Jan 13, 2010

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Failure as a Strategy

Some thinking on terrorism that may be of interest:The recent al Qaeda sponsored attempt to blow up an Northwest Airways flight is an example of an interesting, but likely inadvertent strategy:  failure.  Given the earlier example of 9/11, even failed attacks provide the following benefits:New and sweeping rules on airline passengers (most inane) and beefed up security.New...

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Oct 14, 2009

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Blood, Rage, and History:
The World’s First Terrorists

“Blood, Rage, and History: The World’s First Terrorists”by Johann HariThe Independent, October 12, 2009Imagine it. A network of violent radicals is picking off the world’s leaders one by one. They have killed the American President, the Russian head of state, the French President, the Austrian head of state, and the Spanish Prime Minister.Bomb attacks are...

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Sep 27, 2009

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The Hot Rod of the Apocalypse

Mike DavisBuda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car BombLondon: Verso, 2007“L’automobile, c’est la guerre.”– Léon DaudetThe prototype of the apocalyptic hot rod was “Buda’s wagon.”In September 1920, shortly after the arrest of two Italian anarchists (the soon-to-be-famous Sacco and Vanzetti), another Italian anarchist, Mario...

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Sep 19, 2009

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If I Had a Camera:
James O’Keefe, Insurgent Filmmaker

Editor’s Note: For the latest on James O’Keefe, see the Big Government website.“Candid Camera pranks smoke out US liberals”by John HarlowTimesOnline, September 20, 2009A conservative student armed with a video camera and a wicked sense of humour is humbling some of the most hallowed liberal institutions in the United States using a technique described as...

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Jul 27, 2009

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John Robb on Open Source Warfare

“Emergent Intelligence in Open Source Warfare”by John Robbfrom Global Guerrillas, February 11, 2006Open source warfare, like what we see in Iraq and increasingly in other locations, relies on networks of peers rather than the hierarchies of command and control we see in conventional militaries. This structure provides an open source movement with levels of innovation...

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Jul 22, 2009

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Open-Source Warfare

“Open-Source Warfare”by Robert N. Charettefrom IEEE Spectrum, November 2007On the afternoon of Thursday, 8 April 2004, U.S. troops stationed in Iraq deployed a small remote-controlled robot to search for improvised explosive devices. The robot, a PackBot unit made by iRobot Corp., of Burlington, Mass., found an IED, but the discovery proved its undoing. The IED...

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