Archive for August, 2006
Interesting article on fatalities in Iraq
Following up to the previous post, could what Hezbollah did in southern Lebanon be duplicated elsewhere? I.E., could another non-state actor manage to put together an effective enough military force to fight a western army to a standstill using conventional tactics?
Possibly. That’s not a particularly authoritative answer, but the situation in Lebanon was [...]
Just to be clear, what Hezbollah is doing in southern Lebanon is not guerrilla warfare. It’s light infantry warfare. They are trying to defend a set territory, using a military force consisting of light infantry (few tanks or artillery) behind heavily developed fortifications. This is substantially different than the kind of hit [...]
James Wyatt, Claws of the Tiger.
(King of Prussia Barnes & Noble)
There are certain underpinnings to scholarly inquiry that span the disciplines, more or less. They are the moral foundation of the scholarly approach. Remember that they serve not only as guidelines for your scholarly work, but assumptions about how other scholars work. Thus, reading a scholarly piece of work, one can presume [...]
The Jamestown Project- Small Tent April 16, 2009 dsilbey
- Votes Have Consequences, or Regionalization (continued) April 14, 2009 dsilbey
- What A Regional Party Looks Like April 7, 2009 dsilbey
- What Defeat Looks Like March 31, 2009 dsilbey
- The Wrong Question March 30, 2009 dsilbey
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