Recommended Reading and Viewing

And there was simply the fact that a shaking out in alliances was inevitable when it became clear to West Europeans that continuing with the policy of using former Soviet republics to create an ever-expanding front against Russia was threatening to create the very instability on the Continent that had driven European fear of Russian hegemony. The Georgia war was the starkest demonstration that there had to be a realignment of priorities for Europe, even if this caused a major rift with the United States

Every nation has historic policies that are cherished and repeatedly get dusted off. The Russo-German partnership goes back to Bismarck….unless we want to count the brief period of Tsar Peter II’s Germanomaniac worship of Frederick the Great

BLOGFRIENDS UNITE! The eponymous Adam Elkus and Great Satan’s Girlfriend, Courtney Messerschmidt, the gamine of COIN, have joined forces to seize control of Wings Over Iraq! Or….maybe….Starbuck just went on vacation or something.

Foreign Policy (Dr. James Joyner) – Back in the Saddle

Dr. Joyner offers a counterintuitive take on NATO and Libya

Ribbonfarm –Extroverts, Introverts, Aspies and Codies (hat tip to Nate Lauterbach)

Popular Science – Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of Light Waves and Video: Railgun Blasts an Aerodynamic Round Seven Kilometers Through A Steel Plate

Where earlier attempts have fired ungainly missiles that tumbled end-over-end through the air like “hypersonic bricks,” this one uses a sabot round, which flies straight and smoothly for a distance of seven kilometers, AFTER punching through a solid steel plate

WIRED Science-7 Science-Education Battlegrounds of 2011

Studies in Intelligence (Martin Peterson) –What I Learned in 40 Years of Doing Intelligence Analysis for US Foreign Policymakers

Excellent. Sherman Kent would approve.

AFJ (Col. Joseph Collins) –MESSAGE TO THE NEXT SECDEF

RECOMMENDED VIEWING:

“The Game of Thrones“ on HBO.

I read the George R.R. Martin series which is heavy on swords, political intrigue, war, sex and a 4GW-like collapse of a great and venerable feudal realm and lighter on sorcery. More like Machiavelli than Tolkien, at least in the earlier books ( the series is not finished). Looks quite good and true to the story, from the trailer and the preview. The first episode aired last night.

Game of Thrones Exclusive Preview

First 15 minutes of Game of Thrones, episode 1:

Game of Thrones Exclusive Preview

That’s it.

Page 2 of 2 | Previous page