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Sunday, October 31, 2004 |
 Aviation Week (no link). The U.S. military may have a huge advantage in weaponry in battling insurgents in Iraq, but when it comes to using cellular communications they are "at least as good as we," says Lt. Gen. William Wallace, commanding general of the Army Combined Arms Center and former commander of V Corps. Adversaries may actually be using networks more effectively to collaborate and to build hard-to-detect communications, he adds.
8:38:26 PM 
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The march of search-based e-mail. Yahoo buys Bloomba. This is a big weakness of Oddpost.
8:20:40 AM
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Signs of a Bush win: incumbents are in line to sweep and Bush isn't pandering to his base (they seem to be safely locked in).
Also, an interesting backhanded endorsement of Kerry by the Economist.
8:08:32 AM
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USAToday. Cause for concern. Afghanistan's guerrillas are starting to adopt elements of global guerrilla warfare. Hostage taking and assassination when slaved to disrupting people flows (NGOs, expertise, etc.) is extremely effective (particularly when combined with media manipulation). However, given the rural nature of Afghanistan, the ability of guerrillas to adopt system disruption wholesale is limited.
8:04:53 AM
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Thanks to everyone reading global guerrillas. It's amazing that the site gets between 3-5,000 visitors a day given my infrequent posting. It demonstrates the appetite for cogent analysis of this conflict. Also, thanks to all of the people that send me links and data that is relevant to my analysis.
8:02:20 AM
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NYT. Frustration, fear, and a lack of discipline is rife in the Iraqi national guard (the incident occured after US forces had left the area of the attack). Remember, this force is driven by a paycheck and not loyalty to the government (which can't seem to protect them).
Iraqi police officers and National Guardsmen fired wildly at civilians on a road south of Baghdad after insurgents attacked an American convoy, The Associated Press reported. The Iraqi forces shot at and threw grenades at three minibuses and three vans, killing at least 14 people and injuring 10 others, witnesses and a doctor said. Video from Associated Press Television News showed bodies riddled with bullet holes inside buses and on the road near Haswa, a town 25 miles south of the capital. An interior ministry spokesman, Sabah Kadhum, confirmed in an interview that Iraqi forces had fired on six vehicles.
7:51:09 AM
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ABC. An Iranian nuke is on the way and it enjoys broad support (unanimous vote to support it). Given our (and Israel's) inability to stop this without a radical act (which would push us into further instability in the region given the potential reaction), the question becomes: is Iran, despite the rhetoric, a rational actor? We found that Soviet Union, despite an aggressive ideology and doctrine of warfare that accomodated the use of nukes, was at core a rational actor.
Shouts of "Death to America!" rang out in the conservative-dominated parliament after lawmakers voted to advance the nation's nuclear program, an issue of national pride...
7:35:44 AM
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Dave just gave me a back-to-the-future moment with the idea of a BitTorrent screensaver. My mid-1996 Forrester report on "Personal Broadcast Networks" was essentially about an open architecture for PointCast that would expand to include multimedia. Try as I could with Chris Hassett (the CEO of PointCast) we couldn't figure out how to get from where he was to where he needed to go. Dave (RSS, enclosures, aggregators), Adam (Podcasting), Bram (BitTorrent), and others solved that. It's cool to see this come to fruition.
7:24:18 AM
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