Archive for July, 2009
links for 2009-07-10
Pocket Sized Camp Stove (The Improved "Penny Stove") (tags: camping diy howto instructable stove survival gear ultralight) Home-made Hydraulic Ram Pump (tags: diy howto energy) Hack N Mod – Amazingly Cool Hacks, Mods, and DIY Projects (tags: diy hacks howto projects) Solar Cell Tutorial (tags: electronics diy hacks solar) We Love Sheds – readersheds.co.uk (tags: [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2009 under Asides.
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links for 2009-07-09
Weblogs | Revue Militaire Suisse (tags: défense) Le blog de Hervé de Weck | Revue Militaire Suisse (tags: défense military) Guerres & Systèmes – le blog d'Alain de Nève (tags: géopolitique) Etats-Unis : actualité de politique étrangère américaine – le blog de Nicolas Martin Lalande (tags: blog géopolitique COIN irak afghanistan) Ifriqiya. Histoire, défense, et [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2009 under Asides.
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links for 2009-07-08
"La victoire de l'OTAN en Afghanistan est impossible" – G Chaliand – Le Monde.fr (tags: afghanistan guerre) IMINT & Analysis: Defeating Censorship in Google Earth (tags: imint) IMINT & Analysis Open source military analysis, strategic thinking, and Google Earth imagery interpretation. (tags: military intelligence gis google blog) Celeste Ward — The Pentagon's Obsession With Counterinsurgency [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2009 under Asides.
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Les chinois sont des gens difficiles à comprendre
A l’appui de cette assertion simpliste, l’analyse sur MilitaryBlog de l’affaire du porte-avions-chinois-sur-un-lac…
Posted: July 9th, 2009 under General.
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Inside CNAS, and other thoughts from an American conservative (magazine)
In The American Conservative (August 01, 2009 issue) D.C.-based freelance reporter Kelley Beaucar Vlahos gives a short, but well delivered, insight of the D.C. side of the US A’Stan COIN doctrine (Nagl, Kilcullen, Petraeus, CNAS et allii). Enjoy reading The American Conservative – One-Sided COINI tend to apreciate AmConMag. In papers previously posted on TAC’s [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2009 under General.
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David Kilcullen as an author
Youtube video of Devid Kilcullen discussing his latest book at authors@google, with interesting ideas such as “accidental guerilla”. Thanks Andrew Exum. Also worth reading, from the abovementioned pair, is Death From Above, Outrage Down Below, published in the NYT. To read in conjunction with their Triage: The Next Twelve Months in Afghanistan and Pakistan (pdf).
Posted: July 8th, 2009 under General.
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Toutes les Brigades ne sont pas égales…
Jugez-en : Arrêté du 4 mars 2008 portant modification de l’arrêté du 18 janvier 2001 relatif aux logements de représentation concédés à des autorités(…)Liste des autorités bénéficiant d’un logement de représentation(…)Général commandant la brigade du génie, gouverneur militaire de Strasbourg.Général commandant la 4e brigade aéromobile, gouverneur militaire de Nancy.Général commandant la 1re brigade mécanisée.Général commandant [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2009 under General.
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I am monarch of all I survey
I am monarch of all I survey,My right there is none to dispute;From the centre all round to the sea,I am lord of the fowl and the brute.William Cowper, ‘Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk‘ (1782), lines 1-4
Posted: July 7th, 2009 under General.
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links for 2009-07-05
Les mafias, le blog de Fabrice Rizzoli (tags: intelligence) L'espion qui venait d'Auvergne (tags: renseignement france)
Posted: July 6th, 2009 under Asides.
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links for 2009-07-04
Le blog OPEXNEWS (tags: blog militaire)
Posted: July 5th, 2009 under Asides.
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links for 2009-07-03
CENTCOM's Digital Video & Imagery Distribution System (tags: military video news iraq afghanistan) Milblogging Conference 2009 (tags: military blog) The Thunder Run (tags: army blog military afghanistan) Aardvark Daily – Science and Technology News and Commentary New Zealand's longest-running online daily news and commentary publication, now in its 14th year. (tags: blog geek newzealand) eBay [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2009 under Asides.
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They are not all Taliban
David Tate puts the difference between the different kind of bad guys in A’stan quite bluntly: …the coalition are fighting two distinct insurgencies in Afghanistan. The first, that keeps those in Regional Command South busy, is certainly a primarily Pashtun-led insurgency that is nationalist and religiously based to an extreme. However, there are also drug [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2009 under General.
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links for 2009-07-02
U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center (tags: COIN army military) Commander's Guide to Money as a Weapons System Handbook Center for Army Lessons Learned (tags: military) A Battlefield Tourist (tags: afghanistan)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009 under Asides.
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Commander’s Guide to Money as a Weapons System Handbook
Qui d’autre que la patrie du capitalisme pouvait produire un ouvrage aussi clair, sur comment obtenir son objectif pour moins cher et sans que cela coute des vies ? En achetant l’adversaire plutôt qu’en achetant des munitions pour le contraindre ?réponse dans le Handbook 09-27 du Center for Army Lessons Learned: Commander’s Guide to Money [...]
Posted: July 2nd, 2009 under General.
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links for 2009-07-01
Aide:Sommaire – Wikipédia (tags: wikipedia) GUCOPEX (tags: dictionary military afghanistan)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009 under Asides.
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