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... to, and only for periods that caused inconvenience, not an emergency.  People would have complained to the government but ... (but strangely not the Ministry of Health) were proving unreliable.  Even the state run media apparatus seemed to be ... as rational as Israel and probably more rational than Pakistan. In a different universe, a deal could be made. In this one, ...

Blog post - Mar 5 2012 - 8:46pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... Essentially, excess or abundant freshwater is pumped into an aquifer, stored, and recovered when needed using the same pump.  ... 85% of the residents farm for a living.  Due to unreliable patterns of rainfall, 85% percent of Afghanistan’s agriculture ...

Journal Article - May 25 2012 - 5:53am - 1 comment

... analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak out on an issue of grave importance to Small Wars Journal readers. We, as a ... that the information produced by torture is notoriously unreliable. Furthermore, with the certainty that torture will be applied, ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... oil fields, the onset of work is not on the horizon and an IRGC-associated firm has reportedly been picking up the slack. I also ... Some of the ones justifying the author's thesis are either unreliable or heavily biased. Re: A Sino-Persian Grab for the Indian Ocean? ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 4:29pm - 6 comments

... in support of a mission that is not succeeding and behind an array of more than seven years of optimistic statements by U.S. senior ... the line that most rank-and-file ANP or ANSF are at best unreliable and at worst a severe liability. If different people from different ...

Blog post - Feb 6 2012 - 8:04am - 15 comments - 0 attachments

... about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War An Interview with Colonel Gian Gentile by Octavian Manea ... support our troops and the growing (albeit often AWOL or unreliable) Afghan security forces, the more tolls are paid to the trolls ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 8:37pm - 83 comments

... Editor's Note:  Sergio Miller offers an important look at armed nation building in Vietnam and Afghanistan, with a ... grew unsustainably large and dependent armed forces and an unreliable police force; and all of this cost almost 60,000 American lives and ...

Journal Article - Feb 27 2012 - 5:57am - 8 comments

... they could revolutionise the situation in Afghanistan. An independent and authoritative study is urgently needed to establish the ... allow us to dictate activities to them) - is at best an unreliable method to fight the war. So we can try to draw lessons from ...

Journal Article - Mar 4 2010 - 4:31am - 33 comments

... presented new evidence showing that Iran is working on an implosion-type nuclear bomb design and is attempting to miniaturize this ... the IAEA during the previous head's tenure and considered unreliable. However there is a constant in all of this: the IAEA continues ...

Blog post - Nov 11 2011 - 6:15pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments