Recommended Reading
Nir Rosen –Q&A: Nir Rosen on Syria’s armed opposition and Islamism and the Syrian Uprising
Nir Rosen is a very, very controversial figure, putting it mildly. While I find his politics to be radically left-extremist, I can’t fault Rosen’s willingness to crawl through hellholes to report important stories firsthand, much like Robert Young Pelton, David Axe, Michael Yon or Robert Kaplan.
ISW – Syria’s Armed Opposition
The institute for the Study of War is the influential think tank run by the Kagans that, after CNAS, is the most closely associated with COIN and the “surge” in Iraq.
CNAS – Pressure Not War: A Pragmatic and Principled Policy Towards Syria
Title is self-explanatory, author is Marc Lynch.
The Atlantic (Joshua Foust) –Syria and the World’s Troubling Inconsistency on Intervention
Commentary (Michael Rubin) – Mrs. Clinton, Leave Sri Lanka Alone!
(Hat tip to Bruce Kesler)
AFJ (Frank Hoffman) – A New Principle of War
Chacago Boyz – Chicago Send-Off, with Guinness, for Neptunus Lex and “Engineers vs humanities….”
Michigan War Studies Review –Barbarous Philosophers: Reflections on the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg and Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy
Eide Neurolearning Blog –Metacognition, Math, and the Brain
Ribbonfarm –Hall’s Law: The Nineteenth Century Prequel to Moore’s Law
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Madhu:
March 13th, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Thanks for linking my “thought” piece, zen. Actually, the whole series of links you’ve got going are really fascinating. When I’ve got more time, I would like to follow-up on the points made in comments. I like using commenters comments as a kind of “rorschach” test.
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It seems I’ve found my niche, finally, in all this reading around here and my usual haunts. I like to think about what people think they think. Cool topic, don’t you think?
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Ski:
March 16th, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Zen
The British Army actually has a field manual called “Understanding.”
It’s quite good, and it’s available here:
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/MicroSite/DCDC/OurPublications/JDWP/Jdp04Understanding.htm
I read it and used it to my advantage during my last deployment to Afghanistan.