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Mexican Standoff
Gunmen killed an American consulate worker and her husband in Ciudad Juárez. Their baby was found in the back seat. News comes that the cartels in Ciudad Juarez have finally started targeting U.S....
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“The Dropout Economy”
Great article in TIME by Reihan Salam. It’s short, but provides a pretty good indicator of the future to come, particularly for my generation: But what if the millions of so-called dropouts are onto...
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Nodes, Swarms, and the Risk Society
Christopher Albon takes on John Arquilla and addresses “The Limits of Netwar” in Current Intelligence: Arquilla is correct: a netwar-enabled military would be powerful. Swarms of small American units...
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Urban Jungle Warfare
An American solider in Sadr City, Iraq, 2008. Photo: Zoriah. Geoff Manaugh at the ever-fantastic and always impressive BLDGBLOG has a post up about Stephen Graham’s Cities Under Siege: The New...
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Jumping to Conclusions
Well, um, whoops. Not so much the teabagging type, but rather “a Connecticut man, a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan” named Faisal Shahzad. So yes, mea culpa. Though the white guy in...
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Encouraging Signs from Britain
A LibCon unity government poster from the National Coalition Government of 1940-45. Much as I despise the term ‘statism’, which like ‘socialism’ has been overused into a meaningless oblivion, you’d be...
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Visegrád
The four constituent nations of the "Visergrád Four." Apparently, this alliance exists, and as of May, now includes a military component. I like it. As a bloc in the EU and NATO of otherwise somewhat...
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Visegrad Redux
This is old news, but worth pointing out anyways. Back in April, the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) signed a tripartite defense agreement that, among other things, will...
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What’s Scots for “Nuclear Weapons?”
This is the year. 2014 will mark the historic referendum in which Scotland, yet again, votes whether or not to secede from the United Kingdom and go it alone. Having read Halting State, Charlie...
View ArticleSanctions and Financial Warfare in the 21st Century
In July of this year, China’s first regiment of S-400 surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems was delivered by Russia and accepted into PLA service. The following month, Russia confirmed that the last 10...
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