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Sunday, November 18, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Many irons in the fire this morning and I'm slurping down coffee fast and furiously but here it is:
Top Billing! abu muqawama - "Petraeus Picks the Next Generation"
I hereby promote this gentleman to the status of " daily read". You should too.
Adam Elkus - "Resilience and American Security
Nice piece by Adam. Historically, when an armed service is out of the national spotlight as the Navy is today, it becomes a time of either intellectual growth or ossification within it's officer corps.
The Center For Threat Awareness in "Think Tank 2.0" form has been launched! ( I knew it was coming but a hat tip to Shlok nonetheless and congrats to Michael Tanji and his compadres)
Strategic Security Blog - "White House Guidance Led to New Nuclear Strike Plans Against Proliferators, Document Shows". Hat tip to Wiggins at OSD.
I'd this one a must-read for national security wonks. It's also good evidence as to how specialist blogs can easily outclass the reportage of even flagship MSM outlets.
Fabius Maximus, often featured at DNI, now has a blog - here are a couple of sample posts
"Empowered individuals — and super-empowered ones!" and "The Essential 4GW reading list: chapter Two, Donald Vandergriff".
Dr. Barnett has been spotted attending Matrix conventions.
That's it!
Many irons in the fire this morning and I'm slurping down coffee fast and furiously but here it is:
Top Billing! abu muqawama - "Petraeus Picks the Next Generation"
I hereby promote this gentleman to the status of " daily read". You should too.
Adam Elkus - "Resilience and American Security
Nice piece by Adam. Historically, when an armed service is out of the national spotlight as the Navy is today, it becomes a time of either intellectual growth or ossification within it's officer corps.
The Center For Threat Awareness in "Think Tank 2.0" form has been launched! ( I knew it was coming but a hat tip to Shlok nonetheless and congrats to Michael Tanji and his compadres)
Strategic Security Blog - "White House Guidance Led to New Nuclear Strike Plans Against Proliferators, Document Shows". Hat tip to Wiggins at OSD.
I'd this one a must-read for national security wonks. It's also good evidence as to how specialist blogs can easily outclass the reportage of even flagship MSM outlets.
Fabius Maximus, often featured at DNI, now has a blog - here are a couple of sample posts
"Empowered individuals — and super-empowered ones!" and "The Essential 4GW reading list: chapter Two, Donald Vandergriff".
Dr. Barnett has been spotted attending Matrix conventions.
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 8:49 AM 1 comments
Sunday, November 11, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
An eclectic grouping today. Feel badly that I have not posted much lately but I've been working on some short pieces for other venues, a couple of large projects at work and (today) getting my application papers together for a doctoral program ( hopefully, a joint degree if two departments will sign off. We'll see. I've learned to suspect the breezy assertions of university bureaucrats). Without further ado.
Top Billing! The Man Who is Thursday -"The Creative and the Critical, or Taste and Genius"
Robert Satloff in WaPo - "How to Win The War Of Ideas"
One thought that arises reading Satloff, is that we need to distinguish the degree to which non-Salafist or secular Muslims are intimidated by takfiri death threats; to scenarios where they lack the resources to speak out effectively; and finally, the extent to which we are simply unaware of the intra-Muslim dialogue because it is entirely off of our radar.
Pundita -"Speaking your truth vs fighting the ideas of others"
Pundita critiques Satloff and argues that we are not very well suited to try an orchestrate other society's political debates over the fine points of Islamic theology and that investing deeply in promoting democratic or liberal governance, something we understand, is a wiser investment of scarce resources.
Thomas P.M. Barnett - "Barnett: Build better fairy dust, suffer fewer bad actors"
Rule-sets and transparency go hand in hand with connectivity and intersectional convergence. Tom jumps on the The Medici Effect bandwagon. I'm waiting for him to read Wikinomics and see the congruency of the two books.
Swedish Meatballs Confidential - "Sinuous Sunday - The Sharp End of Altruism" and "CATCH-ALL - Suck it Up - All of It"
The first is interesting. The second is important.
Opposed System Design - "Game Theorizing with Bueno de Mesquita"
"Another study evaluating Bueno de Mesquita’s real-time forecasts of 21 policy decisions in the European community concluded that “the probability that the predicted outcome was what indeed occurred was an astounding 97 percent.”
Hmmm .... amazing ....but predicated on the existence of a particular cultural-epistemological basis of rationality ? Will this work with assessing mountain tribesmen in New Guinea or Vietnamese Politburo members ?
That's it!
An eclectic grouping today. Feel badly that I have not posted much lately but I've been working on some short pieces for other venues, a couple of large projects at work and (today) getting my application papers together for a doctoral program ( hopefully, a joint degree if two departments will sign off. We'll see. I've learned to suspect the breezy assertions of university bureaucrats). Without further ado.
Top Billing! The Man Who is Thursday -"The Creative and the Critical, or Taste and Genius"
This link was left by an anonymous commenter. It's good fodder for discussion and probably deserves a post of it's own in response, by me or Dan of tdaxp. Like me, Dan's pretty busy these days so, we'll see if anyone gets to it. LOL! In any event, worth your time to read.
Robert Satloff in WaPo - "How to Win The War Of Ideas"
One thought that arises reading Satloff, is that we need to distinguish the degree to which non-Salafist or secular Muslims are intimidated by takfiri death threats; to scenarios where they lack the resources to speak out effectively; and finally, the extent to which we are simply unaware of the intra-Muslim dialogue because it is entirely off of our radar.
Pundita -"Speaking your truth vs fighting the ideas of others"
Pundita critiques Satloff and argues that we are not very well suited to try an orchestrate other society's political debates over the fine points of Islamic theology and that investing deeply in promoting democratic or liberal governance, something we understand, is a wiser investment of scarce resources.
Thomas P.M. Barnett - "Barnett: Build better fairy dust, suffer fewer bad actors"
Rule-sets and transparency go hand in hand with connectivity and intersectional convergence. Tom jumps on the The Medici Effect bandwagon. I'm waiting for him to read Wikinomics and see the congruency of the two books.
Swedish Meatballs Confidential - "Sinuous Sunday - The Sharp End of Altruism" and "CATCH-ALL - Suck it Up - All of It"
The first is interesting. The second is important.
Opposed System Design - "Game Theorizing with Bueno de Mesquita"
"Another study evaluating Bueno de Mesquita’s real-time forecasts of 21 policy decisions in the European community concluded that “the probability that the predicted outcome was what indeed occurred was an astounding 97 percent.”
