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[mlknchz]

I want to wish the happiest birthday possible to the incredibly bodacious Lisa, aka wickedsin


I owe you a birthday spanking :)


and also, THIS;
http://download.yousendit.com/0767C8EE2091BBA7

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[rfd.livejournal.com]

Ziad sez Rubicon sounds good!!!! I'll call you in the morning?

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

yez

[wickedsin.livejournal.com]

HAWT!

Thanks hon!

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I hope you had a great day

[wickedsin.livejournal.com]

I did, thank you!

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

I don't know what's up with LJ. As best as I can recall my recs were;

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom - Lawrence
A Book of Five Rings - Musashi
The Influence of Sea Power on History - Mahan
The River War - Churchill
My Reminiscences of East Africa - von Lettow-Vorbeck

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

Lettow-Vorbeck was a fascinating character. Most histories of WWI fail to mention his East African campaign.
There is a good account of it in Byron Farwells' "The Great War in Africa".

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

I haven’t heard anyone deal with terrorism as a military problem either. But I understand why most nations want to shy away from treating terrorism as a military problem; the reasoning for that is two-fold. First, by dealing with this as a criminal rather than a military matter, nations allow themselves to use a greater range of counter-terrorist weapons, including, but not limited to, the military. Secondly, there is an understandable reluctance to grant terrorists the status of soldiers, with all of the concomitant restrictions that status would place on counter-terrorist activities. Soldiers are subject to treatment under the well-defined rules of the Geneva Convention, terrorists are not.
Terrorism is much more closely analogous to piracy than to privateering. There are no legal letters of marque granted, except by inference; that inference is generally not considered a reasonable causus belli, but by its nature more of a diplomatic than a military question. It is impossible for any nation to consider terrorists de facto irregular armed forced of either the country from which the terrorists were based or of their nationality (which in any given terrorists cell will probably not be any single nation).
Pre-emptive military strikes against suspected terrorist bases become problematic due to reluctance or inability to strike into the territory of what may be friendly powers. Operational security often prohibits the sharing of intelligence before such a strike, leaving the possibility that the strike will be construed as an act of war. Even punitive strikes AFTER a terrorist attack are subject to these same problems as do covert small-unit tactics.
All of these factors make viewing terrorism as a criminal activity much more palatable to governments.