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MoStFab: The attacks on Afghan Shiites
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Tuesday, December 6, 2011. The attacks on Afghan Shiites. From the New York Times. On the coordinated - Kabul, Kandahar and Mazar-i-Sharif - attacks on Shiites, coming during Ashura and very clearly sending a message connected to the Bonn II conference:. Having said that, they went there on organised tours, so this is not to doubt the NYT's speculation about the help provided to L-e-J's militants. Posted by Péter Marton. The Stupidest Ma...
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MoStFab: The NYT on the PRTs
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Tuesday, February 8, 2011. The NYT on the PRTs. The NYT has an elegant way of blending fiction with non-fiction. Although this is not a compliment, by way of some wishful thinking perhaps, they do manage to seamlessly weave together the two in the following passages of their account. Of what Hamed Karzai did not say at the Munich security conference. Karzai Seeks End to NATO Reconstruction Teams". You can find here. Posted by Péter Marton.
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MoStFab: The politics of coalition burden-sharing: The Steve Irwin way of doing COIN
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Thursday, October 27, 2011. The politics of coalition burden-sharing: The Steve Irwin way of doing COIN. There is a new report. Out from the Australian Land Warfare Studies Centre. The Americans at JMRC (Joint Mission Readiness Centre – Hohenfels, Germany) commented on how good our (Australian and New Zealand) soldiers were at switching from a hearts and minds focus to killing the enemy, and then switching back just as quickly to c...
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MoStFab: Footage from Pakistan
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Wednesday, March 2, 2011. British tabloids picked up the story. Not too surprisingly, nevertheless it relates to the focus of this blog. Filmed in Pakistan, the shortest. I hope this was not filmed before some kind of special martyrdom operation. Posted by Péter Marton. Wednesday, March 02, 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Valuable, useful, interesting, or informative blogs). Alex Strick van Linschoten. Bill and Bob's Excellent.
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MoStFab: This blogpost is an information operation (sort of)
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Monday, February 28, 2011. This blogpost is an information operation (sort of). Yes, all in all, I believe that Joe Harlan is right. Information operations certainly cannot work. Michael Hastings is looking for attention. As LtCol. Holmes suggests in Michael "McChrystal-clearer" Hastings' article. Michael Hastings is looking for attention. Rolling Stone magazine. Information operations are not mechanical, undetected manipulations. As to ...
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MoStFab: The politics of coalition burden-sharing: "Stand aside" forces
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Sunday, October 23, 2011. The politics of coalition burden-sharing: "Stand aside" forces. A few days ago. The above slide is from one of Anthony Cordesman's presentations. Will be either "servants" or "onlookers," respectively, in our categorisation. And largely it is of course these two categories of countries from which you will find Cordesman's "allied caveat and stand aside forces" deployed. Regardless of by what terms we refer to th...
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MoStFab: A new book: Multinational statebuilding in Afghanistan
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See my conceptualisation of state failure on the right flank below. Saturday, August 27, 2011. A new book: Multinational statebuilding in Afghanistan. A lot of work went into this one - and I'm proud to announce that this book (see below) has finally been published, with editing and contributions by Yours Truly - and with contributions from many other authors with whom it was an honour to work together and a pleasure to write it. I'm sharing news of it in the hope that you may find it interesting. This b...
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DemoBlog: Another Project Done
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Friday, February 09, 2007. The Gates research project officially ended at the end of January. My project manager, Ricken, submitted it to the Gates Foundation last week and now I am just waiting for official permission to distribute the final report to the people I interviewed during the research process. Hopefully, the report will become public domain, in which case I will also post it on my website. In Washington in April. That should be fun. This weekend Paolo and I are visiting friends in Santa Cruz.
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DemoBlog: March 2007
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007. I won't be able to attend the Nonprofit Technology Conference. Next week in DC as I will be in Nigeria working on a consulting job for the OpenNet Initiative. Nevertheless, I'll be presenting my article "Leapfrogging Borders: Social Change Technology in the Global South and its Implications for American NTAPs" at the conference via video. Here it is, five minutes of fun for your viewing pleasure. ;). The URL for the video is http:/ www.youtube.com/watch?
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DemoBlog: January 2007
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007. Gates Project 24: Final Edits. I've received a couple of queries as to where in the work process we are. In answer to those questions, we are in the finishing-it-up-an-turning-it-in phase. We will be submitting the report to the Gates Foundation at the end of this month. Posted by DemoBlogger : 12:18 PM 2 comments. Friday, January 05, 2007. Dear SaveDarfur.org: Let's Link. Dear SaveDarfur.org,. I am a member of Save Darfur. A 24-hour video link between the US and Darfur. Let th...
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