December 2008
The Archives
-
Bandhs, Pakistan
Pakistan: Supply Chain Bandh
Note that it was the sustained nature of these attacks that has now effectively disrupted the Afghani supply chain as the workers took account of the cost vs. the benefits of proceeding and did not like the yield: Mohammad Shakir Afridi, president of the Khyber Transport Association, in the northwestern city of Peshawar said: “We [...]
-
Black Globalization, Pakistan, Unbridled Chaos
Unbridled Chaos: Shutting Down Eastern Pakistan
12.11.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsWhat’s left of the Pakistani state has grossly misjudged the right trajectory forward, as described in my brief on Pakistan dismantling the LeT – In short, Pakistan needs to coopt the state building capacity of JuD without alienating the hierarchy that provides the social services while at the same time kililng their connectivity to other [...]
-
Media, Mumbai
Radio: Roundtable
Former CIA case officer Larry Johnson, the Long War Journal’s Bill Roggio, Vanity Fair’s Craig Unger and myself were on a roundtable on John Batchelor’s show. It begins at the 20 minute mark. We discussed Pakistan in some depth, as well as the gaming of foreign policy. Bookmark It
-
Infrastructure Systems, Pakistan
Supple Chains Through Pakistan
A large percentage of critical supplies, fuel, and equipment travel through the mountains of the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan before reaching coalition troops. This has been a problematic arrangement as the very rugged terrain provides excellent cover for Taliban and independent entrepreneurs to attack, destroy, and steal from the convoys. Exploiting the inability [...]
-
Pakistan
Dismantling Lashkar-E-Taiba
Pakistan has arrested the operational leader of the organization, charged with directly organizing, leading, and supporting the Mumbai overrun. However, Haifz Mohammed Saeed, the key founding architect of the organization is being left untouched since he has, for all appearances sake, moved on to run its social services arm – Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Pakistan is attempting to [...]
-
Black Globalization, Mumbai
‘Black Friday’ and Black Globalization
Dawood Ibrahim presents as much of a threat to India as he does to Pakistan. In India, Dawood has a historical record of fracturing the state along religious fault lines. In 1993, in response to the dismantling of a major piece of Muslim religious infrastructure, the Babri Masjid, Muslim and Hindu hardliners sparked riots all [...]
-
Mumbai
Additional Footage
Captured on the Taj Palace Hotel’s CCTV system. Click here for the video. Bookmark It
-
Governance, Mumbai
Disinformation: Gaming Foreign Policy
Lone actors can game the entire foreign policy establishment by tapping into traditional foreign policy networks and spreading disinformation: Nuclear-armed Pakistan put its forces on high alert after a hoax caller pretending to be India’s foreign minister spoke to President Asif Ali Zardari in a threatening manner on November 28, two days after the militant [...]
-
Mumbai, Resiliency, Security Establishment
Collaborative Private Security
12.05.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAccording to the major private security providers in India, there has been a massive spike in terms of customers looking to add security, upgrade their in-place systems, or learn more about the process. This is largely due to governmen ordering public locations to increase security directly after the Mumbai attacks. Most locations are looking to buy the bare minimum to [...]
-
Mumbai
Tactical Fear Management
‘As the guests tried to rush into the kitchen, one terrorist burst into the restaurant and began to shoot anyone that remained in the restaurant. At this point my father was in the kitchen and, along with his two friends, rushed to the fire exit. ‘They had barely descended a few steps when they were [...]
India’s Naxalite Rage
Shlok Vaidya analyzes the far-flung implications of a shifting Indian security environment with a focus on the globally-connected Naxalite insurgency.recent entries
- Firing Los Federales
- Estimated Cost per Naxal? ~$5,000
- Indicator: Madhya Pradesh’s Missing Explosives Convoy
- The Business of Terrorism
- India’s Hidden Innovation Engine and its $35 Tablet
recent comments
- Shlok Vaidya: Hmm. I’ll check my huge backlog of files to see if I can pull anything up. I had read a couple...
- Eric Randolph: I very much agree with this view, reliant as the Naxals are on the willing participation of...
- neil: Atleast they are helping the poor people God will bless them, were in india all politicians making money.
- siman: Dear Friends, Please Share your basic view regarding the naxlite increasing in india,bcoz we all know the...
- Zuo Qing: Thanks. It wasn’t really apparent in the article itself.