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Dear Readers,

As part of relaunching and restarting the StrategyUnit blog, we’re moving to StrategyUnit to a new home at www.StrategyUnit.net with a new RSS address at http://feeds.feedburner.com/strategyunit. Please update your bookmarks and RSS Reader appropriately.

We’re losing lots of links and traffic by this move, so I would really appreciate it if you update your blogroll and other links appropriately.

Thanks so much and looking forward to contributing again to discussion on Global Security!

Cheers,

StrategyUnit 

StrategyUnit has been out-of-action for the past 2-3 months. New job position, bigger responsibilities and operating a second blog has been taking a toll.

But with events continue to unfold and grow in importance, StrategyUnit will be returning albeit at a far lighter schedule, maybe 2-3 articles a month.

Looking forward to jumping back into discussions on global security!

Cheers!

Happy July 4th Everyone

Your July 4th History Lesson of the Day: While this picture is often depicted as the signing of the declaration, it actually the drafting of the document. But alas, this picture by Trumbull, as a depicting the declaration, is now a tradition of sorts regardless of what it actually is. Read more here.

Hello Everyone, between training a new guy in the office and moving…my time for posting on StrategyUnit will be severely limited. Plus, AT&T cant give me my DSL until March 25 or so! Crazy.

If anyone would like to guest blog on my site, send me articles, tips, etc to post. Let me know and post a comment below.

Cheers,

StrategyUnit

Hello Everyone,

For my day job, I am an Internet marketer, so I happen upon lots of interesting Internet-related technologies all the time. One of them is 3Bubbles, a way to integrate live chat to every blog and web site. As one of the early beta testers, I’ve enabled chatting on all postings. I know I dont generate enough traffic to really take advantage of this new technology, but I cant help but give it a try.

Cheers,

StrategyUnit

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to thank everyone who has visited StrategyUnit and to those that have posted invaluable comments as well. StrategyUnit has only been online for only four months, but has attained decent visitor numbers and some recognition from greats like Zenpundit to Instapundit.

I would like to state that if anyone feels they share the same interests, scope and focus as StrategyUnit is welcome to solicit potential articles. I both wish to expand StrategyUnit capacity to produce relevant articles and also lighten my personal blogging burden. With a full time 9-7 job in a fast-paced industry, its quite the effort to maintain this blog.

Cheers

StrategyUnit will be back sometime later…nothing major until after the New Year.

Happy Holidays and Have a Happy New Year

It is on this day that the Great War (World War I) ended and so everyone thought all wars would come to an end. And, it is for this day we commemorate Veteran’s Day.

But, unfortunately, wars are still being fought…and now we are fighting in the Global War on Terrorism (Or the “Long War” as Ginrich calls it) and the War in Iraq.

While remembering those who have fought for America for generations past, don’t forget those who continue to serve this country today.

Check out Winds of Change to see how you can Support the Troops!

Winds of Change provides a list of charities and organizations that you can support to, to Support the our Troops. Please check it out and donate what you can.

My blogging has been on a very light schedule as I’ve got the cold. Its days like these I wish there some fellow contributors for this blog. That said, Here’s a list of what I think should be required reading for this weekend:

Tdaxp – a New Blog (new to me)
This is a new blog by a guy named Dan. Great blog with interesting, analytical and unique perspective on a host of issues. Just keep on scrolling.

Especially interesting to me are:

• The Future That Might Have Been
• The Failure of Global Guerrillaism: Democracies Withstand Economic Pain (Disclosure: I posted on the thread on Global Guerillas, 4GW v. 3GW)
• Speaker Hastert Attacks Oil Company Record Profits (Blog Network Attacks)

Hello Saudi Arabia, Hello Oil Peak!
Here’s something I found at NYT that is not receiving enough attention, but is discussed at the Oil Drum:

“a senior intelligence official, who insisted on remaining anonymous because he was not permitted to speak publicly on the issue, said that the Saudi plans to increase production by nearly 14 percent in the next four years were not enough to meet global demand. Even the Energy Information Administration recently scaled back its expectations of how much more oil the Saudis could pump in 20 years.”

Check out The Oil Drum’s coverage here. The Oil Drum also covers other news over doubts of Saudi Arabia’s Aramco on how much reserve and capacity remains in Saudi Arabia.

China is an Unstoppable Graduate Student Factory (or not?)
In “Anoint no economic superpower before its time”, Daniel Drezner has a very good roundup putting some doubt on the opinion that China’s is churning out far more and better engineering students than the US - helping lifting China to superpower level and eventually surpassing the U.S. and the West.

Daniel Drezner’s posting is a great follow-up to my previous post, “China the Roaring Economy - Or Maybe Not “, which points to some doubts on China’s consistently astronomical GDP growth figures.

Rosa Parks helped spark the flame that ignited the Civil Rights Movement.

The Washington Post looks - in memoriam

It looks like Thomas Barnett’ s publisher is in full PR swing in anticipatian of his new book, “Blueprint for Action : A Future Worth Creating“.

I’ve mentioned Barnett in several of my papers and a posting here regarding “Open Source Warfare“.

Check out the United Press Article, with the humble title Military theory superstar unveils new book:

[Barnett] advocated re-structuring the military into two forces. The first, “leviathan,” would include the military’s nuclear arsenal and traditional war-fighting elements, and would be aimed at deterring other nations, as well as providing the capacity to rapidly intervene to change, shore-up or eliminate unstable regimes.

The second, more numerous, “systems administrator” force, would be focused on the post-war phase of such interventions — on counter-insurgency and nation-building.

In his new book, Barnett offers a detailed plan for putting his ideas into action, including a six-point program for transforming politically bankrupt states. “Bad states go in, better states come out,” he writes.

Welcome to Strategy Unit.

While there are many blogs covering the global issue of terrorism, I started this blog to attempt to deepen the discussion of international and domestic affairs beyond terrorism to the host of global, regional and domestic issues that effect in/directly issues of security. Indeed, the dimensions of a sovereign nation’s security are many: economic, resources, information (media, flow of information), defense, technological, cultural and so on. More humbly, this blog will help facilitate my own research and interests in this area.

As I follow the maxim “blog what you know about”, regionally this blog will mainly focus on the United States, Europe, the Former-Soviet Space and Southeast Asia.

Cheers!

DJPR