Response to Houthi piracy

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I wrote during the times of Somali-origin piracy that the patrolling mission was stupid. It was known by collected intelligence that almost all piracy could be traced back to three coastal villages (at some point in time – this may have changed later…

January 14, 2024
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A simplified view on WW2 Eastern Front

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There are occasionally distorting publications that overemphasize certain things or pieces of equipment in conventional warfare, and WW2 in particular. I will try to guide the reader’s thoughts about such subjects to certain essentials.From the Germa…

October 21, 2023
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Littoral modesty

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This is a 2020 paper draft that was IIRC submitted to and rejected by CIMSEC (they published other drafts of mine). I just rediscovered it and don’t remember having it published on D&F (and a quick search didn’t find it, either). In worst case it…

July 8, 2023
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Wagner and SS

.Hitler’s NSDAP party had a paramilitary organisation for bullying, intimidating, ‘security’ at events and plain brawling against communists and social-democrats; it was called the SA.This SA quickly became very important and very powerful in 1933, as …

January 31, 2023
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