New Gazan Push
According to Haaretz, Israel is sending in observers/ambassadors to Gaza in order to make its push for int’l legitimacy to its coming mass offensive in Gaza. Defense Minister Ehud Barak (former PM)...
View Article4th Generation Warfare in Gaza: Hamas, Israel, and Creveldian Realistic...
I don’t have much to say on the tragedy that is transpiring over in Israel/Gaza. Only to say that it yet again proves the veracity of Martin Van Creveld’s thesis that since the nuclear age, since the...
View ArticleArticle on Hamas for C11
I have an article up at Culture11 on the “rationality” (means-end rationality not the rationality of their goals/ends in mind) of Hamas. The link is here. Big ups to political editor extraordinaire...
View ArticleTom Segev: Conflict Management not Peace in The Middle East
Tom Segev, Israeli jouranlist (and author of the actually good book on the 67 War) with an insightful if nearly totally depressing op-ed in the Washington Post. Segev: I belong to a generation of...
View ArticleFollow up on Proportionality in Asymmetrical War
Nagarjuna excerpts a nice line from a piece in The Economist and then comments on it (quoting a piece from my earlier post on the subject). The Economist graf that he quotes is the following: A country...
View ArticleSkyepcast: Israel-Gaza (Audio Content)
israel-gaza.mp3 Scott and I discuss the Israeli-Hamas war. Click the link above to open a new player with the audio. To download for Mac Users (Ctrl + Mouse), Windows users right-click Save As....
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