Recommended Reading
This past week I had the pleasure of attending the WEST 2012 Conference in San Diego, where the theme was America’s Military at the Crossroads: What’s Out and What’s In for 2012 and Beyond. I was encouraged to attend by the involvement of the event co-sponsor, the United State Naval Institute. The USNI has been in the forefront of offering a platform where those with an interest in the Navy and all the attendant aspects of strategy, history and tactics are given a forum to express and discuss their interests. The attention to the future of the sea services became all the more important in the recent changes being described as the “Strategic Pivot” to face west into the Pacific and prepare to confront what some see as a potential adversary, China, as she builds her own blue water navy. How big is this threat? Are we building the right fleet, or are we building a fleet based on the last major war WWII? What in the light of the current economic times, can we afford to build. And finally, what kind of Sailors and Marines and leaders do we need for the next two decades and beyond? Those are some of the questions that the conference’s many panels attempted to answer.
Kings of War (Jack McDonald) – Obama, Realist to Little People.
SWJ Blog (Mike Few) – Rethinking Revolution: Egypt in Transition and Rethinking Revolution: Iraq
Bruce Kesler – Haditha Was Exploited To Increase Danger To The US, US Troops, And To Noncombatants
Quesopaper – Rule of Law, Part 2
Nuclear Diner –Nuclear Terrorism: Will the Business Plan Work?
Foreign Policy (Dan Drezner) –Interweaving of Public Diplomacy and U.S. International Broadcasting, A Historical Analysis by Ted Lipien
Danger Room (David Axe) –U.S.-Backed Militia Fortifies Afghanistan’s ‘Heart of Darkness’
Eide Neurolearning Blog –Pattern Learning and the Brain
Scienceblog – FIRST PLANTS CAUSED ICE AGES
David Armano – Trust Shifts From Institutions To Individuals
Presentation Zen – 10 great books to help you think, create, & communicate better in 2012
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