Recommended Reading

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Where action is the attraction….

Top Billing! HG’s World –The Aftermath of the “Global War on Terror”

Historyguy99 surveys and comments on the multisite blogospheric discussion of civil-military relations prompted in part, by:

Richard H. Kohn – Coming Soon: A Crisis in Civil-Military Relations at World Affairs Journal ( Hat tip SWJ Blog)

This was the “must-read” article of the week so if you have not read it, here it is.

Steve Gillmor – Calming Up

Found this through Twitter after a few of Gillmor’s big wheel  Web 2.0 compadres began “following” me as well as John Robb and others in my blogging circle. An analytical riff by Gillmor on the intersection of social media platforms, high tech business, Dave Winer’s projections for Twitter, conversation among early adapters and so on. While I think there is an underlying discourse in there of content and modalities (“medium is the message”) I gravitated to it initially because of this section:

“Sorry, but it just ain’t so. We’re living in one of the most disruptive and ongoing storms of innovation we’ve ever not fully comprehended in realtime, and you only have to watch the fear and emotion spilling all over the highway to get a sense of the power of what is going on just off-stage. Twitter may appear to be a solution in search of a problem, or an eyeball machine with no business model, or just the latest rendering of high school for the techno-elite – but the panic you can smell means something”

An OODA Loop “mismatch”.

Wilsonianism debated: H-Diplo held a roundtable discussion  (PDF) on historian Robert Tucker’s Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America’s Neutrality, 1914-1917  while Jeremy Young defends Woodrow Wilson’s reputation at Progressive Historians.

Right-wing Nuthouse –AMERICA’S SHAME

Rick Moran takes the administration and his fellow conservative bloggers to task on the John Yoo toture memo. I met Rick once, as he lives not all that far up the road from me and he struck me at the time as an eminently reasonable, “common sense” guy and mainstream “Reagan Republican”. His post only confirms my opinion.

Nick Carr – Follow the neurons

On neuromarketing.

In from the Cold – The Real Obstacle to Missile Defense in Europe

Former Spook on the liberal Democrats vs. NATO on missile defense.

That’s it!