Recommended Reading
Dr. Sean Gourley: – “The ecology of war” on the cover of Nature, Can there be a mathematics of war?, It’s more than power-laws and statistics, Quant Analysis and Open Source Warfare, 14 key features that define a successful insurgency, Mathematics of War.com
Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett –Neocons are Alive and Kicking
Tom attacks the policy vision of the Krauthammers and Perles in this WPR piece but waxes brutally honest on the nature of China’s “authoritarian capitalism”
….Obama must spell out to Beijing the limits of America’s willingness to safeguard the developing world for China’s mercantilist resource-plundering strategies. And, quite frankly, Afghanistan is a great place to start, thanks to China’s recent $3.5 billion investment in one of the world’s last-remaining unexploited copper reserves. My guess is that, sometime just before his re-election effort, Obama will quietly deliver the following message to the Chinese: “I’ve held this line for as long as I can. Now it’s your turn to bodyguard yourself.”In the larger strategic sense, Obama has little interest in prematurely forcing this path upon the Chinese, since China’s underdeveloped capabilities would force Beijing to rely on a rapid expansion of its cash-centric form of “state graft.” Left to their own devices, the Chinese would simply turn much of the underdeveloped world into a sad, carbon copy of North Korea’s nationwide slave labor camp, self-righteously justifying such tactics as “non-interference.”
SWJ Blog – In Afghan war, officer flourishes outside the box
Good article. This guy isn’t following a recipe.
JFQ – “A Better War in Afghanistan” by Dr. John Nagl
Steve Pressfield – Interview w/Tribal Chief #10: Pakistan, Interview w/Tribal Chief #11: Pakistan, continued
More grist on our “ally”, Islamabad.
Metamodern – The promise that launched the field of nanotechnology, Molecular Manufacturing: Where’s the progress?, Basement development? Big leaps?
Dr. Eric Drexler’s nanotech series.
When the first million readers encountered “nanotechnology”
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