Recent Posts Tagged With 'irregular warfare'

• Holding Pattern - The Iraq Stack

  Posted on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 at 17:22 in iraq, insurgency, coin, information operation, irregular warfare, post conflict operations

  Caught a BBC interview with General Petraeus on the locker room TV a few weeks ago after swimming a few lazy laps.To paraphrase what I heard the go-to man for COINy IO say (and also what he somberly didn't say) when I was drying off, the general rath...

• Brewskies For Georgia Downed

  Posted on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 at 16:43 in georgia, russia, information operation, irregular warfare

  Anti-Georgian Cyber war - a twinge of the oxymoronic for sure given a Georgian internet penetration per capita rivaling that continent of promesse de la Chine (Ahfrika, of course) for last place in the Paralympic bathtubs per capita square off. What...

• Friend to Foe: Switch-Hit Pak

  Posted on Wednesday March 19th, 2008 at 03:19 in pakistan, afghanistan, coin, domestic counter-insurgency, irregular warfare, shrinkology

  Last week, as Lt Gen Mushtaq Baig, chief of army medical services, was blown to bits by a teenaged suicide bomber in the heart of the Rawalpindi cantonment, Pakistan’s worst fears were confirmed once again: the militants were determined to attack t...

• Hunter-Killers: Getting Native Against All Fears

  Posted on Tuesday March 11th, 2008 at 11:43 in Turkey, coin, asymmetrics, irregular warfare

  A rather unique and recent Washington Post special report on PKK guerrillas in Iraq's Zap valley reminded me of an article stumbled upon last month in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Excerpts from each below.San Diego Union-TribuneTrying to become preda...

• War Nerd's USS Sitting Duck

  Posted on Thursday January 31st, 2008 at 01:39 in iran, strategic psychological operations, asymmetrics, irregular warfare

  Today I'm going to talk about war games. Which reminds me: my computer's messed up so I'm writing this column from what has got to be the darkest, smelliest internet cafe in Fresno, not like there are a lot to choose from. I seem to be the only round...

• Open-Source Warfare

  Posted on Tuesday November 6th, 2007 at 07:05 in information operation, asymmetrics, irregular warfare

  From a new article by Robert N. Charette in IEEE Spectrum, Open-Source Warfare:To understand open-source warfare, it's instructive to revisit Eric S. Raymond's 1997 manifesto, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, in which he describes how a large community...