Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
The Altantic Monthly publishes a terrifyingly insightful article about Pakistan’s nuclear shell game. According to it, what keeps the Pakistani leaders up at night is a highly unlikely US air strike, not a predictable (by past incidents) Jihadi suicide rush on the…
Are we on the verge of bringing forecasting of meteorological precision to military and counter-terrorism operations ? Wired Magazine speculates: In a paper published last week in Science, researchers present an equation to describe how fatal attacks escalate – whether it’s a…
Congo River Image by mpondu via Flickr Great NPR story on the only reasonable and cheap means of transportation in Congo: a river barge that resembles Noah’s Ark. The nearly 3,000-mile Congo River is the backbone of one of Africa’s poorest and…
Mosul image via Wikipedia The Iraq War, now in it’s sixth year, has produced its own literature. Brian Turner was focused on staying alive, not poetry, when he served as an infantry team leader in Iraq. But he quickly saw that his…