Новости за 21.08.2018

Insurgent Relief and Assistance Teams: The Free Burma Rangers Organize-Train-Equip-Sustain Model SWJED Tue, 08/21/2018 - 8:48am

Insurgents have a symbiotic relationship with their popular support base. The people provide money, food/supplies, new recruits, and intelligence while the insurgents provide protection, advancement of social, economic, and political aims, and social services, e.g., education and health care. Oppressive regimes attempt to separate the insurgents from their popular support base... Читать дальше...

Who needs democracy when you have data? Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611815/who-needs-democracy-when-you-have-data/ ---Quote--- In 1955, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story about an experiment...

‘Fierce and Warlike’: Could the Baloch Separatist Movement Remain Pakistan’s Longest Insurgency? SWJED Tue, 08/21/2018 - 7:13am

Greater attention has been drawn in recent years to the atrocities committed in Balochistan. The decades-long insurgency has galvanized the nation and cannot be resolved until there is better investment in civil efforts. The Supreme Court and its affiliated judicial bodies must convince the military to respect the law and be an example of human rights. The... Читать дальше...

Why Japan Truly Failed at Pearl Harbor (And What China May Learn From It) https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-japan-truly-failed-pearl-160000942.html In short, this is a rival who seems to have learned from Yamamoto: don’t jab a sleeping giant, and if you do, don’t steel his resolve. Let him slumber...

‘We Cannot Afford This’: Malaysia Pushes Back Against China’s Vision ---Quote--- A country that once courted Chinese investment now fears becoming overly indebted for big projects that are neither viable nor necessary — except to China. KUANTAN, Malaysia — In the world’s most vital maritime...

An article from the New Yorker on policing in the era of body worn video cameras alongside Taser. It is clearly dependent on Taser, now Axon's help, but does cover many of he issues....

The United States' Perpetual War in Afghanistan

The United States' Perpetual War in Afghanistan by Tanisha M. Fazal and Sarah Kreps - Foreign Affairs