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		<title>Hooah!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off to Basic and Officer Candidate School. To friends and family who read this, thanks. I started this blog to explain what I thought were key concepts in military and international affairs. Like the BlackFive guys, I am frustrated by ignorant opinions and emotional rhetoric. I learned a hell of a lot more too. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netwar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1259582&amp;post=710&amp;subd=netwar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disrupting Networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many guerrilla war tactics are not new. They&#8217;ve just grown more effective because economies are far more sophisticated and more vulnerable. Infrastructure is one vulnerable network. The rest of the economy relies on communication, transportation, and energy networks. Information and resources flow through these networks. If critical nodes fail, or the links are severed, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netwar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1259582&amp;post=712&amp;subd=netwar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ichneumon Wasp</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious men of the 19th century believed that a benevolent God would only create a moral nature. How does one explain carnivores? At least they killed swiftly and prevented longer suffering from starvation. This was a form of just killing, so goes the reasoning. But they were at lost to explain the extreme cruelty Ichneumon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netwar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1259582&amp;post=663&amp;subd=netwar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nation-States Getting Divorced</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Industrial-era nation-states were a marriage of convenience. The central government took too much power from local states. It&#8217;s distant and unresponsive yet it gobbles up money and runs up an unsustainable debt. So why not break-up? In today&#8217;s world with free trade and currency unions, why bother with the central state anymore? Power is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netwar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1259582&amp;post=722&amp;subd=netwar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Struck Syrian Nukes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Insurgency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Syria is supposed to have taken nuclear material or weapons from North Korea (or Iran), Israel tracked it and destroyed it in the airstrike last week. Maybe. But it&#8217;s looking more and more like it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netwar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1259582&amp;post=721&amp;subd=netwar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Artificial Societies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MIT Technology Review has an article on Joshua Epstein and artificial life models. (registration required) Epstein: &#8220;Artificial society modeling allows us to &#8216;grow&#8217; social structures in silico demonstrating that certain sets of microspecifications are sufficient to generate the macrophenomena of interest.&#8221; In other words, after 250 years we&#8217;re back to the Invisible Hand. A small [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netwar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1259582&amp;post=718&amp;subd=netwar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Purpose of Empires</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Empires have been the most historically stable form of government. The purpose of historical empires was to create and secure an economic zone. Empires were not about the acquisition of land, much less looting. It just extended a unified political and legal system over new territory and provided the means to defend it against criminal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netwar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1259582&amp;post=711&amp;subd=netwar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sandpiles of Man</title>
		<link>http://netwar.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/sandpiles-of-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want to make a conjecture about international relations. This is a work-in-progress model that combines two theories – Complex Adaptive Systems and Self-Organizing Criticality to explain power law distributions of major events and social structures. These two theories may describe the non-linear dynamic systems in human relations. Men self-organize into scale-free networks to gain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netwar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1259582&amp;post=555&amp;subd=netwar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Quad and the SCO</title>
		<link>http://netwar.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/the-quad-and-the-sco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ian Bremmer has a good article about the limited prospects for Russian-Chinese cooperation. The Great Powers are looking at Central Asia and the Pacific as the economic center of gravity. There are new exploratory alliances starting &#8211; The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Quad Initiative. Basically, the Quad controls the Pacific and the SCO controls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netwar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1259582&amp;post=695&amp;subd=netwar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[R. Stephen White debunks the misinformation claiming nuclear power is not &#8220;safe.&#8221; Safety is judged incrementally, not categorically. Newspapers, commentators, the public, you and I all evaluate certain actions as &#8220;risky&#8221; or &#8220;extremely risky&#8221; with little idea of the magnitude of the risk involved. &#8230; Really, how risky is nuclear power? The Three Mile Island [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netwar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1259582&amp;post=708&amp;subd=netwar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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