And its not good news for us. Robb points to Gen. David H. Petraeus attempt to build a team that will be able to come up with a winning strategy for our wars in the Middle East. Robb points out that Gen. Petraeus will be relying on input from Australian Army. Lt. Col. David Kilcullen who holds a PhD in anthropology and is author of “Twenty-Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Company-Level Counterinsurgency” Military Review, May – June 2006. Robb then connects to a paper by Fabius Maximus, published on DNI.net (Defense and the National Interest) that reviews Kilcullens’ ideas and concludes the article provides four powerful insights:

1. 4GW’s (and insurgencies in general) are easiest to defeat at home.
2. Do not look to wars won by the locals for lessons how we can win when fighting in foreign lands.
3. That we avoid foreign wars, except when we only assist local forces – a different approach from that attributed to Kilcullen. As Germany learned in WWII and we are learning in Iraq, excellence in tactics and personnel cannot overcome a fundamentally flawed strategy.
4. Kilcullen describes how to win a 4GW when fighting on one’s home ground. Although greatly advancing 4GW theory, it does not help us win in Iraq and Afghanistan

Scientists have created a tiny motor powered by light that makes possible the type of device first imaginged by visionary Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867.

“A nanomachine is an incredibly tiny device whose parts consist of single molecules. Nature uses nanomachines for everything from photosynthesis to moving muscles in the body and transferring information through cells.

Scientists are trying to unravel the secrets of nanomachines and nanotechnology, which works on a tiny scale. One nanometer is a billionth of a meter, or about 80,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair.”

Source: CNN.com

Glenn Greenwald on the claim by the conservative movement that they are “actually the prime victim here, because its lofty “principles” have been betrayed and repudiated by the President and the Congress which have ruled our country for the last six years.”
Source:  Unclaimed Territory