Hmmm .... amazing ....but predicated on the existence of a particular cultural-epistemological basis of rationality ? Will this work with assessing mountain tribesmen in New Guinea or Vietnamese Politburo members ?
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 8:21 AM 4 comments
Sunday, November 04, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday...where blog reaction is the attraction!
Sean Meade - "Catch-22"
Sean puts away his proofreader's blue pencil and dons the Hat of Literary Criticism to make an (accurate) point about generational zeitgeist.
Global Guerillas - "ON OPEN SOURCE GUERRILLA VANGUARDS"
Great theory post by John Robb. I'd say that the Maoists exploited a latent crisis of legitimacy rather than created one "ex nihilo". Both the Chinese Communists and the Kuomintang were a reaction against the collapse of the Q'ing and the inability Yuan Shih-kai and various warlords to step into the breach. The history of China from the Boxer Rebellion to Mao's triumph in 1949 was a laboratory for questions of 4GW, state-building, state failure, foreign intervention, guerilla warfare theory, counterinsurgency and many of the issues with which statesmen and military commanders are wrestling with in Iraq.
Shane and Curtis at Dreaming5GW - "5GW in Clausewitz’s Trinity" and "John Robb: “On Open Source Guerrilla Vanguards”
Respectively, Shane is expanding on the exchange here over Fabius Maximus and Curtis delves into the above post by John. Speaking as a historian, what we know about about Soviet and American decision-making during the Cuban missile crisis offers a serious caution regarding game theory assumptions of rationality. Excomm was an exercise in attempting rationality but the "fog of war" was so dangerously opaque as to render such intentions almost moot. The problem of information was redoubled on the Soviet side due to the nature of the Soviet system and Khrushchev's political conflicts within the Presidium
Dave at The Glittering Eye - "Obama’s Proposal to Break the Impasse on Iran (Updated)"
Dave gives his trademark serious evaluation to Senator Obama's proposal to give a presidential-level investment in diplomatic talks with Iran and he's right about Obama's monocausal explanation of Iranian behavior.
While I am in favor of serious diplomatic negotiations withIran, I'm not crazy about a foreign policy neophyte like Obama a) taking a personal, presidential, lead in negotiating strategy - that's what the secretary of state is for when the president is green; and b) staking a brand-new administration's prestige on the outcome of negotiations with as difficult and hostile a diplomatic adversary as the Iranians. We don't need to unilaterally ratchet up the pressure on ourselves for a deal when enough real-world, strategic concerns abound.
Dan of tdaxp - "Automaticity (Automation of Schemata)"
Dan's research is investigating a crucial cognitive process, one without which we'd have been hard-pressed to have gotten out of the stone age.
Shlok has been published in Pragati: The Indian National Interest Review with an article on Naxalite Rage ( no link). Congrats, Shlok !!
CKR - "The Strategery Article"
Cheryl Rofer identifies strategic paralysis at the heart of the Bush administration, for which she blames the president. I agree, though for different reasons. One reason would be the self-crippling, insularity of the information-flow around Mr. Bush and his key advisers (which ultimately, is also Bush's fault. A president pretty much gets the national security process he really wants to have). Only part of this distortion is ideological, much of it is court politics to keep control of the king's ear, so to speak. Hadley's origins as a national security expert, for example, were in the Kissingerian-dominated Ford administration, yet he reputedly leads the pack to "shoot the messenger" on Iraq, among the inner circle.
That's it!
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday...where blog reaction is the attraction!
Sean Meade - "Catch-22"
Sean puts away his proofreader's blue pencil and dons the Hat of Literary Criticism to make an (accurate) point about generational zeitgeist.
Global Guerillas - "ON OPEN SOURCE GUERRILLA VANGUARDS"
Great theory post by John Robb. I'd say that the Maoists exploited a latent crisis of legitimacy rather than created one "ex nihilo". Both the Chinese Communists and the Kuomintang were a reaction against the collapse of the Q'ing and the inability Yuan Shih-kai and various warlords to step into the breach. The history of China from the Boxer Rebellion to Mao's triumph in 1949 was a laboratory for questions of 4GW, state-building, state failure, foreign intervention, guerilla warfare theory, counterinsurgency and many of the issues with which statesmen and military commanders are wrestling with in Iraq.
Shane and Curtis at Dreaming5GW - "5GW in Clausewitz’s Trinity" and "John Robb: “On Open Source Guerrilla Vanguards”
Respectively, Shane is expanding on the exchange here over Fabius Maximus and Curtis delves into the above post by John. Speaking as a historian, what we know about about Soviet and American decision-making during the Cuban missile crisis offers a serious caution regarding game theory assumptions of rationality. Excomm was an exercise in attempting rationality but the "fog of war" was so dangerously opaque as to render such intentions almost moot. The problem of information was redoubled on the Soviet side due to the nature of the Soviet system and Khrushchev's political conflicts within the Presidium
Dave at The Glittering Eye - "Obama’s Proposal to Break the Impasse on Iran (Updated)"
Dave gives his trademark serious evaluation to Senator Obama's proposal to give a presidential-level investment in diplomatic talks with Iran and he's right about Obama's monocausal explanation of Iranian behavior.
While I am in favor of serious diplomatic negotiations withIran, I'm not crazy about a foreign policy neophyte like Obama a) taking a personal, presidential, lead in negotiating strategy - that's what the secretary of state is for when the president is green; and b) staking a brand-new administration's prestige on the outcome of negotiations with as difficult and hostile a diplomatic adversary as the Iranians. We don't need to unilaterally ratchet up the pressure on ourselves for a deal when enough real-world, strategic concerns abound.
Dan of tdaxp - "Automaticity (Automation of Schemata)"
Dan's research is investigating a crucial cognitive process, one without which we'd have been hard-pressed to have gotten out of the stone age.
Shlok has been published in Pragati: The Indian National Interest Review with an article on Naxalite Rage ( no link). Congrats, Shlok !!
CKR - "The Strategery Article"
Cheryl Rofer identifies strategic paralysis at the heart of the Bush administration, for which she blames the president. I agree, though for different reasons. One reason would be the self-crippling, insularity of the information-flow around Mr. Bush and his key advisers (which ultimately, is also Bush's fault. A president pretty much gets the national security process he really wants to have). Only part of this distortion is ideological, much of it is court politics to keep control of the king's ear, so to speak. Hadley's origins as a national security expert, for example, were in the Kissingerian-dominated Ford administration, yet he reputedly leads the pack to "shoot the messenger" on Iraq, among the inner circle.
