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Elected Swineherd: December 2008

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Let Me Get This Straight. Number of Israeli deaths due to rocket attacks from Gaza in the past eight years: 19. Number of Palestinian deaths due to retaliatory fire from Israel in the past 36 hours: 375. Hmm Of course what really matters is the percentage of each that are civilian, versus military, targets. What should Obama do about this mess when he takes office? Friday, December 19, 2008. Sign of the Times. HT to BBC's "Day In Pictures". Monday, December 15, 2008. In Februa...

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Elected Swineherd: Once more into the breach...

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Friday, February 13, 2009. Once more into the breach. Kudos to my distinguished colleague Diodotus for having largely shouldered the burden of running this humble discussion for the last several months. I further applaud the resolution to spend less time writing, and more time in action; as James, brother of Jesus wrote in 49 AD, "Faith without action is as dead as a body without a soul.". Posted by Cleitus the Black. Good to have you back. awaiting your next nugget of wisdom with bated breath.

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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...