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The Syrian Uprising: No foreign intervention when you've got no oil?
Things are about to get really ugly in Syria. Uprisings in the Middle East sure were ugly last year but if we're talking Syria, I prefer to use the term civil war. Especially after I watched...
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Kony 2012: African Civil War meets the Internet wristband brigade.
African civil wars have always scored high on the atrocity scale. It turns out the Internet got wise to this last week by way of a slick YouTube video called Kony 2012 detailing the sick fuck...
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Man wakes up from decade long coma and figures he's living in an Orwellian...
Taking a look around at how scary the world is getting makes me wonder what it'd be like to wake up after a decade-long coma and take a fresh look at the surveillance society that's been coming down...
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Arctic Melt: The New Cold War
This article was first published in King's Tribune. There isn't going to be a shooting war for Arctic resources just yet. Major powers like the the US, China...
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Syria: Fantasy war in the desert!
Anyone watching the Syrian Civil War right now through the eyes of Western media is like some guy who figures he knows what WWII was all about because he just watched Inglourious Basterds....
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China v Japan. Are the Senkaku Islands worth a war?
China versus Japan sure would be a fun war. Fun, of course, being a relative term. For those who like watching the world burn, sure, it'd be an interesting fireworks display. At least until cheap...
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Syria: Will Assad go full chemical?
The Syrian Civil War just made headlines. Why? Because, according to Western media, Bashar al-Assad's regime is so desperate that it's threatening to bust out the chemical weaponry and watch...
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Mali: The French go to the desert.
It's always time to break out the popcorn when the French go to war. The French intervention in Mali, Operation Serval, isn't exactly a shocker since the French can be pretty touchy when it comes...
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North Korea v The World
The real question Western war planners have been asking since the Korean Armistice in 1953 and especially in the years since the demise of the Cold War and rise of China has been: How much...
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Why Syria Matters: Sunni oil versus Shia oil and the battle for regional...
The Syrian Regional War rages on and nobody knows how to put out the fire. Up to now, the Obama administration tech nerds have proved pretty savvy when it comes to dealing with foreign enemies....
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The Syrian Regional War: NATO on deck!
Looks like NATO and Obama's tech geeks are going ahead with a 'limited' attack on Syria. The US has four destroyers in the Mediterranean right now each packing 90 Tomahawks apiece plus the British...
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Russia v NATO: Ukraine, Crimea and the new Cold War.
Admit it, the second you saw that vid of Russian attack choppers pouring into Crimea, somewhere in the back of your brain you started thinking of nuclear winter, fallout, the best routes out of...
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The idea of ISIS: The history and future of the Islamic State.
The first thing we're going to have to realize in any discussion on ISIS is that, despite the media hysteria, they are not a cyborg army of super muslims spewing forth from Sodom about to gobble up...
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The West v ISIS: Air strikes just mean endless war minus victory.
So there's a US led war party in the desert and every Euro country with an F-16 to spare is piling in to the fray just so they don't miss their chance to get a swing in at the bad guys. Even Belgium...
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The Geopolitics of 2016: Oil, War, Chaos and Pathological Altruism.
Word on the ground at the Pentagon is that the Obama Administration's foreign policy is viewed as so inept, directionless and without clear objective that the US Joint Chiefs of Staff have had to...
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The Syrian Civil War: Air Power Can Win! If you want it. (Part I)
A few years back, I wrote a piece about the Syrian Civil War titled "The West v ISIS: Air strikes just means endless war minus victory". That now seems, in hindsight, not only trite but...
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The Syrian Civil War is Over: Now welcome to the 2020s. The decade of decline...
"They created a desert and called it victory."That's easily my favorite quote from antiquity. It's by the Roman writer Tacitus quoting a defeated general at the hands of the legions 2000 years ago. And...
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The Virus: It is not the Sickness you should be afraid of. It is the Cure.
I ended my last post on this blog on December 22, 2019 with the following paragraph. "What we're confronted with now as a species is an overpopulated world, approaching 8 billion with mass flora...
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Afghanistan: The necessary defeat?
Your tax dollars at work. Who won this war? The longest war the US has ever fought on paper (20 years). It even beats out Vietnam for long drawn out attrition against an enemy, despite modern...
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Russia v Ukraine: Day 1
Obviously, I am working on an article on the origin, lead up and implications of this war. But for now, I'll just give some updates on what is likely happening. Due to the Fog of War, mass...
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Russia v Ukraine: Day 6
Western media guide to tanks. If you've been watching this conflict through the eyes of Western media, you would be forgiven for thinking that the plucky Ukrainian Army was holding its own or even...
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Russia v Ukraine: Who is winning?
This war is entering a new phase. Russia really wants to avoid the bloody, high casualty infrastructure destruction type of warfare that would make Ukraine a post war rubble pile failed state...
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NATO v RUSSIA via Ukraine: The Impossible War
Who ever said war was a truthful environment? Of course, nobody. That old aphorism of "truth being the first casualty of war" seems quaint in the modern-day environment post WWII. If only...
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NATO v RUSSIA via Ukraine: Does this war end or do we all die?
I get it. This war is getting awful. Christmas is over. The war is a mess but I'm John Lennon level naïve. And I am about to make a prediction. And making any prediction in this Russia v Ukraine...
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NATO v Russia: WWIII Part II. Tactical Battlefield 15 kiloton nukes.
In my last post over New Years', I honestly tried to make a case that this war must end, a peace deal must be had or the danger of contagion and escalation is too great to allow this war to...
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