Source: Trends in Active-Duty Military Deaths Since 2006 (CRS Report)
Showing posts with label Military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Military. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Friday, July 12, 2019
Monday, July 8, 2019
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Random charts - Yemen (war crimes)
Source: The Strategies of the Coalition in the Yemen War: Aerial bombardment and food war (23-pg PDF)
"If one places the damage to the resources of food producers (farmers, herders, and fishers) alongside the targeting of food processing, storage and transport in urban areas and the wider economic war, there is strong evidence that Coalition strategy has aimed to destroy food production and distribution in the areas under the control of Sanʿaʾ. As described above, from the autumn of 2016, economic war has com-pounded physical destruction to create a mass failure in basic livelihoods. Deliberate destruction of family farming and artisanal fishing is a war crime. Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the United Kingdom and France are signatories to the 1977 Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions, which gives the fullest statement in International Humanitarian Law on the protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population.
If the Coalition war in Yemen is not to mark the erasure of legal referent in war, other forces and institutions will need to call into question the blanket ‘legitimacy’ accorded the Coalition to date by the world’s highest legal body, the UN Security Council. If UN Security Council resolution 2417 (24 May 2018), condemning starvation of civilians in wartime, is to be meaningful, then it is necessary for the UNSC and its member states to halt such crimes in Yemen, to investigate them, and to call to account those responsible for perpetrating them."
Monday, February 11, 2019
Random charts - ISIS
Source: Operation Inherent Resolve And Other Overseas Contingency Operations (82-pg PDF, October 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018)
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Powell, for the last time...
A recent article, 'Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the U.N.', deconstructs Powell's United Nations speech in 2003 and demonstrates (were it really necessary) Powell's perfidy. Of course, this was nothing new to anyone who has followed the evolution of Powell's position on this and also on the question of his knowledge and role in torture under the Bush administration!
Previous blog entries concerning Colin Powell:
Follow up - Tweedledum and Tweedledee - February 15th, 2015
Apparent success - October 26th, 2014
Confirmed (Powell and torture) - January 7th, 2014
Great quotes ... - Feb 21, 2011
Random picture - December 22nd, 2010
Powell... Tekel... - April 15th, 2009
And yet... - December 14th, 2008
As expected... - October 20th, 2008
The Powell rehabilitation project? - July 13th, 2008
Did they say that (III) - April 20th, 2008
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Monday, November 14, 2016
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
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