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 6:49 AM 8 comments
Sunday, October 28, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Very short today. Working on several posts right now.
Michael Tanji at Threatswatch - "Self Defense is National Defense"
Permanent Innovation Blog - "Mind Mapping Permanent Innovation"
Thomas P. M. Barnett - "The Map at State"
Chirol at Coming Anarchy - "Turkish Options"
That's it!
Very short today. Working on several posts right now.
Michael Tanji at Threatswatch - "Self Defense is National Defense"
Permanent Innovation Blog - "Mind Mapping Permanent Innovation"
Thomas P. M. Barnett - "The Map at State"
Chirol at Coming Anarchy - "Turkish Options"
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 7:23 AM 0 comments
Sunday, October 21, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
First, I'd like to welcome two fine new blogs to the economy-sized Zenpundit blogroll:
Kings of War
The Grand Strategy Blog
And now, on to the recommended reading portion of our post.
SWJ BLOG - "COIN of the Realm"
Wizards of Oz - "Trafalgar Day"
Citizen Netmom -"Liveblogging: EdEvangelist Ian Jukes "
Curzon of Coming Anarchy - "Technology lessons from the Iraq war" and "Superstates"
HNN - "The Beginning of the End of the Facade of Russian Democracy"
Russia Blog - "Does Putin Seek to Retain Poweror Preserve His Legacy?" and "Kremlins: KGB, Gulags, Putin is Evil…blah, blah, blah…"
Ross Mayfield - "Choice Drives Change" (hat tip to Chris Anderson)
Thoughts Illustrated -"Innovation-What's Luck got to do with it?"
History Unfolding -"Rivers in Egypt"
Charlie Rose TV interview of Col. David Kilcullen ( Hat tip to John Robb)
That's it!
First, I'd like to welcome two fine new blogs to the economy-sized Zenpundit blogroll:
Kings of War
The Grand Strategy Blog
And now, on to the recommended reading portion of our post.
SWJ BLOG - "COIN of the Realm"
Wizards of Oz - "Trafalgar Day"
Citizen Netmom -"Liveblogging: EdEvangelist Ian Jukes "
Curzon of Coming Anarchy - "Technology lessons from the Iraq war" and "Superstates"
HNN - "The Beginning of the End of the Facade of Russian Democracy"
Russia Blog - "Does Putin Seek to Retain Poweror Preserve His Legacy?" and "Kremlins: KGB, Gulags, Putin is Evil…blah, blah, blah…"
Ross Mayfield - "Choice Drives Change" (hat tip to Chris Anderson)
Thoughts Illustrated -"Innovation-What's Luck got to do with it?"
History Unfolding -"Rivers in Egypt"
Charlie Rose TV interview of Col. David Kilcullen ( Hat tip to John Robb)
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading, recommended viewing
¶ 7:04 PM 2 comments
Sunday, October 14, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Top Billing! " 'Band of Brothers' Kinship Endures"
Easy Company's new authors, William "Wild Bill " Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron.
Having been the focus of several best selling military histories, including Band of Brothers and an acclaimed HBO miniseries of the same name, two veterans of the celebrated "Easy Company" have told their own story in a joint memoir Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends.
Matt Armstrong -in GOOD Magazine - "America Should Hire al-Qaeda’s PR Agent"
A short but pungent critique about fortress embassies and IO incompetence.
Swedish Meatballs Confidential - " You Can't Polish a Turd"
Well...that's quite an icebreaker of a post heading.
Pundita - "Strategic Communication: how to get your message across when the enemy's agitprop is better than yours"
Pundita takes a break from her excellent, in-depth, coverage of Burma to comment at length on one of my prior IO posts, taking the counterintuitive path in her conclusion.
Kings of War -"Smart army but what is it good for?"
Critique of the Kilcullen/Nagl COIN transformation from the Brit perspective.
William McCallister at SWJ Blog -"Pamphlet: COIN and Irregular Warfare in a Tribal Society "( read the pamphlet here -PDF)
More of a journal article (72 pages) than a pamphlet, McCallister gives a substantive overview and analysis of working with tribesmen.
That's it !
Top Billing! " 'Band of Brothers' Kinship Endures"
Easy Company's new authors, William "Wild Bill " Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron.
Having been the focus of several best selling military histories, including Band of Brothers and an acclaimed HBO miniseries of the same name, two veterans of the celebrated "Easy Company" have told their own story in a joint memoir Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends.
Matt Armstrong -in GOOD Magazine - "America Should Hire al-Qaeda’s PR Agent"
A short but pungent critique about fortress embassies and IO incompetence.
Swedish Meatballs Confidential - " You Can't Polish a Turd"
Well...that's quite an icebreaker of a post heading.
Pundita - "Strategic Communication: how to get your message across when the enemy's agitprop is better than yours"
Pundita takes a break from her excellent, in-depth, coverage of Burma to comment at length on one of my prior IO posts, taking the counterintuitive path in her conclusion.
Kings of War -"Smart army but what is it good for?"
Critique of the Kilcullen/Nagl COIN transformation from the Brit perspective.
William McCallister at SWJ Blog -"Pamphlet: COIN and Irregular Warfare in a Tribal Society "( read the pamphlet here -PDF)
More of a journal article (72 pages) than a pamphlet, McCallister gives a substantive overview and analysis of working with tribesmen.
That's it !
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 8:10 AM 1 comments
Thursday, September 27, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Better late than never - yes ?
Top Billing! Edge Perspectives With John Hagel - "Convergence or Divergence?"
I think Hagel operates on the theory that your blog will always have fantastic posts if you only write ten or twelve of them per year.
Steve DeAngelis at ERMB - "Radical Collaboration" and "Complexity and Resilience"
Complexity and Radical Collaboration are two elements of operating at "the intersection", the creative verge of multiple domains. This is the field of play for the horizontal thinker! More on this topic very soon but read Steve's take first.
Haft of the Spear -"Words are Important" and "this is funny"
Tanji en fuego !!
Fabius Maximus - "Beyond Insurgency: An End to Our War in Iraq"
Part of a DNI series by FM on Iraq. Some of which is sensible and some of which will provoke the readership and cause gnashing of teeth - perhaps on both ends of the political spectrum.
Thoughts Illustrated - "What goes around, comes around! " and "Too many ripples in the pond? "
The first post by Dave is some tech history and the second deals with an important concept (ROA) for anyone considering issues of attention scarcity.
The Long Tail - "Social Networking is a feature, not a destination"
Thoughtful commentary on the cultural-technological evolution of social networking apps by Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail.
