http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/geostrategy?feed=rss&pg=5 emmineb's bookmarks tagged "geostrategy" on Netvouz http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200412/fallows Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results emmineb Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:41:33 GMT http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/11/23/iraq_adventure/index.html Right after the fall of Baghdad, hundreds of desperate disbanded troops asked me -- a middle-aged journalist -- to give them jobs. That's when I knew everything was going terribly wrong. When people ask me what went so wrong in Iraq, as they frequently do after learning that I reported from there early in the war, I offer a glib reply: "Let me tell you about the day I almost led the Iraqi army." Then I commence my very strange story, one that never fails to amuse, bewilder and ultimately dishearten anyone who has ever wondered why combat that was supposed to end on May 1, 2003 -- you know, "Mission Accomplis emmineb Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:38:10 GMT http://www.economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6850080 see also openneyinitiative.net on the great firewall of china emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:33:34 GMT http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19692 our revolutions in warfare since 1500 around which Max Boot chose to organize his book. It ends in a fog of acronyms for weapons still on the drawing boards, uncertainty about future military revolutions, and "The Danger of Too Much Change—and Too Little." In between Boot found many persuasive things to say about how changes in military technology and management affected the course of European and world history, illustrating each of his military revolutions with detailed accounts of three specific battles or campaigns. emmineb Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:26:23 GMT http://maps.bpl.org/ The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library is a public private partnership launched in 2004 to preserve and provide free public access to the Boston Public Library's historically significant collection of 200,000 maps and 5,000 atlases. Our goal is to maximize the educational potential of these antique and contemporary maps of the World, United States, and New England. This website will enable visitors to explore, in-depth, the Map Center's cartographic treasures and related educational programs. emmineb Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:32:38 GMT http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=632 In brief, the theory holds that warfare has evolved through four generations: 1) the use of massed manpower, 2) firepower, 3) maneuver, and now 4) an evolved form of insurgency that employs all available networks—political, economic, social, military—to convince an opponent's decision makers that their strategic goals are either unachievable or too costly. Further, the theory contends that this last form characterizes the terrorists' way of fighting today. Despite reinventing itself several times, the theory has several fundamental flaws that need to be exposed before it influences U.S. operational and strategic thinking emmineb Fri, 25 May 2007 12:46:33 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600193_pf.html Adapted from "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," by Rajiv Chandrasekaran After the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in April 2003, the opportunity to participate in the U.S.-led effort to reconstruct Iraq attracted all manner of Americans - restless professionals, Arabic-speaking academics, development specialists and war-zone adventurers. But before they could go to Baghdad, they had to [...] To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political [...] What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration. [...] Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade . emmineb Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:10:32 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091902804_pf.html Does Wall Street's meltdown presage the end of the American century? Many commentators have warned that the past week's financial mayhem signaled a major political setback for the United States as well as an economic one. "Why should the rest of the world ever again take seriously the American free-market model after this debacle?" a leading British journalist asked me last Thursday. This crisis, he argued, was to economics what the Iraq war was to U.S. foreign policy: a fatal blow to the credibility of American claims to global primacy. emmineb Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:28:38 GMT http://www.worldmapper.org/ This website contains a large collection of maps (and associated information) that we are in the process of generating. Each map relates to a particular subject. Click on the 'Thumbnail Index' which gives thumbnail previews of the maps, 'Map Categories' which is classified to see the choice, or a new option 'A-Z Map Index', and view a map and associated information. There is also a Site Map and Help page. Coverage The maps and data files cover 200 territories, mainly United Nation Member States plus a few others to include at least 99.95% of the world's population. For a map identifying them see the labelled territory map, and for a cartogram giving them all equal prominence see Appendix A (Areas Included). Further details about their names are given in Tec emmineb Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:34:27 GMT http://www.sott.net/articles/show/145536-A-young-blonde-Icelandic-woman-s-recent-experience-visiting-the-US The story of Eva Ósk Arnardóttir: During the last twenty-four hours I have probably experienced the greatest humiliation to which I have ever been subjected. During these last twenty-four hours I have been handcuffed and chained, denied the chance to sleep, been without food and drink and been confined to a place without anyone knowing my whereabouts, imprisoned. Now I am beginning to try to understand all this, rest and review the events which began as innocently as possible. emmineb Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:33:22 GMT