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MoStFab: The attacks on Afghan Shiites
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Tuesday, December 6, 2011. The attacks on Afghan Shiites. From the New York Times. On the coordinated - Kabul, Kandahar and Mazar-i-Sharif - attacks on Shiites, coming during Ashura and very clearly sending a message connected to the Bonn II conference:. Having said that, they went there on organised tours, so this is not to doubt the NYT's speculation about the help provided to L-e-J's militants. Posted by Péter Marton. The Stupidest Ma...
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MoStFab: The NYT on the PRTs
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Tuesday, February 8, 2011. The NYT on the PRTs. The NYT has an elegant way of blending fiction with non-fiction. Although this is not a compliment, by way of some wishful thinking perhaps, they do manage to seamlessly weave together the two in the following passages of their account. Of what Hamed Karzai did not say at the Munich security conference. Karzai Seeks End to NATO Reconstruction Teams". You can find here. Posted by Péter Marton.
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MoStFab: The politics of coalition burden-sharing: The Steve Irwin way of doing COIN
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Thursday, October 27, 2011. The politics of coalition burden-sharing: The Steve Irwin way of doing COIN. There is a new report. Out from the Australian Land Warfare Studies Centre. The Americans at JMRC (Joint Mission Readiness Centre – Hohenfels, Germany) commented on how good our (Australian and New Zealand) soldiers were at switching from a hearts and minds focus to killing the enemy, and then switching back just as quickly to c...
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MoStFab: Footage from Pakistan
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Wednesday, March 2, 2011. British tabloids picked up the story. Not too surprisingly, nevertheless it relates to the focus of this blog. Filmed in Pakistan, the shortest. I hope this was not filmed before some kind of special martyrdom operation. Posted by Péter Marton. Wednesday, March 02, 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Valuable, useful, interesting, or informative blogs). Alex Strick van Linschoten. Bill and Bob's Excellent.
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MoStFab: This blogpost is an information operation (sort of)
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Monday, February 28, 2011. This blogpost is an information operation (sort of). Yes, all in all, I believe that Joe Harlan is right. Information operations certainly cannot work. Michael Hastings is looking for attention. As LtCol. Holmes suggests in Michael "McChrystal-clearer" Hastings' article. Michael Hastings is looking for attention. Rolling Stone magazine. Information operations are not mechanical, undetected manipulations. As to ...
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MoStFab: The politics of coalition burden-sharing: "Stand aside" forces
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Sunday, October 23, 2011. The politics of coalition burden-sharing: "Stand aside" forces. A few days ago. The above slide is from one of Anthony Cordesman's presentations. Will be either "servants" or "onlookers," respectively, in our categorisation. And largely it is of course these two categories of countries from which you will find Cordesman's "allied caveat and stand aside forces" deployed. Regardless of by what terms we refer to th...
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MoStFab: A new book: Multinational statebuilding in Afghanistan
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Saturday, August 27, 2011. A new book: Multinational statebuilding in Afghanistan. A lot of work went into this one - and I'm proud to announce that this book (see below) has finally been published, with editing and contributions by Yours Truly - and with contributions from many other authors with whom it was an honour to work together and a pleasure to write it. I'm sharing news of it in the hope that you may find it interesting. This b...
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Verbal Incontinence: July 2012
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Stream of conscious rambling from a sleep deprived nurse with English degree leanings. Either that or the psychological trait known as flight of ideas.it's a toss up. The Senior Chief retired. This is a video commemorating his 22 years of service in the Navy. It never fails to make me tear up. I am so proud of him and so honored to be considered his "second wife." Congratulations, fair winds and following seas, Senior, and thank you for so many years of your service. Love you! Links to this post. I infor...
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Verbal Incontinence: March 2012
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Stream of conscious rambling from a sleep deprived nurse with English degree leanings. Either that or the psychological trait known as flight of ideas.it's a toss up. You ever have one of those moments when you are joking around, more than likely trying to cajole someone into a better humor, and, without meaning to and really without knowing, you step over the line? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My patients may beg to differ. Some of them aren't impressed. View my complete profile.
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Letters to Leathernecks: July 2009
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Kanani Update and 'Afghan Quest'. On 27 July 2009. I've been shopping for Kanani's. Husband here lately. (. Blogs like this give me the eyes and ears I don't have being a civilian trying to assist my adopted troops the best way I can. I want to know the environment, the mindset and the experiences, social, political and military in order to be useful. Blogs like. Written by an deployed Army NCO are a touchstone for that. So, to re-center myself for now; I am getting to. Here's a piece on a. Forward Surgi...
