DO PNM BLOGGERS HAVE A ROMANIAN CONNECTION ?

First I need to say ” Thank You” because Dr. Barnett allotted a generous amount of space today on his blog for my commentary on his Deleted Scene on System Perturbation– very generous because it turns out that I am quite a wordy bastard – and then he added his own comments to my commentary. In Tom’s words, ” a megaposting”. For those of you who came here from elsewhere than Dr. Barnett’s blog, here are his links:

Dr. Barnett’s Intro.

Post I.

Post II.

Post III.

Post IV.

Post V.

PostVI.

Post VII.

Post VIII.

After reading these straight through I’m kind of longing for some greater mathematical ability – I’m pretty confident System Perturbations will later prove to have some validity as a predictor and not just as a strategic concept. Most likely, Bayesian probality theory analysis will be involved to some degree but unfortunately that’s the extent to which I can take my speculation. Maybe Dr. Barnett needs to brief the NSA cryptological brain trust and bestir their professional interest.

Another thing I noticed today is that in the backgrounds of a lot of the bloggers who have posted extensively on PNM have some interest or connection with Romania. Dr. Barnett, who holds a doctorate in Poli Sci, previously wrote a book on Communist Romania’s foreign policy. I wrote my thesis for my MA in History on American-Romanian relations during the Nixon administration, emphasizing the connection to Nixon’s China policy. TM Lutas, interestingly enough, actually is Romanian ! I’m not sure what this means but if Dave Schuyler, who is working on a Wave Theory post for the Core-Gap relationship, has ever visited Bucharest or something similar I’m going to fall off my chair.