Location: San Jose , CA , United States of America Aerospike, Inc. , and in 2015 founded Globalcommit.org. In the past I used to work for Cisco Systems, and founded Green Knight Publishing and Celebrate History (both presently defunct). I've done work for West End Games and Chaosium game products. I've worked at Apple (albeit for a contractor) and the old Macintosh dealer ComputerWare. I've also worked at Chase Manhattan Bank.
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Wikipedia Contribution [ edit ] I took a virtual "leave of absence" 2007-2008 from Wikipedia, yet felt compelled to return to work on this global information resource in late 2008. It is very good to be back! --Petercorless (talk ) 20:52, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Recent Changes [ edit ] January 2016 [ edit ] April 2011 [ edit ] Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD )2002 Mombasa hotel bombing • 1998 United States embassy bombings • Battle of Fada • Darfur conflict
African Union • List of African Union member states by political system
West Africa Campaign (World War II) Libreville • Battle of Gabon Battle of Dakar
Somalia [ edit ] Somalia • History of Somalia • Economy of Somalia • Somali language • Greater Somalia
Somali Government [ edit ] Transitional Federal Institutions
History of the Transitional Federal Government of the Republic of Somalia
Politics of Somalia
Peace and Peacekeeping [ edit ] Disarmament in Somalia Diplomatic and humanitarian efforts in the Somali Civil War Attempts at Reconciliation in Somalia (1991-2004) African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM)IGAD Peace Support Mission to Somalia IGASOM Informal Preparatory Meeting on National Reconciliation Conference on National Reconciliation in Somalia 2002 Somali Reconciliation Conference Addis Ababa Agreement (1993) • Operation Provide Relief • Operation Restore Hope
War and Conflict [ edit ] Somali Civil War
Ethiopian-Somali conflict
Military Engagements [ edit ] Battle of Baidoa Battle of Bandiradley Battle of Beledweyne Battle of Jowhar Fall of Mogadishu Battle of Jilib Fall of Kismayo Battle of Ras Kamboni
Jubaland Puntland Southwestern Somalia Galmudug
Factions [ edit ] Factions in the Somali Civil War
Transitional National Government (TNG)Juba Valley Alliance (JVA)Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT)Somalia Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC)Somali Patriot Movement (SPM)Somali National Front (SNF)United Somali Congress (USC) • Somali National Movement (SNM)Allied Somali Forces (ASF)Somali National Alliance (SNA)
Islamic Courts Union (ICU)Hizbul Shabaab Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations
National Security Service (Somalia) (NSS)
Tribes and Clans [ edit ] Locations [ edit ] Karkaar Ayn
Ras Kamboni Bakaara Market Bardera • Bu'aale • Kismayu
Personalities [ edit ] List of Somalians
TNG/TFG [ edit ] Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Ali Mohammed Ghedi • Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid Barre Adan Shire Hiiraale Salad Ali Jelle Ismail Qasim Naji Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig Muktar Hussein Afrah Abdiqasim Salad Hassan • Hassan Abshir Farah Osman Jama Ali • Ali Khalif Galaydh • Jama Ali Jama • Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden Asha Haji Elmi Dr Mohamed Sheikh Mohamud Guled (Gacmadheere) • Mohamed Warsame Ali • Omar Muhamoud Finnish Musa Sudi Yalahow Mohamed Afrah Qanyare Osman Ali Atto • Omar Hashi Aden
Hassan Dahir Aweys Sharif Ahmed Abdirahman Janaqow Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki Aden Hashi Farah "Eyrow" Yusuf Mohammed Siad Inda'ade Abu Taha al-Sudan Daniel Joseph Maldonado
Warlords [ edit ] Mohamed Farrah Aidid Yusuf Ahmed Hagar Dabageed Mohamed Omar Habeb Dhere Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan Abdi Hasan Awale Qeybdiid Ali Mahdi Muhammad
Historical [ edit ] Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi • Cabdulle Gorod • Aden Abdullah Osman Daar • Abdirashid Ali Shermarke • Abdirizak Haji Hussein • Mohammed Siad Barre
Somaliland [ edit ] For Justice and Development (UCID)
Sool Sanaag Togdheer • Awdal • Las Khorey • Badhan
Ethiopia [ edit ] Military of Ethiopia Kombolcha • Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
Panjdeh Incident • 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake • Pankisi Gorge • Islamic Emirate of Waziristan • Gurkha
War in South Ossetia (2008) • First Nagorno-Karabakh War • Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan • Sadarak
Souvanna Phouma
Saffronization Hindu nationalism • Naxalite • Communist Party of India (Maoist) • Chhattisgarh • Liberhan Commission
Terrorist Attacks [ edit ] 2008 Mumbai attacks • Responsibility for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks Azam Amir Kasav