The Small Wars Journal Volume 9 (PDF)
'Nuff said.
That's it !
Better late than never - yes ?
Top Billing! Edge Perspectives With John Hagel - "Convergence or Divergence?"
I think Hagel operates on the theory that your blog will always have fantastic posts if you only write ten or twelve of them per year.
Steve DeAngelis at ERMB - "Radical Collaboration" and "Complexity and Resilience"
Complexity and Radical Collaboration are two elements of operating at "the intersection", the creative verge of multiple domains. This is the field of play for the horizontal thinker! More on this topic very soon but read Steve's take first.
Haft of the Spear -"Words are Important" and "this is funny"
Tanji en fuego !!
Fabius Maximus - "Beyond Insurgency: An End to Our War in Iraq"
Part of a DNI series by FM on Iraq. Some of which is sensible and some of which will provoke the readership and cause gnashing of teeth - perhaps on both ends of the political spectrum.
Thoughts Illustrated - "What goes around, comes around! " and "Too many ripples in the pond? "
The first post by Dave is some tech history and the second deals with an important concept (ROA) for anyone considering issues of attention scarcity.
The Long Tail - "Social Networking is a feature, not a destination"
Thoughtful commentary on the cultural-technological evolution of social networking apps by Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail.
The Small Wars Journal Volume 9 (PDF)
'Nuff said.
That's it !
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 6:17 PM 2 comments
Sunday, September 16, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Wow - seems like I just did this....
Swedish Meatballs Confidential - "Financial Warfare 101"
Generally, governments do more economic damage to themselves through bad fiscal, regulatory and monetary policies than they could ever suffer through international sanctions or sabotage, but mucking around with market instruments might be a sharp blow to the solar plexus. Beware feedback loops, however.
Complexity and Social Networking Blog -"Campaign contributions and the network of hedgers"
Mapping the California "Big Donors" who are hedging between Obama and Clinton. Tailor made for the political geek.
Haft of the Spear - "everything old is new again"
A depressing political signal, I agree. Hopefully, we'll be pleasantly surprised.
Thomas P.M. Barnett - "What our 'lost year' in Iraq ends up costing America"
Counting the costs of disconnecting from the strategic and grand strategic levels of war in Iraq.
Below A Rare Photograph Of A Barnett Ancestor Engaging in Grand Strategy:
Wow - seems like I just did this....
Swedish Meatballs Confidential - "Financial Warfare 101"
Generally, governments do more economic damage to themselves through bad fiscal, regulatory and monetary policies than they could ever suffer through international sanctions or sabotage, but mucking around with market instruments might be a sharp blow to the solar plexus. Beware feedback loops, however.
Complexity and Social Networking Blog -"Campaign contributions and the network of hedgers"
Mapping the California "Big Donors" who are hedging between Obama and Clinton. Tailor made for the political geek.
Haft of the Spear - "everything old is new again"
A depressing political signal, I agree. Hopefully, we'll be pleasantly surprised.
Thomas P.M. Barnett - "What our 'lost year' in Iraq ends up costing America"
Counting the costs of disconnecting from the strategic and grand strategic levels of war in Iraq.
Below A Rare Photograph Of A Barnett Ancestor Engaging in Grand Strategy:
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 7:40 AM 0 comments
Monday, September 10, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Top Billing! SWJ Blog - "General Petraeus / Ambassador Crocker - Boots on the Ground Assessment"
Dave and Bill should be thanked - the post includes access to the full transcript and briefing slides. How many bloggers in the next few days are going to bother reading in full before launching into their pre-scripted ( and largely cocked up) talking points ?
Co-Top Billing! CKR - "The Presidential Candidates’ Foreign Policy Statements: Early Observations" plus "The Presidential Candidates’ Foreign Policy Statements: Rudolph Giuliani" and "The Presidential Candidates’ Foreign Policy Statements: John Edwards"
Kudos to Cheryl Rofer for the heavy lifting on this important series.
Callimachus - "Contemptible"
I never liked Brian De Palma anyway. Overrated ripoff artist at his best.
Col. Pat Lang - "Petraeus and Crocker - Interesting "
The colonel gives his " old hand" take on the report testimony
Nonpartisan - "9/11: The Mouse that Roared "
NP, the motive force behind ProgressiveHistorians blog, writes from the Left in the first of a 9/11 series, with a critique of Orson Scott Card (which will interest some readers here) and he draws on the actuarial argument about terrorism risk assessment ( also of interest).
Soob - "The Other Long War "
Nice post. I'd say bite the bullet and decriminalize. Addicts will then be a public health issue but the global revenue flows of narcotics trafficking will no longer be a national security issue.
Steve DeAngelis -"Explaining Development-in-a-Box™"
Required reading for understanding the evolution of the Sys-Admin spectrum.
That's it!
Top Billing! SWJ Blog - "General Petraeus / Ambassador Crocker - Boots on the Ground Assessment"
Dave and Bill should be thanked - the post includes access to the full transcript and briefing slides. How many bloggers in the next few days are going to bother reading in full before launching into their pre-scripted ( and largely cocked up) talking points ?
Co-Top Billing! CKR - "The Presidential Candidates’ Foreign Policy Statements: Early Observations" plus "The Presidential Candidates’ Foreign Policy Statements: Rudolph Giuliani" and "The Presidential Candidates’ Foreign Policy Statements: John Edwards"
Kudos to Cheryl Rofer for the heavy lifting on this important series.
Callimachus - "Contemptible"
I never liked Brian De Palma anyway. Overrated ripoff artist at his best.
Col. Pat Lang - "Petraeus and Crocker - Interesting "
The colonel gives his " old hand" take on the report testimony
Nonpartisan - "9/11: The Mouse that Roared "
NP, the motive force behind ProgressiveHistorians blog, writes from the Left in the first of a 9/11 series, with a critique of Orson Scott Card (which will interest some readers here) and he draws on the actuarial argument about terrorism risk assessment ( also of interest).
Soob - "The Other Long War "
Nice post. I'd say bite the bullet and decriminalize. Addicts will then be a public health issue but the global revenue flows of narcotics trafficking will no longer be a national security issue.
Steve DeAngelis -"Explaining Development-in-a-Box™"
Required reading for understanding the evolution of the Sys-Admin spectrum.
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 6:42 PM 9 comments
Monday, September 03, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
An unusually high quality selection - any of them in a normal week would merit consideration for the "top billing!" designation. An embarrassment of riches!
