Abdullatif AL-Mannai[William S.The peacetime soldier’s principal task is to prepare effectively for the next war. In order to do so, he must anticipate what the next war…14 min read·Jul 27, 2016----
Abdullatif AL-Mannai[Dagless Kangero] Black Lives Matter and Identity Politics: The relevance of social tensions in the…Martin Luther King once spoke the words, “None of us are free until all of us are free”. The personal is political, and the transcending…6 min read·Jul 26, 2016----
Abdullatif AL-Mannai[William S. Lind] Understanding Fourth Generation WarRather than commenting on the specifics of the war with Iraq, I thought it might be a good time to lay out a framework for understanding…13 min read·Jul 26, 2016----
Abdullatif AL-MannaiFourth and Fifth Generation Warfare Arrives on European and Middle Eastern Battlefields: WAYNE…The U.S., British, Canadian and other Western military training of Ukrainian forces that include neo-Nazi gangsters from Ukraine and other…6 min read·Jul 9, 2016----
Abdullatif AL-MannaiRadical Islam and LNG in Trinidad and Tobago BY MARITIMER · 15TH NOVEMBER 2014Over the past several years, maritime attacks have become more violent, more frequent and clearly more organized. It is believed that…1 min read·Jul 9, 2016----
Abdullatif AL-Mannai[Candyce Kelshall and Nazli Melis Bulut] The fifth generation force multiplier.The Dallas police attacks have shaken not only police forces around the world but also our understanding of what dramatic change is…7 min read·Jul 9, 2016----
Abdullatif AL-MannaiDealing with transnational hybrid terrorist threats Posted on 19 February 2015 by Candyce Kelshall1) Consider stepping outside the Realist perspective of the problem. This is difficult because we are dealing with ‘an enemy’ whose…2 min read·Jul 9, 2016----
Abdullatif AL-MannaiThrowing stones at drones: The international system and terrorism BY MARITIMER · 10TH FEBRUARY 2015Let’s consider the possibility that the terrorist is the drone, and the man on the hill, a state in the International system, rooted to the…2 min read·Jul 9, 2016----
Abdullatif AL-Mannai[Aminatu Aliyu] Al-Shabab: not just a Somali issueThe founder of Boko Haram is Mohammed Yussuf .Yussuf was a trained Salafist. He follows the fundamentalist teachings of a 14 C cleric…2 min read·Jul 9, 2016----
Abdullatif AL-MannaiSpontaneous Violent Extremism (SVE): Nothing could be further from the truth BY MARITIMER · 7TH…There has been an alarmingly long list of recent knife attacks by individuals described as spontaneous violent extremists who ascribe ISIS…2 min read·Jul 9, 2016----