A Late Day DrumBeat, just for ha-has...

Check out John Robb's latest, The Changing Face of War: Into the 5th Generation (5GW)...

...and from Alternet:

Even as Iraq verges on splintering into a sectarian civil war, four big oil companies are on the verge of locking up its massive, profitable reserves, known to everyone in the petroleum industry as "the prize."
Discuss.