War cries: conflict in the country of Georgia chills U.S.-Russian relations.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TBILISI, Georgia -- While the world's attention was focused on China and the athletic "wars" at the Olympic Games this summer, soldiers on the other side of the continent were fighting a real war. President Mikheil Saakashvili of the country of Georgia ordered his troops...

Adolescence: Adolescents' views on war and peace in the early phases of the Iraq conflict.
This study of 209 Catholic school children aged 10-14, whose school is within commuting distance of New York City, took place in October 2003, six months after the commencement of the Iraq War and two years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A...

Wounds of war; Jewish holiday chance to reflect on conflict.
Byline: Bronislaus B. Kush At sunset, Jews around the world will begin their observance of Yom Kippur, a solemn day marked by prayer, fasting, and repentance for misdeeds of the past year. Many will also pause to reflect upon the deep emotional scars inflicted upon...

Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War.
Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War by Michael Petrou. Published by UBC Press. Includes black and white photos, appendix of all the Canadians who fought in the war, notes and an index. ISBN: 978-1-896941-52-3. Paperback: $24.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last February I made a brief...

Information weapons and information warfare: realities and speculations.
Vladimir Ivanovich ORLYANSKIY was born on April 14, 1948, in the village of Divnoye, Stavropol Territory. V.l. Orlyanskiy graduated from Ordzhonikidze Higher General Military Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Yeremenko (1971), Frunze Military Academy (1982), Post-Graduate School (1987) and Doctorate School (1996) of Frunze...

Two Miserable Presidents.
Two Miserable Presidents Steve Sheinkin Roaring Brook Press 33 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003 9781596433205, $19.95, llwohl@aol.com The American Civil War was a huge conflict that is quite well documented in history textbooks. But what was left out?...

War everywhere: rights, national security law, and the law of armed conflict in the age of terror.
INTRODUCTION: AN OUTMODED LEGAL PARADIGM I. BACKGROUND A. The Law of Armed Conflict B. National Security Law C. The Assumption of Clear Boundaries II. CHANGES: GLOBALIZATION AND ASYMMETRICAL THREAT III. THE BREAKDOWN OF BOUNDARIES A. "International" Versus "Internal" Armed Conflicts B. Crime Versus Conflict C. Geographical Boundaries D. War...

"Boxed in" semantic indifference to atrocity.
INTRODUCTION "Silence is the real crime against humanity." (1) In this war-crimes-weary world, the international community appears to be "grading" the result of an atrocity perpetrated by a warlord, general, or head of state in a dark corner of the world where indifference is the operative state....

South Africa's new counter-mercenary law.
ABSTRACT An overview is provided of the new counter-mercenary legislation recently adopted in South Africa, comparing existing legislation and the new Act. Suggestions are made, with reference to international humanitarian law, in respect of the interpretation of terminology and definitions used within the context of the new...

Coastal defense and anti-amphibious landing operations.
Leonid Viktorovich BOYKOV was born in 1952, in Moscow. He finished the Kazan Higher Tank Command School (1973), the M.V. Frunze Military Academy (1984). Boykov served in various command and staff positions in the Moscow, Transbaikal, and Far East Military Districts; last position: chief of a staff...