Neal Rauhauseer: Afghanistan Coalition Casualties, Opium Poppies & Drone Strikes

Afghanistan: Coalition Casualties, Opium Poppies & Drone Strikes Funding The Syrian Insurgency was written almost five months ago and it references a 2006 paper by economist Paul Coller, Economic Causes of Civil Conflict and their Implications for Policy. Summarizing to a single sentence, insurgencies market themselves to claim moral high ground, but they always have an …

Rob Sentse: Influence Operations within Multinatinal Operations — Market Your “Product” Don’t Just Shove It Down Their Throats with Air Strikes and Night Raids

Influence behaviour. Market your product. Know the human environment as operations are predominantly conducted in urbanized terrain. Understanding the environment is fundamental in either conducting operations and analyzing any threat. Performing operations from a marketing perspective means that you have to: Review of the operational environment. Try to analyze a country as you would analyze …

Berto Jongman: Terrorists’ Psywar Strikes Fear From Middle East To Mindanao

Terrorists’ Psywar Strikes Fear From Middle East To Mindanao The Ramadan holiday is done and the threat to U.S. diplomats in most of the middle east is over.  Or at least they can return to their embassies and consulates with enough confidence to think the Al Qaeda bombers are not going to strike right away …

Berto Jongman: Yemen Criminalizes Drone Strikes

Yemen: The first steps towards criminalising drone strikes, Obama take note Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference decision to criminalise drone strikes is an essential step toward a stable Yemen. Ghada Eldemellawy al Ja’zeera, 2 August 2013 “America’s actions are legal” claimed President Obama in a speech on drones earlier this year. It was the latest in …

REVEALED: The True Story of Dr. Dr. Dave Warner and the Synergy Strike Force

The Merry Pranksters Who Hacked the Afghan War It was a dark time in a long, drawn-out war. Afghanistan was festering with resentment. The Pentagon brass were desperate. It was the kind of last-ditch moment when authorities start throwing an era’s weirdest ideas at its most hopeless bureaucratic mistakes. (ILLUSTRATIONS: GRAHAM SMITH) By Brian Calvert …