http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/military?feed=rss&pg=1 emmineb's bookmarks tagged "military" on Netvouz http://www.samurai.com/5rings/ emmineb Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:04:10 GMT http://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychology-Military-Incompetence-Norman-Dixon/dp/0712658890 "Everyone who manages anyone should be required to read this book. By focussing on the military Dixon has written a book crammed with examples that show the drastic consequences of incompetence. In management situations it's seldom a matter of life and death (despite the way some bosses act) but the consequences are still there: demotivated, under-utilised, confused and stressed staff. So if you're the boss and this sounds familiar you should read this book and learn it's lessons." emmineb Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:14:25 GMT http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=142383 In the ruined city of Fallujah, its pale tan buildings pulverized by Marine artillery in the two great assaults of this long war (the aborted attack of March 2004 and then the bloody, triumphant al-Fajr (The Dawn) campaign of the following November), behind the lines of giant sandbags and concrete T-walls and barbed wire that surrounded the tiny beleaguered American outpost there, I sat in my body armor and Kevlar helmet and thought of George F. Kennan. Not the grand old man of American diplomacy, the ninety-eight-year-old Father of Containment who, listening to the war drums beat from a Washington nursing home in the fall of 2002, had uttered the prophetic words above. I was thinking of an earlier Kennan, the brilliant and ambitious young diplomat who duri emmineb Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:31:29 GMT http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=87452 emmineb Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:05:09 GMT http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/kilcullen_28_articles.pdf emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:41:42 GMT http://www.ointres.se/udes.htm UDES XX20 emmineb Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:40:25 GMT http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060706N.shtml iraq niger yellowcake uranium sismi plame ledeen p2 disinforamtion cutout dgse kwiatkowski rocco martino emmineb Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:47:21 GMT http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-forc.htm#opart emmineb Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:51:12 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization/dp/0471780790/sr=11-1/qid=1162992274/ref=sr_11_1/102-4085570-1457716 As Brave New War explains, system disruption lies at the heart of the agenda. Instead of symbolic, or deadly attacks, we should be on the lookout for economically devastating attacks. Our enemy will be looking for gaps in the system where a small, cheap action--say, on an oil pipeline--will generate a tremendous return. It may not even make the evening news, except as a report on spiraling gas prices. Because of the open source nature of the enemy, they don't all need to be smart. In fact, none of them need to be smart. They'll just keep trying random acts until one really works, and then they'll all copy it. That doesn't take genius, just flexibility. Is this all just theoretical? No, it's exactly what we're seeing in Iraq, as their IEDs improve, their tar emmineb Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:27:01 GMT http://jeffdeboer.com/Galleries/CatsandMice/tabid/77/moduleid/433/viewkey/photo/photoid/120/Default.aspx Q. Where did you get the idea to build armour for cats and mice?At the time that I made my first armour mouse and cat, by 1985 I had completed seven full suits of armour for people.I had been studying the history of armour for many years and had an extensive collection of books on the subject. At ...morethe same time, I was just in my second year at the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD), majoring in the jewellery design program. In truth, I made a suit of armour for a cat first. I did it as a project for a sculpture class. It turns out that my tendency for exploring opposites came into play at this point. emmineb Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:02:11 GMT