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Going deeper: strategy, tactics, operations2 comments

andreaskluth wrote 6 months ago: If you’re still into this emerging little sub-series on strategy and Clausewitz, read Kenneth … more →

Tags: Failure, Success!, Clausewitz, Kenneth Payne, Strategy, Tactics, TeD

Pessimism Porn?20 comments

redtory wrote 7 months ago: ABC’s Dan Harris is fixated on “a little something called pessimism porn.” According to Harris it’s … more →

Tags: Economy, media, Gérald Celente, Pessimism Porn, peter schiff

What Tom Barnett should have told Congress about America's 21st century Navy21 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 8 months ago: Thomas Barnett is one of our foremost geopolitical visionaries, so his presentations are always wort … more →

Tags: Grand Strategy, Our Military, chet richards, Defense, defensive war, Demographics, Douglas Macgregor, if we can keep it, Spengler

Tom Barnett's New Book

Chris Dierkes wrote 11 months ago: Barnett’s Trilogy is now complete.  The link here provides the chapter headings for his new bo … more →

Tags: Politics, long war, Economics, Foreign Development, Law, China, Grand Strategy, The Great Powers

Thomas Barnett2 comments

paulettepaterson wrote 1 year ago:   It’s safe to say that the first arrival in Australia related to us is Thomas Barnett, one of the o … more →

Tags: Family History, Convict Couches, Ellen Corkery, Convicts, , Portland (Ship)

Skypecast: Integral Politics (Audio Content)

Chris Dierkes wrote 1 year ago: integral-politics-pt1 Click the link above for a discussion of integral politics between Scott and I … more →

Tags: Politics, integral, iraq, long war, Economics, Foreign Development, Foreign Affairs, Law, Canada

Another brilliant metaphor by Tom Barnett, helping us to more clearly see our changing world3 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: Tom Barnett is one of our leading geopolitical visionaries, whose analysis helps us more clearly see … more →

Tags: Post-WWII era over?, rule-sets

A powerful weapon, at the sight of which we should tremble and our enemies rejoice7 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: Summary: This is a brief case study of a hubris and Powerpoint. Powerpoint is a deadly weapon, which … more →

Tags: Geopolitical News, Afghanistan War, Social Engineering, doug saunders, christopher kolenda, space shuttle columbia, Edward Tufte, System administrators

Visionaries point the way to success in the age of 4GW4 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: After WWII we entered the age in which 4GW is the primary mode of warfare.  In response first come a … more →

Tags: Grand Strategy, 4 GW, 4GW, Carl Sagan, Visionaries

Will we bomb Iran, now that Admiral Fallon is gone?9 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: The Internet is our collective mind made visible, more so than print, radio, and television.  It all … more →

Tags: Our Military, War with Iran, Internet's impacts, long war, William Fallon, President Bush, galrahn, Information Dissemination, Internet

Resigned to Reality

johnibii wrote 1 year ago: By Oliver North The Washington Times March 16, 2008 Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York resigned this … more →

Tags: President, White House, bush, iraq, Iran, baghdad, David Petraeus, Iranian, middle east

Valuable new insights about the culture of war... a preview31 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: Western writers about military and political theory sees war as a largely rational activity, at leas … more →

Tags: 4 GW, 4GW, Clausewitz, martin van creveld, william kristol, John Keegan, culture of war, history of warfare

Geopolitical implications of the current economic downturn33 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: Summary:  How will this recession end?  My guess:  with re-balancing of the global economy and a dec … more →

Tags: Post-WWII era over?, History, john maynard keynes, Keynesian, neo-keynesian, Joseph Stiglitz, Austrian economics, American Empire, Paul Kennedy

Barnett: The Brief

Chris Dierkes wrote 1 year ago: This is the brief on the Pentagon’s New Map and a Blueprint for Action  that Thomas Barnett ha … more →

Tags: Politics, integral, long war, The Pentagon's New Map

Arrows in the Eagle's claw - solutions to 4GW10 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 2 years ago: This series describes the various types of solutions to modern warfare, herein called fourth generat … more →

Tags: America's Long War, Grand Strategy, 4 GW, 4GW, autulio echevarria, chet richards, martin van creveld, David Kilcullen, william lind

Why the Black Swan, Soob?6 comments

subadei wrote 2 years ago: Initially this post was to illustrate the fact that the Black Swan conflation with 5GW was fueled by … more →

Tags: dreaming 5gw, adrian, politics and soccer, arherring, BFA, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Barnett and Mann on China6 comments

subadei wrote 2 years ago: Via Simulated Laughter and New Yorker in DC this debate about China between T. Barnett and J. Mann. … more →

Tags: China, james mann

More on Brave New War2 comments

subadei wrote 2 years ago: Some more reviews of BNW: Thoughts on Brave New War: Adam at Simulated Laughter Brave New War part I … more →

Tags: tdaxp, John Robb, coming anarchy, zenpundit, simulated laughter, the strategist, global guerrillas, Ed Cone, chet richards

Bruises and other discolorations

littlewhiteearbuds wrote 2 years ago: Links galore! First, those of you wondering how the Lindstrom live PA went, my friend Tyler wrote it … more →

Tags: lindstrom, erol alkan, Techno, Minimal, house, Electro, philip sherburne, tennishero, jesse somfay


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