Blogfriends on the Make
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Galrahn of Information Dissemination was interviewed by James Joyner and Dave Schuler at OTB Radio. The interview is approximately an hour. 
OTB Radio – Tonight at 7 Eastern
As usual, Dave Schuler will co-host. We’ll be joined tonight by Raymond Pritchett, who blogs under the pseudonym Galrahn at Information Dissemination and the United States Naval Institute Blog. We’ll talk about the Somali pirates, the state of the U.S. Navy, and the Tea Party Protests.
Tom Barnett has a muscular op-ed piece up in Esquire Magazine that is making some waves:
Inside the War Against Robert Gates
….When it came to selling that paradigm shift, Gates didn’t need to convince the military itself – the ascendant Army
and Marine corps have suffered enough casualties to have learned it the hard way. And quite honestly, Gates needn’t worry about the defense industry’s willingness to follow the money, because Lockheed Martin and L-3 have been snatching up enough blue-chip companies to prove they can spot the Pentagon’s future funding spigots.
Turns out you can find Gates’s biggest antagonists in the halls of Congress, where the battle cry of “Jobs, jobs, jobs!” echoes the military’s growing embrace of funding for the manpower that’ll keep this counter-insurgency movement as successful as it’s become. So even amidst all this fighting and dying – neither of which is likely to slow down any time soon – the American military’s newest struggle seems to come down to one question: whose economic stabilization package matters more?
Read the rest here.
