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Name: Irregular Forces

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

European Union

EU border security mission announced, as UNSMIL helps define the challenges

: The European Union has signed off on a €30 million mission to help Libya improve its troubled and disorganised border security.The project, to be known as the EU Integrated Border Management Assistance Mission (EUBAM), was been worked up with the government ... [Published Libya Herald - 18 hours ago]

Entities: UNSMIL UN Assistance Mission in Libya, Security, European Union, Libya, BORDER MANAGEMENT INC

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Government of Syria

Syrian govt advances signal Assad may survive for years

In recent weeks, the opposition has lost Otaibah to the east of Damascus, the southern town of Sanamein and Aziza near Aleppo in the northCaroline AlexanderA file photo of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Photo: AFPAlso ReadLondon: Syria’s President ... [Published Livemint.com - May 23 2013]

Entities: Syria, Damascus, David Hartwell, Caroline Alexander, Government of Syria

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

International Institute For Strategic Studies

Syrian Army Advances Signal Assad May Survive for Years

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, whose government was last year described as close to collapse by groups ranging from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to the armed opposition, may remain in power for years to come.“The regime is still in place, ... [Published Bloomberg - May 22 2013]

Entities: International Institute For Strategic Studies, Syrian Arab Army, Syria

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Hizballah

Hizbullah: From ‘mentoring’ to ‘direct combat’ near Jordan, Lebanon borders

NICOSIA — The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has poured in hundreds oftroops in heavy fighting in southern Syria.Opposition sources said Hizbullah has sent up to 1,000 fighters to jointhe Syrian Army in its offensive in southern Syria. They said Hizbull ... [Published World Tribune - May 20 2013]

Entities: Hizballah, Lebanon, Jordan, Syrian Arab Army

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Yugoslav Army Units "Commended" Serb Paramilitaries

Expert witness says military “tolerated” excesses by irregular forces. A military expert testified this week about the rise of Serb nationalist paramilitary units in the former Yugoslavia as the region descended into war in the early 1990s. Progra ... [Published IWPR Top Stories - May 10 2013]

Entities: Irregular Forces, Expert Witness, Military/Armed Forces

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Hamid Karzai

After Airstrike, Afghan Points to C.I.A. and Secret Militias

KABUL, Afghanistan The spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that the C.I.A. was responsible for calling in an airstrike on April 7 that left 17 Afghan civilians dead, 12 of them children, and that the secret Afghan militias that the agency ... [Published New York Times - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Hamid Karzai, Irregular Forces, National Directorate of Security, Thomas Collins

First reported Mar 20 2013 - Updated Mar 21 2013 - 2 reports

US Navy

Soccer, the Suez, and Irregular Sea Denial

I’m back from a little vacation in the Sahel… Sea denial might be described as the obverse of sea control, where a weaker force is able to achieve an operational objective at sea by thwarting a superior fleet, even if only for a short duration. History ... [Published MaritimeSecurity.Asia - Mar 21 2013]

Entities: Port Said, US Navy, Amplifier, Protesters

First reported Feb 20 2013 - Updated Feb 20 2013 - 1 reports

The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: The Culmination of the Southern Campaign

By: George A. Barbee Through the use of conventional and irregular forces, Gen Nathaniel Greene brought Cornwallis' forces to a culminating point and precipitated the surrender at Yorktown. ... [Published SWJ Blog - Feb 20 2013]

Entities: Culminating Point, Irregular Forces, Precipitate

First reported Dec 20 2012 - Updated Dec 20 2012 - 1 reports

Outside View: Ticking time bombs

To most observers, irrespective of "sequestration" that would remove an additional $500 billion from defense spending over the next decade, the most dangerous of ticking time bombs at the Pentagon is budgetary.The impact of any financial contraction will ... [Published Space Daily - Dec 20 2012]

Entities: United States, Ethical, Bombing, Flag Officer

Quotes

...As the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder wrote at the time, the documents contain "incredibly awful reports of systematized detainee abuse by Iraqi soldiers and security forces right under the noses of the American-led coalition, which appears to have had virtually no incentive to put a stop to them" (as usual, these documents were classified not to safeguard US nationalnational security but rather to conceal bad and embarrassing acts on the part...

Is the US maintaining death squads and torture militias in Afghanistan? | Glenn Greenwald [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 26 2013]

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EU border security mission announced, as UNSMIL... [Published Libya Herald - 18 hours ago]
Syrian govt advances signal Assad may survive f... [Published Livemint.com - May 23 2013]
Syrian Army Advances Signal Assad May Survive f... [Published Bloomberg - May 22 2013]
Hizbullah: From ‘mentoring’ to ‘direct combat’ ... [Published World Tribune - May 20 2013]
WARPLANES: Much Delayed Apaches For South Korea [Published Strategy Page - May 12 2013]
Yugoslav Army Units "Commended" Serb Paramilita... [Published IWPR Top Stories - May 10 2013]
Germany's Bold New Counterinsurgency Ideas [Published Philadelphia Trumpet - May 05 2013]
Why the U.S. Army Needs Missiles [Published World Affairs Board - Apr 29 2013]
After Airstrike, Afghan Points to C.I.A. and Se... [Published New York Times - Apr 19 2013]
The Civil War – Grierson’s Raid begins with 170... [Published The Choctaw Plaindealer - Apr 19 2013]
Soccer, the Suez, and Irregular Sea Denial [Published MaritimeSecurity.Asia - Mar 21 2013]
Soccer, the Suez, and Irregular Sea Denial [Published Information Dissemination - Mar 20 2013]
Sudan: Ten Years Later, Why Is Darfur Still in ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Mar 07 2013]
Karzai’s Ban on US Special Forces: Is It a Resp... [Published Firedoglake - Feb 26 2013]
Is the US maintaining death squads and torture ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 26 2013]
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: The Culminat... [Published SWJ Blog - Feb 20 2013]
Syria, weapons vs politics [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Dec 28 2012]
Outside View: Ticking time bombs [Published Space Daily - Dec 20 2012]
Army Rethinks Unconventional Warfare [Published Secrecy News - Nov 12 2008]

Blogs

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Yugoslav Army Units "Commended" Serb Paramilita... [Published IWPR Top Stories - May 10 2013] Expert witness says military “tolerated” excesses by irregular forces. A military expert testified this week about the rise of Serb nationalist paramilitary units in the former Yugoslavia as the region descended into war in the early 1990s. Progra ...
Soccer, the Suez, and Irregular Sea Denial [Published MaritimeSecurity.Asia - Mar 21 2013] I’m back from a little vacation in the Sahel… Sea denial might be described as the obverse of sea control, where a weaker force is able to achieve an operational objective at sea by thwarting a superior fleet, even if only for a short duration. History ...
Soccer, the Suez, and Irregular Sea Denial [Published Information Dissemination - Mar 20 2013] I'm back from a little vacation in the Sahel...Sea denial might be described as the obverse of sea control, where a weaker force is able to achieve an operational objective at sea by thwarting a superior fleet, even if only for a short duration. History ...
Karzai’s Ban on US Special Forces: Is It a Resp... [Published Firedoglake - Feb 26 2013] Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai ordered United States special forces to leave the Maidan Wardak province after reports of units engaging in the torture and disappearing of Afghan civilians.The order came on February 24 and was immediately followed ...
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: The Culminat... [Published SWJ Blog - Feb 20 2013] By: George A. Barbee Through the use of conventional and irregular forces, Gen Nathaniel Greene brought Cornwallis' forces to a culminating point and precipitated the surrender at Yorktown. ...