Comments on: Weapons and Tactics of the Niger Delta http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/09/23/weapons-and-tactics-of-the-niger-delta/ Firearms not Politics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:18:29 +1300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jcamelo http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/09/23/weapons-and-tactics-of-the-niger-delta/#comment-3191 Jcamelo Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/?p=2686#comment-3191 As you can see thes guys are not lightly armed and they look like they mean business (note the heavy calibre and low calibre machine guns and the rpgs As you can see thes guys are not lightly armed and they look like they mean business (note the heavy calibre and low calibre machine guns and the rpgs

]]> By: Eric Church http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/09/23/weapons-and-tactics-of-the-niger-delta/#comment-2904 Eric Church Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:37:48 +0000 http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/?p=2686#comment-2904 Their tactics and weapons may not be top that impressive, but their strategy is. These guys are part of why oil prices are where they are right now. See http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4196 for a good understanding of the significance of the oil platform attack. and http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/06/global-oil-unde.html for how it fits into a larger trend. note: John Robb's (the person behind the global guerrillas blog) overall ideas are very interesting but I believe takes his analysis to an extreme point to promote himself. Their tactics and weapons may not be top that impressive, but their strategy is. These guys are part of why oil prices are where they are right now.

See
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4196
for a good understanding of the significance of the oil platform attack.

and

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/06/global-oil-unde.html

for how it fits into a larger trend.
note: John Robb’s (the person behind the global guerrillas blog) overall ideas are very interesting but I believe takes his analysis to an extreme point to promote himself.

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