Defence and Freedom
2016/07/12

Musings about above-ground sovereignty

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. (This is totally not based on research about the actual legal situation; mere thoughts.) Airspace sovereignty is an interesting and u...
2016/07/11

The great irony of imperialism

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. The original idea of imperialism and colonialism was that additional provinces/colonies equal greater wealth. This has always been ...
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2016/07/10

Warsaw Summit Communiqué

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. Here is NATO's Warsaw Summit Communiqué . Keep in mind such texts are usually prepared by bureaucrats and 2nd rank politicians ah...

Decision by attrition or decision by manoeuvre

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. As I mentioned earlier: Indirect fires (mostly artillery) are the main killer (80-95% of ground combat KIA), tanks are the main enabl...
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2016/07/09

Political and military deterrence

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. I have an (intuitive?) aversion against the fashionable 'symbolic' policies such as sending a Patriot battery to Turkey, Israel...
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2016/07/08

[blog] topics incoming

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. Incoming are some more blog posts, especially "Political and military deterrence", "Decision by attrition or decision by ...
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2016/07/07

Antimilitaristic blogging

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. To everyone who mistakes my interest in getting the military right with militarism: It's the opposite, it's antimilitaristic...
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If John McCain was No.44 ...

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. ... the United States would likely have - perpetuated the war participation in Iraq with ten thousands of American troops there till to...
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2016/07/06

Hawkish wannabe politician generals

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. Western Generals have acquired a reputation for being rather anti-war than pro-war, knowing about the horrors of warfare. This is contra...
2016/07/05

Theses on future air war, future air forces

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. These are the theses that I published (or implied) over the last nine years. (1) Missiles such as Iskander, LORA et cetera can and sh...
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