Stephen John Morgan
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Behind the Turkey-Kurdish Conflict
The Kurds are an ancient people tracing their roots back to 3000 B.C. With over 40 million Kurds estimated to be spread out in a arc of territory stretching from Syria across Turkey and Iran, they are considered to be the world’s largest ethnic group without their own homeland. At the end of the 1 st World War their territories fell victim to the redrawing of the map of the Middle East leaving them dived and... (posted by Stephen John 4 years 116 days ago.)
The Kurds are an ancient people tracing their roots back to 3000 B.C. With over 40 million Kurds estimated to be spread out in a arc of territory stretching from Syria across Turkey and Iran, they are considered to be the world’s largest ethnic group without their own homeland. At the end of the 1 st World War their territories fell victim to the redrawing of the map of the Middle East leaving them dived and... (posted by Stephen John 4 years 116 days ago.)
US Used Neutron Bomb to Take Baghdad
"The biggest story of the war became a non-event when the truth of the matter was that it was simply too bloody an event to report." Captain Eric H. May, former intelligence officer. Ever more reports are emerging on the likelihood that the US experimented with tactical nuclear weapons against the Iraqi armed forces four years ago during the last days of the invasion. (posted by Stephen John 4 years 294 days ago.)
"The biggest story of the war became a non-event when the truth of the matter was that it was simply too bloody an event to report." Captain Eric H. May, former intelligence officer. Ever more reports are emerging on the likelihood that the US experimented with tactical nuclear weapons against the Iraqi armed forces four years ago during the last days of the invasion. (posted by Stephen John 4 years 294 days ago.)
Insurgent psychology – Honour, Dignity, Shame and Humiliation – the roots of an endless war
Working out the perspectives for war takes a certain type of empathy. It should not be confused with sympathy or even, in this case, as necessitating a positive connotation. Every general should be empathetic to his enemy counterpart. If he is to stand a good chance of anticipating his moves and thereby forearming himself with the knowledge to defeat him, he must... (posted by Stephen John 4 years 333 days ago.)
Working out the perspectives for war takes a certain type of empathy. It should not be confused with sympathy or even, in this case, as necessitating a positive connotation. Every general should be empathetic to his enemy counterpart. If he is to stand a good chance of anticipating his moves and thereby forearming himself with the knowledge to defeat him, he must... (posted by Stephen John 4 years 333 days ago.)
"Better another Taliban Afghanistan, than a Taliban NUCLEAR Pakistan!?"
It took the Soviets 10 years and the loss of 15,000 troops before they admitted they admitted defeat in Afghanistan. For the West, it will not take so long for the slow bleed to becomes a haemorrhage. It will be only a matter of one or two years, at the most before, Afghanistan falls and the country collapses again into fragmentation and internal civil war. It may indeed come... (posted by Stephen John 4 years 345 days ago.)
It took the Soviets 10 years and the loss of 15,000 troops before they admitted they admitted defeat in Afghanistan. For the West, it will not take so long for the slow bleed to becomes a haemorrhage. It will be only a matter of one or two years, at the most before, Afghanistan falls and the country collapses again into fragmentation and internal civil war. It may indeed come... (posted by Stephen John 4 years 345 days ago.)
The Sisyphean Surge : Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.
“A hundred thousand men were led. By one calf near three centuries dead…For thus such reverence is lent to well-established precedent…For men are prone to go it blind among the calf-paths of the mind, and work away from sun to sun to do what other men have done." Sam Walter Foss (Sisyphus was a mythical Greek figure, condemned for playing god, to have to to roll a rock up... (posted by Stephen John 4 years 356 days ago.)
“A hundred thousand men were led. By one calf near three centuries dead…For thus such reverence is lent to well-established precedent…For men are prone to go it blind among the calf-paths of the mind, and work away from sun to sun to do what other men have done." Sam Walter Foss (Sisyphus was a mythical Greek figure, condemned for playing god, to have to to roll a rock up... (posted by Stephen John 4 years 356 days ago.)
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