: Fourth Generation Warfare — [url] BOYD ON AL QAEDA'S GRAND STRATEGY Col. John Boyd (he died in 1997) is considered one of America's best military thinkers. His thinking dramatically influenced the plan of attack in the first gulf war. Boyd's thinking also serves as a good basis for a deeper understanding 4GW [url] (fourth generation warfare). Grand strategy, according to Boyd, is a quest to isolate your enemy's (a…

: The Essence of Government — [url] "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitable he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread…

Stormulf: The Board... — Oh yeah...the imbed pictures didn't work! So... I'll try to imbed one here in the comments area and see if we can't track the blustery bug down and quash it! Why Aliya! It worked so...what have we learned from this? The imbed was a direct upload, haven't tried urling it from the net just yet but I will...so that's cool. Now I don't feel so blwermy (A word, blwerm, taliesin confounded the ancient…

Douglas: The Yellow Rose of Texas, c. 2008 — Getting the hang o the board sweetcakes! Confederate by choice. Union? What's that? ;) There is NO force on this mudball that can force me to do anything and that's just how I like it. Confederate Yankee in King Arthurs court is an analog. An analogy. ;) I like those tents the Fey weave out of other peoples dreams. The Alfar of old may have gone under ground for awhile but the Siddhe are great at…

Stormulf: nobosh — [url] is a cool place I think you'll like. Go there. That is to say that tasting the pie is better than my description of it. Seems like, since I got Flock Social Browser [url] my web is expanding exponentially. Really, though, I love people communication. I've already got some following over at twitter and that might sound dumb but...twitter is a tool through which I plan to do some extensive…