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Hitching a lift on a US aircraft carrier
The Super Hornet bombers that dropped 8 500-pound JDAM bombs on Islamic State forces in Iraq had flown from the aircraft carrier USS George H W Bush, afloat in the Persian Gulf. It is one among at least 5 Navy ships and 3 ships … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East, militaries, readings, ships, war
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A love story far from the sea
This beautiful little love story has some extraordinary bits about the Syrian revolution, the subsequent civil war(s), love, families, sectarian sentiments, and the sea: On the second day of Ramadan, I come home from work to find Jesus, Maalik, and … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East, ports, readings, seafaring, the sea, war
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“…for rivers and seas are not to be regarded as disjoining, but as uniting”
From Hegel through Schmitt to Foucault and onwards, there is a way of thinking about sea and land not as inert backdrop but as factors determining politics, history and the transformation of the world. Hegel’s The Philosophy of History is geographically deterministic … Continue reading
Posted in empire, imperialism & colonialism, militaries, ports, readings, seafaring, the sea, war
Tagged Carl Schmitt, Foucault, Hegel, Mahan
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“war, commerce, and transit”
“Let us have the courage to be crude: let us sweep the spirit of subtlety down the sewer along with the flags and the great warriors.” Paul Nizan Paul Nizan’s star burned bright and brief. He was a classmate of Jean-Paul Sartre‘s … Continue reading
Posted in empire, imperialism & colonialism, literature, Middle East, ports, readings, ships, war
Tagged Aden, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Nizan
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Muslim Pirates
Pirate Utopias is a strange little book – at once a bit disappointing and a portal to further discovery. The concept behind it is fabulous enough (about which more below) and the blurbs on the back -by Christopher Hill, Marcus … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East, piracy, ships, the sea, war
Tagged North Africa, Peter Lamborn Wilson
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“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges…”
From Melville’s Billy Budd: …war contractors, whose gains, honest or otherwise, are in every land an anticipated portion of the harvest of death…. And he is the inventor of “fog of war” too: Forty years after a battle it is … Continue reading
Posted in literature, logistics, Melville, militaries, quotations, readings, ships, the sublime, war
Tagged Billy Budd, Contractors
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The Gamming 