This complicated person is largely responsible for both the fundamentals of modern of guerrilla warfare as we see it practiced everywhere today and the shape of the Middle East. And in a sense, the Sykes-Picot agreement, which split up the Ottoman Empire, originally between the French, the British and the Russians, is the...
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Oh, goody. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes’ systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber — available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet — to regularly capture...
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For several years a number of loosely-knit guerrilla organizations have been fighting the major oil producers and the central government of Nigeria. Their grievances are: poverty, environmental degradation and corruption. I don’t approve of the use of violence to sort these things out. This post is about the increasing ability of open-source groups to...
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