Recommended Reading
Top Billing! The Committee of Public Safety – The Machiavellians: Principle I , The Machiavellians: Principle II and The Machiavellians: Principle III
Josephfouche’s neat idea for a series, based on The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by 20th century public intellectual James Burnham.
DNI – “The Epistemology of Strategy” by Maj. Richard Maltz (ret.) Hat tip to Fabius Maximus.
Military revolutions are cognitive revolutions.
NYT – “Up, Up and Out ” by Paul Kane
Getting rid of the Air Force is laugh test dumb – as if I want ground commanders controlling our arsenal of nuclear weapons, we decided that issue fifty years ago. That said, other parts of this op-ed are very sound.
Foreign Policy – Three juntas and a democracy
Studies in Intelligence – The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War
SEED – This is your brain on Facebook
That’s it!