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Europe’s big problem is that Breivik is not the alpha or omega of terrorism...
In Norway the trial of Anders Breivik who killed 77 people last summer has begun. Over the last couple of days he has been giving testimony in his defence arguing that he was acting for the good with a...
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Danger On The High (PM)C’s
A piece last week on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today Programme’* on a critical development in military affairs was broadcast as if it were a mere curiosity. In it, Typhon founder and CEO Anthony Sharp discussed...
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‘Muslim Patrol’ as provocation strategy?
Many of our UK-based readers will be familiar with the so-called Muslim Patrol videos posted online earlier this month. The videos feature some young Londoners, presumably Muslim, approaching and...
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Casus Chaos or Belli?
So, urban mayhem has been on my mind lately. I’ve been reading up on the 2011 riots here in London and across the UK, particularly the official, service and government reviews. Coming from the...
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Implying War
I owe the Faceless Bureaucrat my thanks for blazing the trail on the topic of what constitutes a state of war. (1) Is Kings of War on something of an existential trip? I am not at all certain I am...
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Military History and the London Riots
In general I deplore attempts to make parallels to war; let’s be clear at the outset, I am quite certain that neither [American] football nor business are “just like” it. However, in the case of the...
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The Hermès Insurgent: Camouflage and Culture in War
Concerns over the potential for disorder, as well as the regular requirements for such events had the MPS out in force on Wednesday for Margaret Thatcher’s funeral. Should I feel guilty that I...
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The Boston Bombings and the Gamification of the News
All screenshots are of reddit’s Boston Update threads from the night of April 19/20, 2013 ‘Gamification’, apparently, has been a key Silicon Valley buzzword for several years without fully breaking...
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The Ghraib Escape
Prisoner of War escapes have been in the news quite a bit over the last week or so. First up, hundred of inmates escaped from the infamous Abu Ghraib jail, including (apparently) lots of senior...
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The Arab Spring: The graveyard of terrorism
Eugenio Lilli, PhD Candidate, Defence Studies Department, King’s College London and Chair of the KCL US foreign policy research group. Follow me on Twitter @EugenioLilli and on webagora.wordpress.com...
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