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Sunday, December 17th, 2006

RECOMMENDED READING

Busy day in the non-blogosphere world for me. Hope to be online later tonight but here are some fast and furious recommendations, Iraq themed:

Dave Schuler’s Colloquium –Directions on Iraq : Day 2 receives top billing.

The Small Wars Council – ” Victory in Iraq” thread.

Colonel Pat Lang at Sic Semper Tyrannis -“Stalingrad on the Tigris? “

Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett -” The freeze out of the Iraq Study Group seems complete:

William Lind at DNI – ” Knocking Opportunity

John Robb – ” The Darwin Principle

Victor Davis Hanson – “War-Making and the Machines of War

Parenthetical aside: Hanson is a historian whose work I genuinely enjoy reading, but nevertheless, find at times to be irritating. It’s fine to take 4GW and Network-centric Warfare to task as he has done on various occasions, but it would really be helpful if Hanson first took the time to understand what the hell they actually were. Just a thought.

Wiggins at Opposed System Design – “Iraq, Vietnam and Legacies

Dr. David Kaiser at History Unfolding -” Confirmation from Washington

That’s it!

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

THE MYSPACE FOR BIBLIOMANIACS

Courtesy of tech business guru Dave Davison of Thoughts Illustrated, I encourage you to check out Shelfari – a new social networking site for serious readers. I began constructing “my shelf” this morning, though despite Shelfari’s user-friendly app it is going to take some time to get even a reasonable percentage of my collection up online, given the volume of books.

Tailor made for a number of my blogfriends. :O)


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