Recommended Reading & Recommended Viewing
Top Billing! Information Dissemination – Theories and Considerations
Missed this when Galrahn originally posted it. It’s a “must read” post for understanding where US Navy strategy could go in the next decade. First rate work!
Thomas P.M. Barnett – “Why Ahmadinejad Is Better for the U.S. Than Moussavi”
I strongly agree here with Tom that the Pasdaran clique of Iranian “siloviki” from the IRGC and security ministries have now gained the upper hand over the clergy as a whole, by aligning with the hardest line minority of clerics. Guns trump turbans.
Whirledview (CKR) – Turning Points
Cheryl Rofer’s next post in our 1913 discussion.
Edge Perspectives with John Hagel- Shift Happens Redux
John details his new longitudinal Shift Index.
The Committee of Public Safety – The Soviet Package of Liberty
The Soviets as strategic spoilers.
Rough Type – The sour Wikipedian
Nick Carr makes the argument that Wikipedians – and by extension, social media user types – are basically loner a-holes. Thanks Nick! 😉
Zero Intelligence Agents – Interstate Conflict and Genetic Similarity; Consequences for COIN and Fog of COIN
The second post is not by Drew Conway, but is a guest post by Thomas Zeitzoff of NYU and a review of David Kilcullen’s The Accidental Guerrilla
Progressive Historians (Ellman) – Living On $2 A Day: An Interview With Economist Jonathan Morduch
A fascinating look at the often sophisticated market activity of the world’s “bottom billions”.
SWJ Blog (Dilegge) – War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age
Book review.
physicsworld.com – In search of the black swans
Is the professional and institutional culture of scientists discouraging future paradigm shifts ?
Howard Bloom – In Praise Of Consumerism – Bees, Bacteria And The Value Of Wasted Time
The latent creativity and discovery for the many in the “wasted” time of the few.
PARAMETERS – “The End of Proportionality” and “Responsibility and Proportionality in State and Nonstate Wars”
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