The actual winner of the title is Art Hutchinson of Mapping Strategy, for intellectual firepower on a topic that is generally misunderstood:
Top Billing! Art Hutchinson - "What Can and Cannot Be Predicted (and Thoughts On Telling the Difference)" (Hat tip to Wiggins at OSD )
Swedish Meatballs Confidential -"Perception Management Fur Alles - Dones, Doings and To-Do's"
John Robb - "UNLEASHING THE DOGS OF WAR"
Dave Schuler - "Gripes About Public Discourse"
Fabius Maximus - "News from the Front: America’s military has mastered 4GW!Part II of a Series"
Dave Davison - "Paul Saffo - Mapping the Cone of Uncertainty "
Steve DeAngelis - "America Remains in the Broadband Slow Lane" and "WiMAX and the Evernet"
Ross Mayfield - "Decoupling Decision Rights and Decentralization"
Dr. Chet Richards and Maj. Don Vandergriff - "Summary Report
2007 Boyd Conference"
Garr Reynolds - "The creativity imperative: nurturing what is our nature"
I also endorse the video clip of thought leader Tony Buzan, featured by Garr ( Dan of tdaxp, Don Vandergriff, if you happen to read this, you two in particular should view the segment)
An unusually high quality selection - any of them in a normal week would merit consideration for the "top billing!" designation. An embarrassment of riches!
The actual winner of the title is Art Hutchinson of Mapping Strategy, for intellectual firepower on a topic that is generally misunderstood:
Top Billing! Art Hutchinson - "What Can and Cannot Be Predicted (and Thoughts On Telling the Difference)" (Hat tip to Wiggins at OSD )
Swedish Meatballs Confidential -"Perception Management Fur Alles - Dones, Doings and To-Do's"
John Robb - "UNLEASHING THE DOGS OF WAR"
Dave Schuler - "Gripes About Public Discourse"
Fabius Maximus - "News from the Front: America’s military has mastered 4GW!Part II of a Series"
Dave Davison - "Paul Saffo - Mapping the Cone of Uncertainty "
Steve DeAngelis - "America Remains in the Broadband Slow Lane" and "WiMAX and the Evernet"
Ross Mayfield - "Decoupling Decision Rights and Decentralization"
Dr. Chet Richards and Maj. Don Vandergriff - "Summary Report
2007 Boyd Conference"
Garr Reynolds - "The creativity imperative: nurturing what is our nature"
I also endorse the video clip of thought leader Tony Buzan, featured by Garr ( Dan of tdaxp, Don Vandergriff, if you happen to read this, you two in particular should view the segment)
Labels: recommended reading, recommended viewing
¶ 7:56 AM 0 comments
Sunday, August 26, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Fast and dirty....
Dan of tdaxp - "The Diplomatic Surge We Need"
Cognitive Daily - "Why are visual memories so vivid when visual memory is so limited?"
BusinessPundit -" Clustered Social Networks Lead to Company Innovation"
Coming Anarchy -"The Human Footprint on Earth"
Opposed System Design - "More Gibson Reading" and "Strategy is Hard, Process is Easy"
That's it!
Fast and dirty....
Dan of tdaxp - "The Diplomatic Surge We Need"
Cognitive Daily - "Why are visual memories so vivid when visual memory is so limited?"
BusinessPundit -" Clustered Social Networks Lead to Company Innovation"
Coming Anarchy -"The Human Footprint on Earth"
Opposed System Design - "More Gibson Reading" and "Strategy is Hard, Process is Easy"
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 8:48 PM 2 comments
Sunday, August 19, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Top Billing! Bruce Kesler at Democracy Project - "Congress: Lawfare Vs. Warfare "
Jason at Armchair Generalist - "William Gibson's Spook Country" and "Casual Fridays review of John Robb's Brave New War.
Dr. Sam Crane at The Useless Tree - "Childhood"
CKR at Whirledview -"The Bloggers Develop US Nuclear Policy" (More on this later....)
Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett - "Email: exception on Iran" and "More Iran email"
Max Boot at Contentions - "Giuliani vs. Edwards"
Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen - "Interconnectedness and "becoming the Buddha"
SWJ Blog - "Strategist Behind War Gains"
Studies in Intelligence - "The Intelligence Community's Neglect of Strategic Intelligence "
Der Spiegel - "Hope and Despair in Divided Iraq" ( Hat tip to CavGuy at The SWC)
PARAMETERS - “Iran and the United States: The Emerging Security Paradigm in the Middle East” (PDF) by Gawdat Bahgat and "Epochal Change: War Over Social and Political Organization " by Dr. Robert J. Bunker
The Jamestown Foundation - "The Father of the Taliban: An Interview with Maulana Sami ul-Haq"
SEED - "Rise of RoboEthics: Grappling with the implications of an artificially intelligent culture"
ScienceDaily -"Cognitive Revolution: Integrating Computing, Nanotech, Simulation And You"
That's it !
Top Billing! Bruce Kesler at Democracy Project - "Congress: Lawfare Vs. Warfare "
Jason at Armchair Generalist - "William Gibson's Spook Country" and "Casual Fridays review of John Robb's Brave New War.
Dr. Sam Crane at The Useless Tree - "Childhood"
CKR at Whirledview -"The Bloggers Develop US Nuclear Policy" (More on this later....)
Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett - "Email: exception on Iran" and "More Iran email"
Max Boot at Contentions - "Giuliani vs. Edwards"
Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen - "Interconnectedness and "becoming the Buddha"
SWJ Blog - "Strategist Behind War Gains"
Studies in Intelligence - "The Intelligence Community's Neglect of Strategic Intelligence "
Der Spiegel - "Hope and Despair in Divided Iraq" ( Hat tip to CavGuy at The SWC)
PARAMETERS - “Iran and the United States: The Emerging Security Paradigm in the Middle East” (PDF) by Gawdat Bahgat and "Epochal Change: War Over Social and Political Organization " by Dr. Robert J. Bunker
The Jamestown Foundation - "The Father of the Taliban: An Interview with Maulana Sami ul-Haq"
SEED - "Rise of RoboEthics: Grappling with the implications of an artificially intelligent culture"
ScienceDaily -"Cognitive Revolution: Integrating Computing, Nanotech, Simulation And You"
That's it !
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 6:41 PM 0 comments
Sunday, August 12, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Going to open with the center-Left today and close with the center-Right.
Top Billing!: CKR at Whirledview -"The Necessity of the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent: A White Paper"
This post, which grew out of a discussion with Cernig at The Newshoggers, is important because Cheryl Rofer brings professional experience in nuclear arms issues to the table. She also identifies serious weaknesses in the analytical approach used by the authors of the white paper. I will have further commentary about the state of American nuclear deterrence in a later post.
