Monday, July 16, 2007

Infrastructure wars

This totally flew by my radar screen until today:

Mexico's Pemex restores pipeline damaged in intentional explosion

That's probably because it has been almost totally ignored here in the land of Freedom of the Press. Seems like a small leftist guerrilla group set off several explosions, damaging a gas pipeline between Mexico City and Guadalajara. Some big factories were forced to close down.

Also, the pipeline has not gone back online as of that article on Friday and there is no word yet today if it has indeed been repaired.

It seems to me that this type of 4th generation warfare is going to be more and more prevalent, is very hard to stop, and can have severe economic consequences. I don't know if these people got their idea to blow up a pipeline from Iraq, but the lessons of that war are available worldwide, another benefit of the excellent adventure.
(h/t Postman Patel)

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