Recommended Reading
That week went by quickly.
Top Billing! John Arquilla – NYT – “The Coming Swarm”
Arquilla was ahead of the curve long before most other defense intellectuals. Glad to see him getting ink in the top MSM organ. (Hat tip to John)
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Defense News
Exposition of the role of private sector in Sys Admin.
Selil Blog – University systems at a crossroads: Furloughs and funding of futures and fantasies
A superb post by Sam. A must read.
Information Dissemination – Friendly Advice of the Day
Galrahn knows his stuff. I’d really like to see the Pentagon or the Navy hire him for the same reason I think that Matt Armstrong should have an office at the State Department – they can help get things up to speed in terms of communication and message.
John Robb – JOURNAL: The Notre Dame conference
I should have gone to this one, damned sched! John Robb meets Martin van Creveld says it all.
HG’s World – Announcing! The Great Powers Junto Club Reading Group
HG99, himself a historian, is modeling the club after Ben Franklin’s original Junto.
Coming Anarchy – The Post-Nuclear Iran World
Ominous.
TDAXP – Building a Table of Contents for “5GW: The Fifth Generation of War?”
The next Nimble book project from this corner of the blogosphere, edited by Dan of tdaxp.
Counterterrorism Blog – Congress Moves to Keep Attention to Bout’s Extradition Process
“Viktor Bout” is a free-lancer like Colonel Bob Denard was independent of French intelligence.
Eeben Barlow – Strategy and Tactics of War
A practitioner’s advice.
The Strategist – “I must die. But must I die bawling?”
Umm….that’s Epictetus, not Kotare. : )
That’s it!
February 16th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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February 16th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Thanks for the shout-out!The Table of Contents excludes — because of my own mistake — the title of Shane Deichman’s chapter, as well as his participation. Sorry, Shane!