Cernig at The Newshoggers - "What's the U.S. Nuclear Policy? "
Here Cernig responds to CKR's post and moves into the realm of specific proliferation and nuclear security problem states like Pakistan.
Dr. Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - "Concert of Democracies: the liberal internationalist case"
Dr. Nexon critiques both Ivo Daalder's and Robert Kagan's "Concert of Democracies" opinion-editorial and the bitter Left-blogospheric reaction it incurred, by laying out a liberal case for a democratic club ( note to self: I should critique this as well).
The fact that this case has to be laid out at all - and probably is regarded as counterintuitive by Leftist bloggers, if not openly scorned - demonstrates how far the American left has wandered away from the values of traditional American liberalism as expounded by people like Adlai Stevenson or Franklin Roosevelt ( how would the left blogosphere have greeted the Atlantic Charter ?).
Matt at MountainRunner - "Two surveys on robots and war"
Matt following up on his prior research post on robotics and warfare.
Dave Dilegge at SWJ Blog - "Words of Wisdom - Let the Warfighters Focus on the Real Issues"
An officer in Iraq weighs in on the antics of the media, the blogosphere and one Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp.
Rick Moran at Right Wing Nuthouse - "IS THIS HEAVEN? NO. IT’S IOWA"
I have not followed the GOP race with much attention to detail but Rick has and he knows his inside baseball. Laboring under an incumbent president of their own party, far from election day, makes it difficult for the Republican candidates to get the same media splash as their Democratic counterparts. Or money, for that matter.
Colonel Austin Bay - "Quick US Exit From Iraq: Seven Scenarios"
A staccato burst of Iraqi end games from a journalist/novelist/soldiering blogfriend.
That's it!
Going to open with the center-Left today and close with the center-Right.
Top Billing!: CKR at Whirledview -"The Necessity of the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent: A White Paper"
This post, which grew out of a discussion with Cernig at The Newshoggers, is important because Cheryl Rofer brings professional experience in nuclear arms issues to the table. She also identifies serious weaknesses in the analytical approach used by the authors of the white paper. I will have further commentary about the state of American nuclear deterrence in a later post.
Cernig at The Newshoggers - "What's the U.S. Nuclear Policy? "
Here Cernig responds to CKR's post and moves into the realm of specific proliferation and nuclear security problem states like Pakistan.
Dr. Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - "Concert of Democracies: the liberal internationalist case"
Dr. Nexon critiques both Ivo Daalder's and Robert Kagan's "Concert of Democracies" opinion-editorial and the bitter Left-blogospheric reaction it incurred, by laying out a liberal case for a democratic club ( note to self: I should critique this as well).
The fact that this case has to be laid out at all - and probably is regarded as counterintuitive by Leftist bloggers, if not openly scorned - demonstrates how far the American left has wandered away from the values of traditional American liberalism as expounded by people like Adlai Stevenson or Franklin Roosevelt ( how would the left blogosphere have greeted the Atlantic Charter ?).
Matt at MountainRunner - "Two surveys on robots and war"
Matt following up on his prior research post on robotics and warfare.
Dave Dilegge at SWJ Blog - "Words of Wisdom - Let the Warfighters Focus on the Real Issues"
An officer in Iraq weighs in on the antics of the media, the blogosphere and one Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp.
Rick Moran at Right Wing Nuthouse - "IS THIS HEAVEN? NO. IT’S IOWA"
I have not followed the GOP race with much attention to detail but Rick has and he knows his inside baseball. Laboring under an incumbent president of their own party, far from election day, makes it difficult for the Republican candidates to get the same media splash as their Democratic counterparts. Or money, for that matter.
Colonel Austin Bay - "Quick US Exit From Iraq: Seven Scenarios"
A staccato burst of Iraqi end games from a journalist/novelist/soldiering blogfriend.
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 7:51 AM 2 comments
Sunday, August 05, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
First, a hearty congratulations to Curtis Gale Weeks for expanding his impressive stable of bloggers at Dreaming 5GW. In addition to himself, Arherring, Purpleslog and Dan of tdaxp we will now enjoy the writing of Shane Deichman and subadei. An excellent combination!
Frank Hoffman at SWJ Blog - " The Proverbial Contest"
Soob - " Barack's World"
The Strategist - " The White Man's Anger"
Colonel W. Patrick Lang - "O'Hanlon, Pollack and Bernard Fall"
AFJ Roundtable - "What's America's grand plan?"
That's it!
First, a hearty congratulations to Curtis Gale Weeks for expanding his impressive stable of bloggers at Dreaming 5GW. In addition to himself, Arherring, Purpleslog and Dan of tdaxp we will now enjoy the writing of Shane Deichman and subadei. An excellent combination!
Frank Hoffman at SWJ Blog - " The Proverbial Contest"
Soob - " Barack's World"
The Strategist - " The White Man's Anger"
Colonel W. Patrick Lang - "O'Hanlon, Pollack and Bernard Fall"
AFJ Roundtable - "What's America's grand plan?"
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 7:05 AM 2 comments
Sunday, July 29, 2007
BOOKS ARE SIGNPOSTS ON THE ROAD OF LIFE
"I cannot live without books"
- Thomas Jefferson
First, I'd like to thank Dr. Barnett and Dan of tdaxp for the kind remarks and links the past few days. Both men have often provoked me to new thoughts or reconsidered views and it is nice to know that I can return the favor on occasion.
Tom had a post Sunday entitled " Why the grand strategist/visionary needs the discipline of books" that echoed something I've long believed. Something Lexington Green, in his enviably book-lined home, probably would agree with,
a) First, there's really no substitute for a good "hard" book.
b) Fiction becomes a guilty pleasure.
Perhaps, the physicists and mathematicians among us ( Von, Shane, Wiggins) will put a word in for the elegance of the mathematical equation, but for me, the supremacy of the book reigns without a rival. As I reflect on the evolution of my thinking as a teen and an adult, inevitably there are many books and a handful of people who leap to mind. Many, many, books and very, very, few people.
As much as I love history, the best reading I have done, in terms of determined, sustained, thought, involved philosophy and economics - Aristotle, Plato, Marx, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Keynes, Galbraith, Von Mises, Von Hayek, Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Machiaveli, Kuhn -because it trained my mind to accept the discipline of formal logic. Logic is invaluable for a rational mind but wisdom is discerning logic's limitations of functioning within paradigms and that the paradigms themselves are tools for the mind to understand a part of reality; and not one of these paradigms is sufficient to encompass the whole. You have to synthesize, learn, adapt - there is no point at which you " rest" or become complacent with your expertise.
