EUCOM Week in Review Ending 30 December 2009

Hot Topics AA: Instability in Iran negative for Azerbaijan, political scientist 12/29/09 AA: Lebanon’s Druze leader urges Israeli Druze not to serve in IDF 12/29/09 AA: National Intelligence Estimate Targets Organized Crime 12/28/09 AA: Switzerland spoiled Turkey’s EU dream 12/29/09 AM: Armenia – FY 2009 Results Summed Up by the Head of Government 12/28/09 AZ: …

Reference: Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC)

The full title is “The Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC) in Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti).  Although dated March 1997, this is a very fine contribution that maintains its relevance, not least because of its descriptions of both the functions and the effect of the functions in dealing with NGOs (like herding turkeys). For best effect, …

Journal: MILNET Focus on Afghanistan

Interview With Dutch Major General Mart de Kruif, Former Commander, Regional Command South Phi Beta Iota: Read every word.  Highlights include: ;1)  Every province is difference (see General Zinni’s characterization of the six different Viet-Nam wars in Battle Ready) 2)  Climate and Ops Tempo, not the Taliban, are the major challenge 3)  Taliban losing, resorting …

Journal: Muslim Tide Arousing US Heartland Anger But Loss of Moral Legitimacy Via Israel and Loss of National Intelligence Shackles America

Nazi Eurabia, and America’s Fate By Jim O’Neill Thursday, December 17, 2009 “The Crusader would have been quite justified in suspecting the Muslim even if the Muslim had merely been a new stranger; but as a matter of history he was already an old enemy. The critic of the Crusade talks as if it had …