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On Unrestricted Warfare
NerveAgent (who, judging from his profile picture, may be an aerial ninja) over at Visions of Empire has a post up on Unrestricted Warfare, a book by two PLA colonels (Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui) th… more →
The Committee of Public Safety
On Unrestricted Warfare
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josephfouche wrote 3 days ago: NerveAgent (who, judging from his profile picture, may be an aerial ninja) over at Visions of Empire … more →
Politics Redux
josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: T. Greer asks: I am curious as to your definitions of “politics” and “policy.” In the original Germa … more →
Afghanistan: The Curse of Being Clever
josephfouche wrote 2 months ago: Live Long and Boogie George W. Bush wasn’t the brightest bulb in the lighting store. But he ha … more →
Assumptions: Complex Adaptive Systems
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Per Howard Bloom: Complex Adaptive System A complex adaptive system is a “dynamic network of many ag … more →
Assumptions: Power
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Power is capacity that can be converted into control. Power Conversion Power is what separates one s … more →
Assumptions: Adaption
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Adaption is the accumulation of changes to yourself and to the outside world that help realize desir … more →
Violence: How Useful. How Sublime
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josephfouche wrote 4 months ago: It’s a dark secret, at least in the decadent West, but violence works. Growing up, I was passi … more →
Tilting At Windmills and Puncturing That Lousy Giant
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josephfouche wrote 4 months ago: Triune Brain To live is to desire. This burning desire originates from the interaction of seven inte … more →
The Bloody Entrails of Deceit
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josephfouche wrote 4 months ago: Taxonomy of Deception Barton Whaley and J. Bowyer Bell discovered they had a shared interest in dece … more →
Measuring National Power
josephfouche wrote 5 months ago: How do you measure national power? A RAND Corporation report entitled Measuring National Power discu … more →
Saga of the Strategic Aggregator
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josephfouche wrote 5 months ago: Lexington Green comments: There are also the further questions of Who is America? And who is having … more →
Stop Digging
josephfouche wrote 7 months ago: In the hole If you’re in a hole, the first thing to do, it is said, is to stop digging. It … more →
War and Culture
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josephfouche wrote 8 months ago: We are all robots. We come into this world as robots, we sleepwalk through life as robots, and we le … more →
Attraction and Repulsion
josephfouche wrote 8 months ago: Howard Bloom, in his book, The Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind, argues that the engine driv … more →
To Thicken the Plot, Add More Plot
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josephfouche wrote 8 months ago: A friend of mine in high school produced a typewritten list of what claimed to be every possible plo … more →
What is War? III
josephfouche wrote 9 months ago: What is war? A reformulation of the last post’s definition: War is a strategy to make the enem … more →
Two States and the Higher Naivete
josephfouche wrote 10 months ago: Vulgar foreign policy realism is an example of what Donald Kagan calls the “higher naivete … more →
The State of Grand Strategy
josephfouche wrote 10 months ago: Col. David Maxwell, U.S. Army, posted an interesting Proposal for a Unifying Strategic Doctrine for … more →
The State of Terminology
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josephfouche wrote 10 months ago: I come not to praise the term “non-state actor” but to bury it. It fails to capture the … more →
