@ Mr. AJFitzpatrick. What you say is very true, thank you for your input. Do you think that if there was a unified strategy that Ireland would have been more stronger militarily. It seems that this idea was of not having a unified strategy goes further back than the English invasion. Yet as...
Haha sorry gentlemen, about the confusion. If whiskey is a more argued topic, hopefully we can agree on the fact that irish beer especially Harp is the best from all Western Europe. haha.
Thank you Mr. Old Sweat and Mr. Irish and Mr. Campbell and Mr. Technoviking and others for your...
Hello everyone,
Considering that Gaelic Ireland was known as a place of great knowlede and had a well developed society. The art of warfare was considerably less developed. It would seem that the accounts state the use most sucessful against the British seems to have been guerilla warfare...
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/22/this_week_at_war_the_libya_model
Interesting article since it refers to afghanistan and how this method worked well against the taliban.
Do people here think this method should be used more often?
These people do have history working with communities both here and abroad but it seemed to state that they would at the more bureaucratic end of things. The SIRC paper does contradict more what the article states. Yet I believe there are other articles on the internet where the members of the...
Interesting point about CSIS and the RCMP. It seems then that there will always be inter service rivalries.
You are definitively right about the issue of wire taping. It seems that CSE has more leeway in terms of collecting intelligence...
I am sorry gentlemen but I do not concur with your statements. I do not think we have to worry about an agency going rogue and becoming those who deny us our liberties, we are not Burma or Egypt. Of course there will be some excesses as you say Mr. Campbell and Mr. DBA but at some point in time...
That is true, but at times it seems that their sense of righteous and doing the right thing affects the way CSIS works and could be able to work. As you and everyone else with experience on here knows the world is not a friendly place and there are those who want to do harm to us. So to say that...
Curious to what everyone's opinions were regarding the Canadian Security Intelligence Review Committee (the watch dogs of CSIS).
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/spy-watchers-urge-a-shorter-leash-for-csis/article1774208/page2/
The title of this article is "Spy-watchers urge a...
Qassem Suleimani- the general in charge of the Quds forces seem to be a pretty powerful individual. This article from the telegraph refers to how he has much influence with the current Iraqi government. The article also refers to how Syria is under his operational jurisdiction. This is...
Here is the suspect' profile and picture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14259989
This is terrible to say but at least he is not Muslim, since this community has received a lot of negative attention (justified, unjustified).
It seems that things are improving in South Sudan. They are now a part of the UN. Even though there still seems to be a lot of work to be done, it seems other countries need military aide more than South Sudan ex; Somalia, Nigeria, Chad, and Tanzania. Here is an article from the foreign policy...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14122175.
The paper accuses both sides of inflicting casualties on the civilian population
For those of us who do not know who Boko Haram is, here is some information courtesy of al jazeera...
Here is a documentary about the powerful, radical Islamic groups have in Indonesia. They supposedly have powerful backers in government and/ or military. Hopefully this situation does not get out of control...
Hello,
In Case anyone is interested here is the documentary from Frontline.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/fighting-for-bin-laden/
Two Interesting elements in this documentary. One is the usefulness of afghan counter terrorism pursuit teams. For those of you who may not know, these...
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