Earlier today a single perpetrator went on a shooting spree at a shopping mall in Munich, Germany. The Munich Police have now issued an all clear, confirming a single shooter, and indicating that public transportation has resumed and the shelter in place order is lifted. A press conference is ongoing, so we’ll hopefully have more …
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The Gray Zone Under Threat: Straining Alliances
The Gray Zone, the civil space that allows for people to exist outside of their private lives and participate in societal, political, economic, and to some extent religious activities, is not just threatened by terrorist attacks and the extremism they’re rooted in, or systemic failures of political and social institutions as they age. It is …
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Time to Talk Turkey: The Coup de Yesterjour
As became apparent early this morning the attempted coup to overthrow President Erdogan’s government failed. And it failed pretty spectacularly. There are several reasons for this. The first is that this was, despite all the initial reporting, not a coup led by even a majority of the senior military leadership. While a number of general officers/flag …
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Turkish Coup Update: The Coup Has Failed
Update at 12:10 AM EDT Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yldirim has announced that Umit Dundar is the new acting Chief of the Turkish Military. There is still no new information on the whereabouts and the status of the actual Chief of Staff, General Hulusi Akar. I saw a tweet several hours ago saying he’d been rescued …
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For the Sixth Time in Its Modern History the Turkish Military Has Seized Control
Update at 10:50 PM EDT Things seemed to have slowed way down in regards to information coming out of Turkey. The Turkish Prosecutor’s Office in Ankara has reported that there a 42 dead civilians, 17 of whom were police. Thirteen soldiers who tried to storm the Presidential Palace have been arrested. Update at 8:55 PM EDT …
Bastille Day Attack in Nice
Update at 1:05 PM EDT The Guardian is reporting that the explosive found in the truck was an inactive grenade and that the guns were fake rifles. —————————— Not really an update, but in case anyone is interested, here is the link to the pdf of Galula’s Pacification of Algeria. Update at 10:05 PM EDT Here’s …
Through the Looking Glass: Hope is Not a Strategy
The short course for strategy and policy is really quite quick and simple. To make policy one determines what your ideal objectives are, establish how much risk you are willing to assume to achieve them, and then either decide to attempt to achieve those objectives or a less than ideal, but still perfectly acceptable, but …
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