Very interesting and I think important. Something that should be done for any Armee even.
I found the writing style … interesting. The author assumed we the reader would have a specific understanding how to model this data. And that they cracked the code. Well that military posts, commands and in some cases government loyalty can change is known. Maybe I read too much into it this morning :). I dislike being treated as ignorant that’s all.
Sounds a fantastic idea and a great addition to OSSINT overall
> making it easier for journalists, courts, and researchers to connect commanders to their subordinates’ actions.
We all know that G.W. Bush and Tony Blair were at the top of their countries' chains of command during the illegal invasion of Iraq and yet, here we are, they're free of any International Penal Court meddling. Which is to say that maybe these guys and ladies here should focus their "desire for war-justice" a little bit closer to home.
Of course, an organization (the Security Force Monitor mentioned in the article) that literally receives money from George Soros through his Open Society Foundations [1] would never go after its own Western leaders, but it's good to at least have that written down on the internet, like in this comment.
When we found out that soldiers in Iraq were mistreating prisoners we put them all on trial and gave the guy who said this wasn't right a medal. What the Burmese military does to maintain its sixty year old dictatorship is wanton murder of civilians.
And then we did this.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallag...
> When we found out that soldiers in Iraq were mistreating prisoners
We didn't "find out", some media and/or Wikileaks got evidence. And the consequences were not even close to harsh enough - each and every instance of war crimes should have led to a thorough cleanup and massive sentences for everyone involved, especially for everyone who tried to cover it up.
There is a reason Russian forces are wearing face-covers in Ukraine. That anonymity even became integral part of the official propaganda with the country plastered with images with covered faces like this https://ok.ru/group/53906516017252/album/922573735012/931001...
Amusingly, the slogan on the right hand side says: "we don't start wars, we finish them".
War is peace, peace is war.
There are some exceptions for the first part like current war in Ukraine or WW2.
Why is that guy breaking trigger discipline on a propaganda poster?
Trigger discipline is a decadent Western concept.
All the pictures of Taliban fighters that I saw after they took over in Afghanistan have good trigger discipline.
He isnt posing for a poster. That image appears cut from something else.
> Together, we re–developed the data format and domain logic to fit both the ergonomics of existing research tools and to allow for easy analysis.
That is some weapons grade marketing speak.
The rest of the article is relatively interesting once they get to their use of Datomic/Datalog but it was really hard to get past that BS.