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Daily Archives: October 20, 2005
German Navy – German navy gets new submarines
Xinhua – The German navy got on Wednesday two conventionally-powered submarines, which military officials say are the most modern such ships currently in service.
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Wargaming – And now, the war forecast
Economist – Can software really predict the outcome of an armed conflict, just as it can predict the course of the weather?
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Transformation – Come the Revolution
Naval War College Review – The Asia-Pacific militaries are making impressive strides in modernization, but modernization and transformation are not the same thing. What is impeding their progress in fully implementing the revolution in military affairs? Do they need to do that? What will happen if they do not?
Geopolitics / Islam – A Clash of Systems: An Analytical Framework to Demystify the Radical Islamist Threat
Parameters – The purpose of this article is to provide an alternative framework to Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” that instead portrays the current global conflict as a clash of systems, not civilizations.