Americans Embattled Some argue that we still live as serfs in a feudal-like society and that the Age of Imperialism never ended. We work for corporations now instead of lords of estates,…
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What Is Asymmetrical Warfare?
The term “Asymmetrical Warfare” is frequently used to describe what is also called “guerrilla warfare”, “insurgency”, “terrorism”, “counterinsurgency”, and “counterterrorism”, essentially violent conflict between a formal military and an informal, less equipped…
A Giant-Sized History Of Oil
From decomposed organic material forgotten for hundreds of millions of years, to diplomacy commodity and petroleum politics, the ascent of oil as fuel for the rise (and fall?) of society seems unreal….
A Giant-Sized History of Warfare & Military Technologies
I’ve always been a fan of military strategy research and weapons history. Hannibal’s elephants vs. the Alps, Caesar’s rapid deployments, even how Filipino martial arts came to be… my interests in this…
Russia’s Asymmetrical Warfare
Russia’s objective in asymmetric warfare is to avoid direct military operations while interfering in the internal conflicts in other countries. In a 2003 article for the Russian-language journal International Trends, Victor Kremenyuk…