Новости за 18.08.2018

Surge in Taliban Attacks Keeps U.S., Afghan Guessing on Peace Talks

Surge in Taliban Attacks Keeps U.S., Afghan Guessing on Peace Talks

Taliban Chief: U.S. Offers to End Afghan War 'Neither Rational Nor Practical'

Taliban Chief: U.S. Offers to End Afghan War 'Neither Rational Nor Practical'

Some recent wargaming posts at PAXsims that may be of interest: * Developing a wargame of the 2017 liberation of West Mosul: https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/we-are-coming-nineveh/ * Trip report from a week of wargaming discussions at the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory:...

My report on the *2018 Connections US* professional wargang conference can be found at https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/connections-us-2018-report/ * *Connections UK 2018* will be held at King's College London on 4-6 September 2018: http://www.professionalwargaming.co.uk *...

Russia is Not America’s Near-Peer Threat SWJED Sat, 08/18/2018 - 12:39am

The U.S. military has re-orientated its efforts to countering and deterring Russia abroad. While American counterintelligence and law enforcement has focused on information warfare from Russian assets both abroad and in country, the military has re-shaped its training and deployment to reflect near-peer armed conflict in Europe. Commanders have lost sight of counterinsurgency theory and counterterrorism, replacing... Читать дальше...

Replacing Afghan Honor with Taliban Disgust: The Specter of Ethnic Cleansing – Part 2 of 3 SWJED Sat, 08/18/2018 - 12:28am

The Taliban fighter today does not seek honor. He seeks cleanliness. When contaminated, he uses blood, the blood of that which is non-Taliban, as soul bleach. Any act, no matter how far outside the realm of human decency or of traditional Afghan honor codes it may be, now becomes possible for a Taliban fighter as long as he cleanses himself in medias res or ex post facto, in blood. Читать дальше...

Erik Prince's Proposal to Privatize Afghanistan War Not Under Consideration, NSC Says

Erik Prince's Proposal to Privatize Afghanistan War Not Under Consideration, NSC Says by Grace Segers - CBS News

The U.S. Could Spend $92 Million on a Parade - Or Put it Back into U.N. Peacekeeping

The U.S. Could Spend $92 Million on a Parade - Or Put it Back into U.N. Peacekeeping by Rick Noack – Washington Post

Violence in Context: Mapping the Strategies and Operational Art of Irregular Warfare

Violence in Context: Mapping the Strategies and Operational Art of Irregular Warfare by David H. Ucko and Thomas A. Marks - Taylor & Francis Online

Syria’s Last Rebel Stronghold Girds for Regime Assault

Syria’s Last Rebel Stronghold Girds for Regime Assault by Raja Abdulrahim – Wall Street Journal

U.S. Ending Funding for Syria Recovery Projects, Shifting Burden to Other Nations

U.S. Ending Funding for Syria Recovery Projects, Shifting Burden to Other Nations by Tracy Wilkinson – Los Angeles Times