Book Review: Grand Strategies by Charles Hill

March 21st, 2011 by zen

(Special hat tip to J. Scott Shipman who pushed me to read and review this book)

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  2. Charles Cameron:

    March 21st, 2011 at 5:48 am

    This is clearly a book I shall have to read.
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    There is, as we all know, a great deal of thought now poured into the question of how to travel backwards or forwards in time — the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explores the relevant paradoxes, a Princeton astrophysicist tell us how dismantling Jupiter might facilitate it, DARPA is almost certainly onto it — but what’s really needed isn’t forward or backward travel in time, but additional hours  laterally provided within the twenty-four, with no interruption of sleep or sabbath.
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    For the express purpose of reading such books.

  3. J. Scott:

    March 21st, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    Zen, Excellent review! I agree on the last chapter, btw. For me, one take away was the integral role of "stories" (fiction) in defining/shaping culture and ultimately, strategy. I’ve given away several copies. Many thanks for the review!

  4. Lexington Green:

    March 23rd, 2011 at 2:58 am

    Strauss on Plato on Socrates on irony:  This 5 part lecture here is excellent:http://tinyurl.com/5tkful4

  5. seydlitz89:

    March 24th, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    Nice review.  I too really liked the book, but unlike you have yet to put down any ideas from this fascinating work . . .

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