The joy is in the journey and not in the destination.
"I cannot live without books"
- Thomas Jefferson
First, I'd like to thank Dr. Barnett and Dan of tdaxp for the kind remarks and links the past few days. Both men have often provoked me to new thoughts or reconsidered views and it is nice to know that I can return the favor on occasion.
Tom had a post Sunday entitled " Why the grand strategist/visionary needs the discipline of books" that echoed something I've long believed. Something Lexington Green, in his enviably book-lined home, probably would agree with,
a) First, there's really no substitute for a good "hard" book.
b) Fiction becomes a guilty pleasure.
Perhaps, the physicists and mathematicians among us ( Von, Shane, Wiggins) will put a word in for the elegance of the mathematical equation, but for me, the supremacy of the book reigns without a rival. As I reflect on the evolution of my thinking as a teen and an adult, inevitably there are many books and a handful of people who leap to mind. Many, many, books and very, very, few people.
As much as I love history, the best reading I have done, in terms of determined, sustained, thought, involved philosophy and economics - Aristotle, Plato, Marx, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Keynes, Galbraith, Von Mises, Von Hayek, Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Machiaveli, Kuhn -because it trained my mind to accept the discipline of formal logic. Logic is invaluable for a rational mind but wisdom is discerning logic's limitations of functioning within paradigms and that the paradigms themselves are tools for the mind to understand a part of reality; and not one of these paradigms is sufficient to encompass the whole. You have to synthesize, learn, adapt - there is no point at which you " rest" or become complacent with your expertise.
The joy is in the journey and not in the destination.
Labels: barnett, book, cognition, economics, education, horizontal thinking, personal, philosophy, recommended reading, tdaxp
¶ 9:27 PM 7 comments
Saturday, July 28, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
The nice thing about falling behind on this feature is that good material builds up. Hoo-HA!
Thomas P.M. Barnett - " Managing China's Ascent"
Books are intellectual "auctoritas". The blog is fun. Syndication is nice but op-eds in a few print outlets - The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report - are the big time influencers with the old line establishment. Nice work Tom!
Dan of tdaxp - "Dreaming 5GW"
I was certain that Boyd 2007 would spark a new series out of Dan; here he will delve into the intuitive conflict of fifth generation warfare.
Fabius Maximus - "America takes another step towards the “Long War”Part I"
Fabius draws a contrast with the start of the Cold War to question some of the operative premises of the GWOT. There is also a sustained critique of the COIN philosophy of LTC. David Kilcullen.
1 Raindrop - "William Gibson Thinks You Should Go to Metricon"
Gunnar is one of those guys who deserves to have me link to him more often than I do, a true expert in IT security as well as a Gibson fan ( seems to be a common thread among Zenpundit readers; I am halfway through Neuromancer, my first Gibson read)
Daniel Nexon - "Toward a neo-neo-Reaganite foreign policy "
Dr. Nexon, much in demand for Harry Potter interviews these days, critiques Donald Kagan's grasp of grand strategy, giving both praise and criticism. I like the term "neo-neo-Reganite" too - something to be said for reviving the most effective aspects of Reagan foreign policy. :O)
William Lind - "How to Win in Iraq"
A number of readers, including Morgan, have urged that I read Lind's piece. As someone who grew up reading Ayn Rand, Russell Kirk, Albert Jay Nock, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, it's weird for me to see a genuine paleoconservative like Bill Lind enunciating a grand strategy of conserving the state. Yet the global environment has changed and the Burkean roots of conservatism are finding political traction, at least in some quarters.
PARAMETERS -"A Social Network Approach to Understanding an Insurgency " by Brian Reed
Particularly appropriate paradigm for tribal societies where networks come " hard wired" by genetics as well as by social, political and economic choices.
That's it!
The nice thing about falling behind on this feature is that good material builds up. Hoo-HA!
Thomas P.M. Barnett - " Managing China's Ascent"
Books are intellectual "auctoritas". The blog is fun. Syndication is nice but op-eds in a few print outlets - The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report - are the big time influencers with the old line establishment. Nice work Tom!
Dan of tdaxp - "Dreaming 5GW"
I was certain that Boyd 2007 would spark a new series out of Dan; here he will delve into the intuitive conflict of fifth generation warfare.
Fabius Maximus - "America takes another step towards the “Long War”Part I"
Fabius draws a contrast with the start of the Cold War to question some of the operative premises of the GWOT. There is also a sustained critique of the COIN philosophy of LTC. David Kilcullen.
1 Raindrop - "William Gibson Thinks You Should Go to Metricon"
Gunnar is one of those guys who deserves to have me link to him more often than I do, a true expert in IT security as well as a Gibson fan ( seems to be a common thread among Zenpundit readers; I am halfway through Neuromancer, my first Gibson read)
Daniel Nexon - "Toward a neo-neo-Reaganite foreign policy "
Dr. Nexon, much in demand for Harry Potter interviews these days, critiques Donald Kagan's grasp of grand strategy, giving both praise and criticism. I like the term "neo-neo-Reganite" too - something to be said for reviving the most effective aspects of Reagan foreign policy. :O)
William Lind - "How to Win in Iraq"
A number of readers, including Morgan, have urged that I read Lind's piece. As someone who grew up reading Ayn Rand, Russell Kirk, Albert Jay Nock, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, it's weird for me to see a genuine paleoconservative like Bill Lind enunciating a grand strategy of conserving the state. Yet the global environment has changed and the Burkean roots of conservatism are finding political traction, at least in some quarters.
PARAMETERS -"A Social Network Approach to Understanding an Insurgency " by Brian Reed
Particularly appropriate paradigm for tribal societies where networks come " hard wired" by genetics as well as by social, political and economic choices.
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 12:00 AM 7 comments
Thursday, July 19, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Chirol - " What Kind of Multilateralism?"
Chicago Boyz - Shannon - "Stateless Actors: Myths of 4G Warfare Part I"
Danger Room - "Pentagon Plots Digital "Crystal Ball" to "See the Future" in Battle"
Hat tip to Sean. This one will give everyone at DNI a " don't know whether to laugh or cry" moment.
Hey look...a lightning gun ! I want one! (hat tip Danger Room)
Chirol - " What Kind of Multilateralism?"
