Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Tuesday March 27
Thursday, March 8th, 2007NOSI is taking a spring break and will next update on Tuesday March 27. See you then!
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Archive for March 8th, 2007
Royal Marines – Talking, waiting, joking, killing . . . ten days in the Taleban’s sights
Thursday, March 8th, 2007The Times – As Nato begins its biggest offensive in the country since 2001, two Times journalists report from a risky mission into the insurgentsí heartland in lawless Helmand province. The Royal Marines of J Company, 42 Commando, sometimes sat down with local Pashtuns and sometimes skirmished. Then they fought them in pitched battle.
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Ground Warfare – Iraq’s Mercenary King
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Vanity Fair – As a former C.I.A. agent, the author Robert Baer knows how mercenaries work: in the shadows. But how did a notorious former British officer, Tim Spicer, come to coordinate the second-largest army in Iraq – the tens of thousands of private security contractors?
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Intelligence – A Swedish Lesson
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Defense and the National Interest – An interesting essay from William Lind on what military intelligence *should* be – “a correction from below.”
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