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Saturday, July 01, 2006
 
RECOMMENDED READING

From Callimachus at Done with Mirrors an excellent, reflective, critical, essay "Among the Dead Cities"tackling moral philosophy and history. A luminescent post.

From Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, on "New architecture, new enterprise".

From Nadezhda at American Footprints, on "Ron Suskind and the Revolt of the Professionals". This post is really worth further reflection and commentary from me, as is usually the case with Nad's posts, but as I have not read the Suskind book yet I decline, even though obvious questions regarding secario planning leap to mind. Perhaps Art Hutchinson will deign to do a review of his own.

William Lind at DNI offers his review of Dr. Chet Richard's Neither Shall The Sword.

Dan of tdaxp on "In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court Limits International Law".

Some milreading titles available on Sonny's "Expeditionary Bookshelf" at FX-Based.

Wiggins has a tripartite treat at Opposed System Design with " China's Interests -Part I", "Part II" and "Part III".

That's it !
 
Comments:
Hi Sonny,

Great response. You hit the nail on the head regarding scholars, though in a rare defense of academics, the military might actually get a decent response by approaching scholars differently, by systematically reaching out on a personal, quiet, unofficial, level which will get around every university department's obnoxious cohort of America-hating nutjobs.

A lot of academics simply need to be asked for their help in a ay that doesn't create career-grief for them.
 
Hi Sonny,

First, my apologies if you had trouble posting any comments. If you continue to have trouble, please feel free to email me (opposed.systems.design@gmail.com). I would hate to miss out on your perspective!

Second, let me offer hearty agreement to your call for more contact between the academic and military circles of our society. I've been meditating upon the following Thucydides quote ever since I read that Small Wars Council thread that you and Mark commented upon:

"Any society that separates its warriors and its scholars will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

My meditations may turn into a post at some point, but I figured I'd share the quote here since it is so relevent...
 
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