At the end of last week I was asked to write pieces on the developing hunt for Colonel Moammar Qaddafi for the Guardian (UK) and Foreign Policy.com, and wasn't able to link to them before Hurricane Irene crashed our internet/cable in Northern Virginia. (Whether this was due to the storm or the general unreliableness of Cox Cable, I'm not certain).
Anyways, from Friday/Saturday's Guardian, why bounties usually don't lead to success in strategic manhunts.
And from the current Foreign Policy.com, what history suggests will be the keys for the NTC in finding Qaddafi.
Also, I've been asked to contribute some guest columns to a cool little military history website, Command Posts.com. This weekend they published two pieces by me:
- First, they published an excerpt from Wanted Dead or Alive to mark the anniversary of Task Force Ranger arriving in Mogadishu (the subject of Saturday's "Today in Manhunting History").
- Additionally, they published an essay on why the death of 22 Navy SEALs earlier this month (or the 19 SOF killed in Operation Red Wing in June 2005) hasn't had the same strategic effect as the 18 SOF killed in October 1993 in Mogadishu.
UPDATE: I've gone ahead and republished the essays on their date of publication below. Given that they were actually published on those dates, I assume this doesn't violate any sort of blogging code of ethics.
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