Monthly Archives:: July 2006

Geopolitics / India – The India Model

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Foreign Affairs – After being shackled by the government for decades, India’s economy has become one of the world’s strongest. The country’s unique development model — relying on domestic consumption and high-tech services — has brought a quarter century of record growth despite an incompetent and heavy-handed state. But for that growth to continue, the [...]

Information Warfare – Cyber-Mobilization: The New LevÈe en Masse

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Parameters – The means and ends of mass mobilization are changing, bypassing the traditional state-centered approach that was the hallmark of the French Revolution and leaving advanced Western democracies merely to react to the results. Todayís dynamic social, economic, and political transitions are as important to war as were the changes at the end of [...]

Israeli Navy – Hezbollah's unexpected firepower

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New York Times – U.S. and Israeli officials said the successful attack last Friday on an Israeli naval vessel was the strongest evidence to date of direct support by Iran to Hezbollah. The attack was carried out with a sophisticated anti-ship cruise missile, the C-802, an Iranian-made variant of the Chinese Silkworm. StrategyPage – Chinese [...]