Archive for January, 2008
Matthew Galvin (organizer)
… Kathryn Hummel (organizer)
And so the blowback against Petraeus and counterinsurgency in general continues.
Navy exercise had the Red Team (the official “opponents”) using tactics that included waves of small boats and salvos of cruise missiles to wipe out an American convoy. … A combined assault against an American force consisting of large numbers of cruise missiles and small boats (some of them suicide boats of the same type that hit the USS Cole), combined with unexpected minefields, would–at very least–strain the defensive capability of the U.S. ships to their limit.
Until we have real posts.
The data for the above plot are drawn from the War Office, Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire During the Great War, 1914-1920 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1922), 674-7.1 It shows the total (i.e. civilian and military)2 casualties (i.e. killed and wounded) from all forms of bombardment (i.e. by airship, by aeroplane, and by warship) in Britain for each month of the war.
…All was not well in Europe in 1870, the year the Franco-Prussian war would lead to a united German Empire and a humiliated France; one could call it the first of three European civil wars, the other two being World Wars One and Two.
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
- silbey@h-war
- ANN: Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq Video Lecture Poste
- REPLY: Trinidad during World War II (3 Responses)
- CROSS-POSTED REVIEW: H-Net Review Publication: 'About Soldiers, More or Less'
- TOC: _Defence and Peace Economics_ , Volum e 20 Issue 3
- TOC: Journal of Conflict Resolution Table of Contents for 1 August 2009; Vol. 5
- Silbey@twitter
- silbey: You know it's the 21st century when your four-year-old uses the DVR remote control to pause the TV, gets candy, and then starts it again.
- silbey: @msilbey Or there's only a _Mother's_ Club: http://bit.ly/3vZVdg
- silbey: It's the 21st century when the local Jewish deli has wifi.
- silbey: @msilbey And gorilla!
- silbey: @thecline Sportsguy video: comedy gold. Extra bonus: the Doug Christie jersey he's wearing.
- silbey: @msilbey Hilarious. I think we should shout "Bingo" whenever the Redskins score from now on.
- silbey: @msilbey It's all about Vitamin D: http://bit.ly/2WlzpO
- silbey: Comedy gold: http://bit.ly/HmBm6
- silbey: @msilbey http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/healing/
- silbey: @kdhopwood What she said.
