Saturday, January 10, 2004

GAO:  The estimated cost of mounting the 9/11 operation was between $300 and $500 thousand. 7:58:49 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Nice backgrounder.  RAND.  Regional demographics and the War on Terrorism. 2:39:23 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

MEMRI.  Al-Qaeda began publishing its first military-oriented e-zine. 1:50:18 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Parameters.  Ralph Peters:  "The New Warrior Class."  The soldiers of the United States Army are brilliantly prepared to defeat other soldiers. Unfortunately, the enemies we are likely to face through the rest of this decade and beyond will not be "soldiers," with the disciplined modernity that term conveys in Euro-America, but "warriors"--erratic primitives of shifting allegiance, habituated to violence, with no stake in civil order. Unlike soldiers, warriors do not play by our rules, do not respect treaties, and do not obey orders they do not like. Warriors have always been around, but with the rise of professional soldieries their importance was eclipsed. Now, thanks to a unique confluence of breaking empire, overcultivated Western consciences, and a worldwide cultural crisis, the warrior is back, as brutal as ever and distinctly better-armed. 1:23:36 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Good paper to read: Blogging the market. Dear K-Loggers, Here is an academic paper, written by George Dafermos, about we [klogs] 12:55:39 PM    Comment_ Trackback []