
12-06-2012
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Replies: 115
Views: 4,519
Certainly, because one cannot wage war...
Certainly, because one cannot wage war within/against one's own country. How odd does this sound? "Today the President of the United States requested that the Senate ratify his declaration of war...
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Forum: Catch-All, GWOT
12-05-2012
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Replies: 115
Views: 4,519
The dichotomy identified is based on analogies...
The dichotomy identified is based on analogies that have far too many relevant dissimilarities to make them a useful tool for drawing conclusions. What a government does/may do legitimately within...
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Forum: Catch-All, GWOT
11-30-2012
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Replies: 115
Views: 4,519
I'm not so sure that terrorism is always a...
I'm not so sure that terrorism is always a tactic. Saying so is equivalent to saying that terror activities are being used as a means to some end. I suspect that some terrorist acts are conducted...
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Forum: Catch-All, GWOT
11-30-2012
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Replies: 115
Views: 4,519
Level 1: King Yertle is the US (post Truman...
Level 1: King Yertle is the US (post Truman Doctrine), the Pond is the Earth and the other turtles are the various countries in the world.
Level 2: Yertle is the tyrannical leader of any...
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Forum: Catch-All, GWOT
11-29-2012
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Replies: 115
Views: 4,519
Wrong Geisel Work
Bob's World started this thread with a reference to a Panetta speech, a medical metaphor, and the The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. He proceeded to ask "Where is Cat Z and what is 'voom'?"
I think...
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Forum: OEF - Afghanistan
11-09-2012
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Replies: 61
Views: 3,083
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Forum: Middle East
08-04-2012
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Replies: 663
Views: 33,980
Mike
The 2 Zaman articles from your last post...
Mike
The 2 Zaman articles from your last post (http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=12821) --Syria crisis unlikely to mar Turkish-Russian partnership, Syria reaches oil deal with...
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Forum: Middle East
08-04-2012
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Replies: 663
Views: 33,980
A tangled web
Buried in the Wikipedia link that Mike shared is what I believe is a significant consideration regarding the lack of direct intervention. I suspect that the Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia,...
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Forum: Historians
07-25-2012
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Replies: 68
Views: 4,339
The more things change . . .
How are the current hi-tech weapon buys for the services really all that different from the surge in coast defense fort building following the War of 1812 and then the Endicott Board and the Taft...
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Forum: Middle East
07-24-2012
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Replies: 663
Views: 33,980
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Forum: Historians
07-21-2012
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Replies: 68
Views: 4,339
10 USC 311 and Militias
Yes, Varity, there is a militia.
At least one state that I know of, New Mexico, also refers to its militia in its state constitution:
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Forum: Middle East
07-21-2012
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Replies: 663
Views: 33,980
Thanks for the series of ad hominem attacks. ...
Thanks for the series of ad hominem attacks. Your "you just don't understand" is a standard riposte that was not unexpected.
What China plans to do in 100 years is really not all that germane to...
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Forum: Middle East
07-21-2012
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Replies: 663
Views: 33,980
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Forum: Strategic Compression
07-19-2012
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Replies: 338
Views: 16,787
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Forum: Strategic Compression
07-19-2012
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Replies: 338
Views: 16,787
Concur with this. In fact I wrote pretty much...
Concur with this. In fact I wrote pretty much the same thing way back at post 60 (http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showpost.php?p=136764&postcount=60)of this thread when I characterized the...
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Forum: Strategic Compression
07-18-2012
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Replies: 338
Views: 16,787
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Forum: Strategic Compression
07-18-2012
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Replies: 338
Views: 16,787
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Forum: Strategic Compression
07-17-2012
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Replies: 338
Views: 16,787
I gave you an alternative in my response. If it...
I gave you an alternative in my response. If it would work for an opponent uit would work for us. Use a bunch of cheap shipping (not sure whether the mothball fleets still exist, if they do they'd...
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Forum: Strategic Compression
07-17-2012
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Replies: 338
Views: 16,787
Nice idea, provided you could get all the 787...
Nice idea, provided you could get all the 787 sub-assemblies that are made all around the world--France, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Sweden to Washington state to build more once the initial...
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