Masters of Chaos, Linda Robinson ISBN: 1586482491; 388 pages; Publisher: Public Affairs (October 30, 2004) Many books talk about what the U.S. Army Special Forces do, but few detail how they do it. Their mission certainly includes direct combat operations, but their primary mission is unconventional warfare, which revolves around teaching guerrillas or insurgents how Read More
Archives for April 2005
The Chicken or the Egg?
Which came first? Jobs that don’t pay enough to live on, or the workers to do them?
Officially Sanctioned Identity Theft
This is simply unbelievable. To summarize, Miami County, Ohio prosecutors and Ohio liquor-control investigators decided to investigate a strip club. To infiltrate, they used a a 22-year-old University of Dayton criminal justice major, who was also an intern with the U.S. Marshals Service and in a security post with the NASA Glenn Research Center in Read More
Nothing Difficult is Ever Easy
Yes, I know I haven’t been writing here as much as I probably should. But I’ve been productive in the other writing arena, at least up until today. 2,500 words since the first of April, and that’s better than half of what I wrote during the entire month of March, (4,500) so I’m getting somewhere–at Read More
Words From Global Affairs
GA is a forum I frequent. I’ve learned a lot there in the six months or so since I’ve joined. There are some great folks there, from all over the world. One of them goes by the handle ShinyTop, and he wrote this today: I have heard or read one too many times about how Read More