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A HipBone approach to analysis V: DARPA and storytelling
Tweet This Post[ cross posted from DIME/PMESII ] I seem to be writing some mini-essays that braid together more of the various strands of my interests and thinking than usual – geopolitics and...
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Duel in slow time
Tweet This Post[ by Charles Cameron -- cross-posted from Zenpundit ] In slomo – . as in the slow rotating backseat of a hurtling flipping car – . at that most divine of speeds at which concentration...
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A Lazy Sunday’s Blogging
Tweet This PostFrom a comment that I left here: Human behavior has too many complex variables to be plotted out neatly in graphs and charts and equations, and besides, humans beings lie. To themselves...
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The Tree of Life
Tweet This PostWarning: spoilers, I guess, though with a film like this it’s hard to give anything away so as to really detract from the experience. Maybe a few autobiographical spoilers of my own....
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Plus ça change I
Tweet This Post[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- backstory of Google+ ] . Herrad von Landsberg seems to have corralled seven of his best friends — the Septem Artes Liberales– into his “Hortus...
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Seydlitz89: Politics Requires People (a Response to “War, the Individual,...
Tweet This PostCross-posted from zenpundit.com The following is a post by seydlitz89, a noted Clausewitzian commentator who has participated in three round tables here at Chicago Boyz, and who wanted...
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Historical footnotes to game theory
Tweet This Post[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- philosophy, psychology, history, game theory, dilemma, commons cooperation, analogy, 9/11 ] . I have an interest in game theory that is much like my...
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Carl Prine: recommended reading
Tweet This Post[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- war, reading lists ] . Not exactly delighted by the reading list recently provided by the inbound Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Carl Prine at Line of...
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A Star Trek Utopia? We’re Living in It
Tweet This PostAn era of the conceivable made concrete…And of the casually miraculous. Adrian Veidt, The Watchmen by Allan Moore A while back I found a post by pseudo-intellectual Peter Frase, pulling...
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Thanksgiving 2011: What I’m Thankful For
Tweet This PostWhat am I thankful for? I’m thankful that I can crush my enemies and see them flee before me, that I can take their horses and belongings and hear the lamentations of their women. Okay,...
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Knowledge, Stability, and Black Swans
Tweet This PostThe sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to...
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Book Review: A Terrorist’s Call to Global Jihad
Tweet This Post A Terrorist’s Call to Global Jihad: Deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri’s Islamic Jihad Manifesto by Jim Lacey (Ed.) Cross-posted at zenpundit.com Previously, I read and reviewed Brynjar...
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On “Leverages”
Tweet This PostIn a previous post, I asked a question about leverages in terms of foreign policy: A key–an essential–question on leverages at Abu Muqawama (Dr. Andrew Exum): Where things get tricky is...
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Trees: Phototropic Simplexities
Tweet This Post[ Cross-posted from Zenpundit -- this one's a prose poem: it begins with a statement so tight it needs to be unwound, & unwinds it ] . I wrote this urgently starting when it “woke”...
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Bourgeois Dignity
Tweet This PostI was struck yesterday by a post on Ann Althouse’s blog, and by a Virginia Postrel piece that makes the same point, how wrong Obama was to say “You didn’t build that..” The incident, so...
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Harvey Mansfield on Elections and Democracy
Tweet This PostCross-posted from zenpundit.com Professor Harvey C. Mansfield of Harvard University and a fellow at the Hoover Institution is famous for his scholarship on classical political...
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RERUN–Sleeping with the Enemy
Tweet This Post(originally posted 2/26/10) Why has the western world shown such loss of will in defending itself from radical Islamic terrorism? Why, indeed, do substantial numbers of...
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Paint-by-numbers versus Connect-the-dots
Tweet This PostCitrix CEO Mark Templeton, in his NYT interview, made an interesting point: There are two strategies for your life and career. One is paint-by-numbers and the other is connect-the-dots....
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RERUN–Worth Pondering
Tweet This PostThe seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic. I shall not...
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The Phobia(s) That May Destroy America
Tweet This PostI am continually amazed by the level of fear, contempt, and anger that many educated/urban/upper-middle-class people demonstrate toward Christians and rural people (especially...
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