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Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), Network Centric Warfare (NCW) & Effect Based Operations (EBO)

emmineb — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:10:40 GMT

<> IWS - The Information Warfare Site is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate about a range of subjects from information security to information operations and e-commerce. It is the aim of the site to develop a special emphasis on offensive and defensive information operations. IWS first went online in December 1999. Since its launch it has undergone a complete redesign and many key texts have been added. In adherence to its founding principles IWS has developed several mailing lists to enable a more interactive debate.

The Atlantic Monthly | December 2004 : Will Iran Be Next? by James Fallows

emmineb — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:41:33 GMT

Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results

The day I almost led the Iraqi army - Salon

emmineb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:38:10 GMT

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

The Heritage of the Great War / The Great War in Color - 6

emmineb — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:34:03 GMT

WWI colour pics <>

The New York Review of Books: Conspicuous Proliferation: War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to

emmineb — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:26:23 GMT

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.

The Strategic Studies Institute: Fourth-Generation War and Other Myths

emmineb — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:46:33 GMT

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

The Vela Incident: Nuclear Test or Meteorite?

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:54:25 GMT

Documents Show Significant Disagreement with Presidential Panel Concerning Cause of Sep. 22, 1979 Vela "Double-Flash" Detection [among the usual suspects: Israel, S. Africa, Dr. No, some rock in space, a mini-black hole, the Gamma and Xray Burst brothers and a gang of exotic mysterious particles]

Why Sealion is not an option for Hitler to win the war

emmineb — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:26:16 GMT

One of the more common suggestions that crop up at all-too regular intervals goes along the lines of: "If Hitler hadn't switched from bombing airfields to bombing cities, then Operation Sealion would have worked." Unfortunately for these suggestions, the plan for Sealion was perhaps the most flawed plan in the history of modern warfare. Getting it to a workable state requires so many changes that an author's artistic license would be revoked.

A young blonde Icelandic woman's recent experience visiting the US - Signs of the Times News

emmineb — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:33:22 GMT

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.

Beyond The Beyond | playground for global guerrillas | By Bruce Sterling 100201

emmineb — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:55:32 GMT

No rules: Internet security a Hobbesian "state of nature" Ars Technica By Nate Anderson | Last updated February 1, 2010 Life in cyberspace can be nasty, brutish, and short. So says a new report (PDF) on international cybersecurity, which argues that the Internet is a Hobbesian “state of nature” where anything goes, where even government attacks maintain “plausible deniability,” and where 80 percent of industrial control software is hooked into an IP network.