“The reason that CIA Director George Tenet told President George Bush that al Qaeda would survive bin Laden’s assassination is because it is true: in 4GW the movement is much more than the sum of its parts. Fourth-Generation Wars often last decades, beyond the fighting life of almost all of its members. We have never [...]
It has been said that ‘fourth generation warfare’ (4GW) includes all forms of conflict where the other side refuses to stand up and fight fair. Smart commanders throughout history, however, have tried to deceive, trick, and confuse their opponents. Is anything really new?More>
TYRE, Lebanon – Israeli warplanes and artillery attacks Friday hit Hezbollah positions and crushed houses and roads in southern Lebanon, killing up to 12 people. Hezbollah said it fired a new kind of rocket, which landed deeper insideIsrael than hundreds of other strikes in 17 days of fighting. Later Friday, a Hezbollah rocket hit the [...]
Story by: Bruce Vincent For those of us who sometimes find ourselves having doubts about our President, here is an excellent piece — worth every minute it takes to read it. This story is from Bruce Vincent of Libby, Montana who had gone to the White House with others to receive an award from the [...]
One of 13 Melbourne men accused of being members of a terrorist group pledged in the presence of Osama bin Laden to commit jihad or holy war, a court has been told.More>
The assault trial of a man accused of shoving a cell phone down a woman’s throat has begun. Prosecutors say 24-year-old Marlon Brando Gill was angry and jealous when he forced the phone into Melinda Abell’s throat in December. But defense attorneys insist the 25-year-old victim swallowed the phone intentionally to prevent Gill from finding [...]
By Clifford Coonan in BeijingPublished: 22 July 2006 Human rights groups have called for the release of a Straits Times journalist Ching Cheong, who was jailed in April 2005 accused of spying for Taiwan. Mr Ching, who was born in China, is due to be sentenced this month and faces execution if convicted. More>
Posted on Friday, July 21, 2006. By Ken Silverstein.Sources I reported in May that despite the deteriorating situation in Iraq, no National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) has been produced on that country since the summer of 2004. The last NIE, a classified document that the CIA describes as “the most authoritative written judgment concerning a national [...]
If there is one profoundly reactionary sector in Latin America, it is the leftist intellectuals. They are a people without memory. I have never heard one of them admit he made a mistake. Marxism has become an intellectual vice. It is the superstition of the entire century.” —Octavio Paz, Quoted by Alan Riding, New York [...]
- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984