Balkan Foreign Fighters

Why Foreign Fighters? Historical Perspectives and Solutions

Insurgencies that recruit foreign nationals to join rebel groups in various civil wars around the globe are a source of growing concern to policymakers. Despite attention focused on recent Islamist groups, foreign fighters are a phenomenon that is neither new nor uniquely Islamic. In conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the Afghanistan War, insurgencies consistently recruited foreigners by f...

FOREIGN FIGHTERS Trends , Trajectories & Conflict Zones

Moroccan Foreign Fighters. Evolution of the Phenomenon, Promotive Factors, and the Limits of Hardline Policies

With a contingent of around 1,500 fighters, Morocco is considered one of the main exporters of foreign fighters to Syria. Until 2014, Moroccan authorities, who were content to see their own jihadis leave and add to the pressure on Bashar al-Assad, mostly turned a blind eye to networks of recruitment. Since the dramatic rise of the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, concern over local repercussio...

Evolving Robocode Tank Fighters

In this paper, I describe the application of genetic programming to evolve a controller for a robotic tank in a simulated environment. The purpose is to explore how genetic techniques can best be applied to produce controllers based on subsumption and behavior oriented languages such as REX. As part of my implementation, I developed TableRex, a modification of REX that can be expressed on a fix...

Fighters of Fate

That genius is often allied to tuberculosis, or even possibly inspired by it, is an old time observation, and in this booh the author gives brief bibliographies of twenty-four very eminent persons who were all the subjects of pulmonary tuberculosis. His style is easy and pleasant to read, but this chief purpose is propaganda?of the right order. In former times the tuberculous genius had but a s...