Sorry, when I said I was going to post five links weekly I didn’t realise how amazing my three week holiday would be! So without further ado:

  1. War is Boring‘s David Axe pens an interesting report on one of the worlds lesser known insurgencies and how an emerging economic superpower is struggling to react.
  2. Meanwhile Peace Activists and Isreali Special Forces play dodgems in the East Mediterranean. One wants to break the Gaza Blockade the other wants to stop them at any costs. UPDATE: 10 die in IDF fiasco as they decide to abseil down into a crowd of angry people. Yup, good move lads. – Al Jazeera live blog here.
  3. MIL-BLOGGER FIGHT!
  4. School Violence in China and how it is embarrassing a nation who usually hammers America and its people’s penchant for “going postal.”
  5. The Guardian reports on how archaeology is now a weapon in the war for Jerusalem.