Islamist Organizations [ edit ] Deccan Mujahideen Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) • Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam
Battle of Henan-Hunan-Guangxi
Balkans [ edit ] Greater Bulgaria
Military [ edit ] Strategies, Tactics, and Operations [ edit ] Siege • Resistance movement • Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure Maritime Security Operations (MSO)Military operations other than war (MOOTW) • Effects-Based Operations (EBO)Stand up (military)
Ground Vehicles [ edit ] Technical (fighting vehicle) High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) • Infantry Mobility Vehicle (IMV)Scout car Gun truck • Bushmaster IMV
Naval Vessels [ edit ] Pre-industrial armoured ships • Russian submarine K-266
Fortifications [ edit ] Castle • Motte-and-bailey • Limes • Concentric castle • Redoubt • Revetment • Japanese castle
Islam and Islamists [ edit ] Islam
Global Conflict [ edit ] Jihad vs. McWorld Clash of Civilizations
Movements [ edit ] Al-Qaeda Mujahideen Tablighi Jamaat • Qadiriyyah
Conflicts and Operations [ edit ] List of wars in the Muslim world • Operation Cyclone Soviet war in Afghanistan • Terrorism in Kashmir
Neologisms [ edit ] Al-Qaedaism Talibanization Islamism • Islamofascism
Personalities [ edit ] Fazul Abdullah Mohammed • Sulaiman Abu Ghaith • Ibn al-Khattab • Shamil Basayev
UN and Arms Control [ edit ] SALW Gun control Gun politics Domains of Gun Politics Wendy Chamberlin Arms control • Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) • Gunrunning • Phosphorus
Conflicts and Operations [ edit ] War on Terrorism • Allegations of state terrorism by United States of America
Operation Enduring Freedom • Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa Operation Enduring Freedom - Trans Sahara Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative Operation Enduring Freedom - Pankisi Gorge • Joint Combined Exchange Training • Battle of Cieneguilla
Organizations and Commands [ edit ] United States Africa Command
Combined Task Forces [ edit ] Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa Combined Task Force 150
Combat Logistics Battalion 2
2d Battalion, 20th Field Artillery • 4th Infantry Division Artillery • 1st Infantry Division
Installations and Bases [ edit ] List of United States Army installations • List of United States Air Force installations • List of United States Marine Corps installations • List of United States Navy installations
Cooperative Security Location Forward Operating Site Forward Operating Base (FOB)
Camp Lemonnier Kelley Barracks
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) • USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) • USS Newport News (SSN-750)
Leaders [ edit ] General John Abizaid • Edwin Taylor Pollock
Commodore Bruce Williams, Royal Navy
Operation Compass
Windsor Castle
British Iron Age
History [ edit ] List of wars 2003–current • List of irredentist claims or disputes
Cold War (1953-1962) • U-2 Crisis of 1960
Monroe Doctrine
Knights Templar
World War II • Allies of World War II • Participants in World War II • Timeline of World War II
Pacific War • Ledo Road • The Stilwell Road (movie) • Wang Jingwei Government • Nanjing
13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade
Language, Linguistics & Philosophy [ edit ] English [ edit ] Stupidity
Latin Expressions [ edit ] Carpent tua poma nepotes
Artists [ edit ] Bruce Degen
Musicians & Singers [ edit ] Ysabella Brave
Timeline of algebra
Lancelot-Grail
Politics, Sociology & Economics [ edit ] Sovereignty • National security Community recognition Nationalism • Ethnic nationalism • McWorld • Energy intensity David Emory
2009 H1N1 Flu Outbreak
Nature and Conservation [ edit ] Duck crossing
Roleplaying [ edit ] Pendragon (role-playing game) • Castle Marrach
Beach Channel High School
Floyd Bennett Field
Pennsylvania [ edit ] Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts
Liberty Middle School (Virginia)
Latest Graphics [ edit ]
War in Somalia, Securing the Kenyan Border, January 1-4, 2006
Somali War 2007, US Airstrike, January 8, 2007
Somali War, Battle of Ras Kamboni, January 5-12, 2007
Graphics Gallery [ edit ] Somali Civil War, Withdrawal of the ICU, December 27-29, 2006
Somali Civil War, Battle of Jilib, December 31, 2006
Battle of Beledweyne, Dec 24–25, 2006
Battle of Baidoa, December 20-26, 2006
Battle of Bandiradley, December 24-25, 2006
Somali Civil War, Ethiopian Intervention, Dec 20-25, 2006
GDP per Capita vs. Energy Efficiency
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Somali Civil War, Battle of Jilib, December 31, 2006
Battle of Beledweyne, Dec 24–25, 2006
Battle of Baidoa, December 20-26, 2006
Battle of Bandiradley, December 24-25, 2006
Somali Civil War, Ethiopian Intervention, Dec 20-25, 2006
GDP per Capita vs. Energy Efficiency