Chicago Boyz - Shannon - "Stateless Actors: Myths of 4G Warfare Part I"
Danger Room - "Pentagon Plots Digital "Crystal Ball" to "See the Future" in Battle"
Hat tip to Sean. This one will give everyone at DNI a " don't know whether to laugh or cry" moment.
Hey look...a lightning gun ! I want one! (hat tip Danger Room)
Labels: recommended reading, recommended viewing
¶ 7:29 PM 1 comments
Sunday, July 08, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
I return, fairly sunburnt and weary, from the wedding of a close friend but, now, it is time to blog ! Starting with recommended reading:
RealClear Politics - "The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers"
H-Diplo Op-Ed "Whither Iraq? A Commentary for Americans” by Dr. Sally Marks
Edge Perspectives - "Unanswered Questions at Supernova 2007"
Thoughts Illustrated - "Trust Metrics for Social Networks "
Thomas P.M. Barnett - "Army America needs versus the wars Americans prefer to wage"
Pre-Boyd 2007 picks:
John Robb -"A PRIVATE SECTOR WAR IN IRAQ?" and "JOURNAL: Corporate Armies in Russia"
Dan of tdaxp - "The Importance of 5GW" and "Describing the Military-Industrial-Sysadmin-Complex: How We Will Win the 5GW to Shrink the Gap"
Armchair Generalist - "Overplaying The Bioterrorist Threat"
While I do not agree with AG's politics, his blog is excellent, particularly on CBW issues.
SWJ Blog - Josh Manchester's "Counterinsurgents Should Consider A "Fabrication Cell" and Bing West's "Insurgent Media vs. The Strongest Tribe".
Small Wars Journal publisher Bill Nagl has also issued a call for papers. I think we should take this seriously; there are many excellent ideas kicked around in rough form on listservs, on SWC threads and on blogs that are never carried downfield and get developed into a peer-reviewed or policy journal level of quality. That's a shame.
Admittedly, I'm as guilty of this as anyone else, but let us, in the aftermath of Boyd 2007, try to give back by making a formal submission in the arena of ideas. If our work doesn't make the cut, fine, at least we tried to give something back. Consider it.
That's it
I return, fairly sunburnt and weary, from the wedding of a close friend but, now, it is time to blog ! Starting with recommended reading:
RealClear Politics - "The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers"
H-Diplo Op-Ed "Whither Iraq? A Commentary for Americans” by Dr. Sally Marks
Edge Perspectives - "Unanswered Questions at Supernova 2007"
Thoughts Illustrated - "Trust Metrics for Social Networks "
Thomas P.M. Barnett - "Army America needs versus the wars Americans prefer to wage"
Pre-Boyd 2007 picks:
John Robb -"A PRIVATE SECTOR WAR IN IRAQ?" and "JOURNAL: Corporate Armies in Russia"
Dan of tdaxp - "The Importance of 5GW" and "Describing the Military-Industrial-Sysadmin-Complex: How We Will Win the 5GW to Shrink the Gap"
Armchair Generalist - "Overplaying The Bioterrorist Threat"
While I do not agree with AG's politics, his blog is excellent, particularly on CBW issues.
SWJ Blog - Josh Manchester's "Counterinsurgents Should Consider A "Fabrication Cell" and Bing West's "Insurgent Media vs. The Strongest Tribe".
Small Wars Journal publisher Bill Nagl has also issued a call for papers. I think we should take this seriously; there are many excellent ideas kicked around in rough form on listservs, on SWC threads and on blogs that are never carried downfield and get developed into a peer-reviewed or policy journal level of quality. That's a shame.
Admittedly, I'm as guilty of this as anyone else, but let us, in the aftermath of Boyd 2007, try to give back by making a formal submission in the arena of ideas. If our work doesn't make the cut, fine, at least we tried to give something back. Consider it.
That's it
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 7:36 PM 1 comments
Sunday, July 01, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
Curzon has a neat two-parter up, "Failed States, Part 1:Best And Worst "and" Part 2:How Instability Spreads".
Steve DeAngelis expands on the innovation/creativity thread ( I'm falling behind!!!) with "The Medici Effect and New Design"
At TCS, James H. Joyner, Jr interviews John Robb about Brave New War .
Complexity and Social Networks Blog offers two good ones, "Social-network sites give businesses ideas for new collaboration" and "Bits, Bullets, and the Modern State".
Dr. Frans Osinga at DNI - "On Boyd, Bin Laden, and Fourth Generation Warfare as String Theory" (PDF). The good Colonel Osinga is a serious contender for the ultimate mil theory championship with that title.
Scientific American on the neuroscience of irrational economic decision-making and "The Roots Of Punishment".
Kent's Imperative on "Politicization and the leak culture".
That's it!
Curzon has a neat two-parter up, "Failed States, Part 1:Best And Worst "and" Part 2:How Instability Spreads".
Steve DeAngelis expands on the innovation/creativity thread ( I'm falling behind!!!) with "The Medici Effect and New Design"
At TCS, James H. Joyner, Jr interviews John Robb about Brave New War .
Complexity and Social Networks Blog offers two good ones, "Social-network sites give businesses ideas for new collaboration" and "Bits, Bullets, and the Modern State".
Dr. Frans Osinga at DNI - "On Boyd, Bin Laden, and Fourth Generation Warfare as String Theory" (PDF). The good Colonel Osinga is a serious contender for the ultimate mil theory championship with that title.
Scientific American on the neuroscience of irrational economic decision-making and "The Roots Of Punishment".
Kent's Imperative on "Politicization and the leak culture".
That's it!
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 12:01 AM 0 comments
Sunday, June 10, 2007
RECOMMENDED READING
A Sunday line-up.
Ideas - "Loaded Dice: How to bias research"
Secrecy News - "ODNI Document Suggests a Larger Intelligence Budget"
In From The Cold - "Mr. Putin's Not-So-Serious Offer"
Middle East Perspectives -"New Chairman of the Joint Chiefs "
Pacific Empire - "How to overthrow your government"
Duck of Minerva - "Rome on the Potomac"
That's it.
A Sunday line-up.
Ideas - "Loaded Dice: How to bias research"
Secrecy News - "ODNI Document Suggests a Larger Intelligence Budget"
In From The Cold - "Mr. Putin's Not-So-Serious Offer"
Middle East Perspectives -"New Chairman of the Joint Chiefs "
Pacific Empire - "How to overthrow your government"
Duck of Minerva - "Rome on the Potomac"
That's it.
Labels: recommended reading
¶ 2:25 PM 0 comments
