HT: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/07/17/the_middle_east_friendship_chart.html
The Middle East Friendship Chart
24 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Middle-East politics
Emperor Hirohito at Hiroshima, December 7th, 1945
24 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, World War II
Dresden, 1945
15 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
Great satellite photo of the Korean peninsula by night
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: North Korea, South Korea, workers paradise
Korean Peninsula from the International Space Station http://t.co/wMP6xT3yan—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) January 06, 2015
Thomas C. Schelling on why international terrorism is so rare
09 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, economics of crime, industrial organisation, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, Thomas Schelling, war and peace Tags: terrorism, Thomas Schelling, war against terror
Bill Maher: Hundreds of Millions of Muslims Support Attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’
09 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
HT: Steve Wrathall
Egypt to double size of ‘buffer zone’ along Gaza border
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: blockades, Egypt, Gaza Strip, left-wing double standards, Left-wing hypocrisy
Where is the international protest movement? Once again, the only explanation is that they must have been kidnapped.
There is no other reason why they are not protesting against Egypt’s blockade of the Gaza Strip in the same way they protest against the breaches of international law involved in the Israeli blockade!
More homes face demolition as Egyptian security forces warn people a buffer zone with Gaza is to be extended.
‘Inside Story’, Al Jazeera, 5 December 2014
Egypt plans to double the size of a buffer zone along its border with the Gaza Strip.
The [Egyptian] government says the measure is intended to put an end to the movement of armed fighters and weapons from Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The first phase of the operation began in October, days after 30 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on a checkpoint close to the Gaza border.
Thousands of people in northern Sinai were ordered to move out. Their homes were then bulldozed and bombed. The buffer zone runs for about 13km along Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.
The first phase cleared an area 500 metres wide, destroying homes and tunnels used for smuggling. The security buffer is…
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Paris terrorists armed with military weapons but little military training
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in human capital, war and peace
…the shooters at one point cross each other’s paths as they advance up the street – a type of movement that professional military personnel are trained to avoid as it would limit the ability of the shooters to maximize firepower.
… the gunmen again are seen firing in the middle of the street…. there appears to be little use of cover and their shooting stance, or posture, is not what would be expected from highly trained fighters.
“From what I’ve seen their shooting stance and movement indicates they are not well trained,” Dan Rassachak, a Marine with training in close-combat skills, said in an e-mail.
Pre-World War I and post-World War I maps of Europe
02 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: maps, World War I
Christmas truce 1914, no man’s land
25 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
German and British troops forgot about the war for a moment and played football in the Christmas Truce of 1914 in WWI http://t.co/W1vqQ01MKn—
Historical Pics (@HistoricalPics) December 17, 2014
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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