Author: Courtney Messerschmidt

A junior studying journalism, military history and political science, Courtney was named one of 2010's "20 Hottest Women in New Media." She also created the infamous diplomatic, military and intelligence analysis site Great Satan's Girlfriend. Her expertise includes interventions, COIN, strategic uses of American power, global democracy promotion, authoritarian marginalization, gender apartheid, international relations theory and terrorism.

Jank Times

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Jank – verbish kinda noun roughly xlated as bad, no account, suckish, worthless. Not unlike being trapped with elderly ancients whining and pining about how the country is on a highway to hello.: :  Zooming in on Great Satan haters in the Internat’l Community of jerks, creeps and tyrants reads like a fun to be with […]

 

Military Strategy l’Morte?

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Strategy! “The comprehensive way to try to pursue political ends, including the threat or actual use of force” Perhaps the only thing better than belly shots or strategy in general – is military strategy in particular. The 2011 Nat’l Military Strategy has been unleashed (pdf) and it ain’t all that. Teufel Hunden’s Warcraft Academy academic […]

 

Persia’s Pres And The Supreme Leader

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Vilayat-e Faqih!: : Aside from solid solidarity on breaking the world’s record for public executions in a years time,:  unsolid solidarity signals are blasting out of Gay Free Persia’s hot gossip, sweet deets and judicious jank ’bout divy’ing divisions at the highest levels of Preacher Command are off the hook! See, the battle over the Persian Version […]

 

Would Ottomans Do Syria?

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Janissaries! Since the traditional despot remedial activity in Syria seems to be an endless sexercise in futility (aren’t they all? Why even tolerate their existence?) and a destabilizing factor in regional stability  – What if – the Ottomans decided to do Syria? GsGf’s Ottomanic expert Dr Soner ÇaÄŸaptay (Oh! He got game bay bee!) shares […]

 

Prokhorovka!

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“It. Must. Not. Fail” Elefants, Tigers and Panthers, oh my! By spring time 1943 das Dritten Reiches was in a hexen kessel of scary dimensions. In the last year Great Satan and Great Britain had driven the vaunted Afrika Korps into extinction, sortee’d several “Thousand Bomber Raids” that carpetly xformed ancient Deutsch cities into flaming […]

 

Info Age Arms Race

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Information is intell and intell is power. Thus – unlimited info = unlimited power! Oh, you know this is so. The very same cat that enabled two of Great Satan’s hyperpuissant fans to unleash “Shi Lang” upon a world worried about Collectivist China’s not so Peaceful Looking Rise – returns to continue to put steel […]

 

“Killing To Control”

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Bloody L! Congrats to W. F. Owen – long time British Army Theorist, Little Satan fan and GsGf’s  asymmetrical warfare counselor – scored a significant coup with publication in the latest issue of British Army Review (PDF available here and at Small Wars Journal)  with the delightfully crunk deadly ditty: “Killing Your Way To Control” […]

 

Self Deception?

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“All warfare is based upon deception” as China’s ancient Warcraft master taught, and like vClausewitz  (or maybe it was Batman) once sagely saged – self deception is the worst deception of all. Daemoneoconically delish Foundation For Defense of Democrazies President Clifford May (Oh! He got game bay bee!) points out 5 deceits – self imposed […]

 

Syrian Delirium

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Suriya al- Kubra! Syria – punches far above her weight class in diplopolititary deals. Instead of cool stuff like Hooters, literacy rates off the charts or creating advanced avionics – Bashar Bay Bee follows poppa Assad’s script utilizing asymmetrical assets creating a slave trading Syria, abusing Palestinians as a strategic minority resource, fiddling about with […]

 

Incoming!

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Make your brain more bigger with hot deets, big phased cookies and intell dossiers from the cool kids @ Foreign Policy Initiatives Libya Rebels in Libya’s western Nafusa mountain range were less than 50 miles from the nation’s capital Thursday and edging closer to their first significant victory outside their mountain stronghold, pounding the small […]

 

Doctrine Of Constrainment

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Constrained! That’s what they calls it after the ‘rents freak the freak out about next month’s Visa statement showcasing over a hundred bucks splurged on liq liq liquor (liquor) on a Tuesday night (to be fair – please note a Jalapeno burger de luxe should be in there somewhere):  – with the appropriate gratuity – […]

 

Drones Alone

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They are relentless predators. They never sleep, never stop and cannot be killed. They tote death, annihilation and misery to enemies. They are Great Satan’s all weather killer drones. Now that it’s official COIN has been short changed in AFPAK – drones alone remain the “Only Game In Town”and are reproducing at a wonderfully crunk […]

 

UnAssing AFPAK

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Jirga! 44’s hello ’bout ‘nnouncing the AFPAK Surge will be scaling down by 10K troops this year enroute to unSurging the force levels had some interesting stuff in it. Kinda. Zooming out of AFPAK (which featured only tiny bite sized bits about Land of the Pure – the PAK part of AFPAK) 44 unveiled a […]

 

Sirens Of Isolationism

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“O Tay Mr Peabody! Set the dial on the Way Back Machine to 1911!” Prob the best descrip of the recent GOP Debatery that CNN King Grunting Guy kept grunting through (yeah – it was kinda gross) “…Mitt Romney sounded not so terribly different from Obama on Afghanistan, with the crucial difference that he wants […]

 

Black Veil Brides

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Ihkwan – rhymes with ‘stick one.’ Just saying. Regardless of any chances that a trip on the Way Back Machine will – or will not -create an Aegyptian redux of Ottoman like Imperial m”Hammedism, there is a very serious – secular – concern about the Ihkwan – the you know what Brotherhood. Especially in Egypt. […]

 

Army Day!

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“This We’ll Defend!” Joyeuex Anniversaire’! (#236 in fact!) to Great Satan’s all weather original voltiguerres – the Army! “…Two hundred and thirty-six years ago, the United States Army was established to defend our Nation. From the Revolutionary War to the current operations taking place around the world, our Soldiers remain Army Strong with a deep […]

 

Palestinian Sympathy Fatigue

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“Palestine!? Wouldn’t I be crazy to want that?” To paraphrase the avuncular Britishy cat (‘ello luv) that seemed psychically on target nigh unto a decade past. Everybody knows about the Nakbah – essentially a land grab by Little Satan’s neighboring nation states that went horribly wrong – granting Little Satan even more real estate! Since […]

 

Libyan Box

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War Powers! “44 has not sought, and Congress has not provided, authorization for the introduction or continued involvement of Great Satan’s Armed Forces in Libya.:  Congress has the constitutional prerogative to withhold funding for any unauthorized use of Great Satan’s Armed Forces, including for unauthorized chicanery regarding Libya.” Whee! So what? 44’s predecessors have sweetly […]

 

Morning Glory

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Learning to love living in the shadow of the new clear sphinx! Persia’s Preacher Command swears out loud to swap production of higher-grade uranium to an underground bunker and trip, trip, triple production capacity! Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s (no doubt the official guardians of any future new clear weaponry stock) Farsi site GERDAB sweetly floats a […]