Daily Archive: August 20, 2003

All the recent hoopla about some Brit trying to flog a surface-air missile ignores the fact that thanks to the sterling efforts of mostly US-based weapons manufacturers and trickle-down information economics, it’s possible to...

This inside account of Iraqi resistance cells is startlingly similar to similar accounts by journalists of Northern Irish PIRA cells in the 1970s and 1980s. The PIRA originally used a broad hierarchical organization that...

I noticed a cute little entry in this month’s Harper’s Index, which perhaps explains why Afghanistan is increasingly becoming hostile and ungovernable… Ratio of UN peacekeepers to population in Kosovo… 40:1 Ratio of UN...