Monthly Archive: March 2003

Pundits love to say that Generals always fight every new war as if it were the last, but the current US invasion strategy harkens back to the Wermacht’s Blitzkrieg strategy more than any other...

I mentioned I thought it was likely that the US would begin eliminating many in-country anti-Saddam forces of any significance, but I didn’t expect it to happen so soon. A local Kurdish group called...

So Turkey is invading northern Iraq, conveniently close to their arch-enemies, the Kurds, who meanwhile are in a defensive posture facing off against both the Iraqis and the Turks. The Turks have been warned...

What’s it like for the targets of such a heavily mediated war? Rich nations can use their spysats and UAVs to gather intelligence while poor nations are reduced to watching the TV for vital...

An interesting article exploring the tensions between the republicans, the neocons, and the christians in the Bush Junta. Some of these groups are more hawkish than others: some would settle for a negotiated peace...

It’s always difficult to count how many of the “enemy” have been killed during war.

So now I notice that Roger’s paid Google adword for “meehawl” points to a rather bizarre little set of Irish news snippets. I applaud this financial Rubicon and earnestly hope that it’ll stop him...

So Osama’s niece, Waffa Bin Laden, wants to be a pop star. Good luck with that! Allah loves a trier.

At the infamous 2001 Genoa G8 summit, the world was stunned when a young protestor was shot dead by police, but only recently did the rest of the ugly story emerge. In one especially...