Category: Strategy Unit

  • Guerilla War in Kabardino-Balkaria , Another Chechnya Erupts

    Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Monitor and RFE/RL has a good roundup of the Nalchik raid. All of them supporting StrategyPage’s position of another guerilla war coming to Russia Key quote from a Russian legislator: “It was more like a mutiny, an attempt to seize power in the city, and we should label it properly.” Ilyukhin added…

  • Iraq, getting better or worse?

    Update 01: See Dan Darling’s response here at Winds of Change. As you can tell from my postings, I haven’t made much commentary regarding the situation in Iraq. This is chiefly because others (see the links on the right) already do a great job at analyzing the situation and the situation in Iraq is at…

  • ICANN – Battle for the Internet – Update 2

    I’ve been following the ICANN issue pretty closely but there’s not too much to say until the scheduled UN meeting next month. (Check out previous posting on this blog “Will the Internet Remain Truly Global“and Battle for the Internet – Update 1.) But, I did come across a great article by Kenneth Cukier of the…

  • Green Revolution in Russia – Part II

    This is continuing with yesterday’s post “Great Game Revisited (again) and the Green Revolution“. On the Caucasus Any attention the U.S. press pays attention to the southern Russia is only limited to Afghanistan and more to Central Asia, with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan. But not enough attention is paid to the deteriorating situation in the…

  • Great Game Revisted (Again) and the Green Revolution – Part I

    Central Asia and the Caucasus share the pecular trait of being important geopolitical points, yet so little understood or cared about in the mainstream media. To do my part in remedying that, I’d like to point out to a great article on Central Asia (which more often gets some U.S. media coverage) and contrast that…

  • Barnett’s New Book “Blue Print”

    It looks like Thomas Barnett’ s publisher is in full PR swing in anticipatian of his new book, “Blueprint for Action : A Future Worth Creating“. I’ve mentioned Barnett in several of my papers and a posting here regarding “Open Source Warfare“. Check out the United Press Article, with the humble title Military theory superstar…

  • Open Source Warfare – Update I

    Thomas Barnett, noted writer and blogger who served in various areas in the DoD, shot off a rebuttle against John Robb’s Open Source Warfare article I mentioned last weekend in “Open Source War, Global Guerillas in Iraq“. For those unfamilar with Barnett, he is famous for his article, now book , entitled “Pentagon’s New Map”,…

  • Nalchik Raid- Russian Civil War in the Caucasus

    Introduction Last week, we see yet another violent manifestation of Russia as a deteriorating state in the Nalchik Raid; Nalchik is the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, about 870 miles south of Moscow. Unlike in Beslan or the Moscow Threatre, this time it was a large force of 300 fighters concentrating their attack police stations and other…

  • Iraq takes another big step

    Everyone has this topic covered, so I decided to post this one picture from Iraq The Model’s web site: “Father and son, post voting.” Links to check out: Winds Of Change – “The referendum: the beginning of the end” Oxblog – “WaPo VS. NYT: WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN IRAQ?” Belmont Club: The End of th…

  • Battle for the Internet Update 2

    One of my first few postings (here and here)were about a recent spat between the US control over ICANN and pressure from the EU and UN (most vocally Brazil, Iran, China and Saudi Arabia) to bring control of ICANN, with a further rounds of meetings planned for November at Tunis. Here are three updates –…