Matthew 24:6
This is a new "trailing thread" on the topic of wars that are ongoing. It's just informational, so to speak.
Quite
frankly, in spite of what we might think, the world has an all time low
inventory of war. War has gone from something of a near human norm to a
freakish but still occurring exception. Indeed, violence in the world
is at an all time low.
But,
wars are still history, still interesting, and still important. So here
we have a thread on a topic written by every commentator on the human
condition,
ever.
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For our opening entry: October 18, 2014
1. The Kurds in Syria have introduced conscription of military aged men
in their zone of control. The conscription is not limited to Kurds.
This has sparked protest by human rights groups, but it shows the extent
to which the Kurds now act as a sovereign more and more every day.
2. Fierce street by street fighting between ISIL and the Kurds continues in Kobane, on the Syrian Turkish border. Analysts are surprised for some reason, counting ISIL's advanced weaponry (some courtesy of the United States, via capture from the pathetic Iraqi Army,), but that discounts the fact that having weponry is one thing, knowing how to use it quite another. The Kurds have a long history of infantry and irregular combat experience, so they're inherited knowledge is pretty vast.
2. Fierce street by street fighting between ISIL and the Kurds continues in Kobane, on the Syrian Turkish border. Analysts are surprised for some reason, counting ISIL's advanced weaponry (some courtesy of the United States, via capture from the pathetic Iraqi Army,), but that discounts the fact that having weponry is one thing, knowing how to use it quite another. The Kurds have a long history of infantry and irregular combat experience, so they're inherited knowledge is pretty vast.
3. The Egyptian air force has hit Islamist targets outside of Benghazi in Libya, which is undergoing a battle pitting a former Libyan general against Islamist forces. This reflects the Egyptian military's understanding that the best interest of that state are found in defeating these extremist groups, of which they have their own.
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October 22, 2014
Canada suffers the second home grown terrorist attack in a week. In the first attack, a convert to Islam drove his car into one in which Canadian soldiers were riding. Today, another convert to Islam killed a soldier standing guard at Canada's memorial to its unknown solders and then entered the parliament building, where he was killed by the Sergeant At Arms, Kevin Vickers, a distinguished retired member of the RCMP..
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