More Oligarchy
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009One law for them, another for the rest of us.
Courtesy of Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.) and Richard Durbin (D- Daley Machine).
Archive for the ‘blogosphere’ Category
Update: DNI
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Two bloggers have stepped forward to lend a hand in preserving and carrying on DNI’s legacy. In each instance, both efforts are “under construction”.
John Robb has set up a page for William Lind to continue his column and to house 4GW docs, also a page to house materials from strategist Col. John Boyd, whose ideas were at the core of DNI.
Ed Beakley of Project White Horse is developing a Boyd Compendium that will eventually be greatly expanded to include much of interest at DNI.
Dr. Richards announced he will be keeping DNI up until he can find another person or organization to take over site management.
Going Dark
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009First Chet Richards and now Abu Muqawama.
Hat tip to Isaac.
Added to the Blogroll
Sunday, October 18th, 2009Decided to beef up the diplo section here to balance out all the COIN/strategic studies blogs on the roll.
John Brown’s Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review, Version 2.0
Check them out!
More blogging later today…..
Featured at the Atlantic Council
Thursday, October 15th, 2009My post below, with minor alterations, has just been re-published at the Atlantic Council on their blog, courtesy of managing editor, Dr. James Joyner.
State Department Must Reform or Die
Much appreciated, Dr. Joyner!
ADDENDUM:
Karaka Pend ties related posts on the inadequacy of the State Department together:
The State Department has a mission, if they choose to accept it.
Karaka also points to this TNR op-ed by Dr. Steve Metz of SSI:
….No one welcomes this more than the military. In the absence of civilian capacity, soldiers end up managing public services like trash collection, or trying to teach democracy and good governance. At a major conference on irregular conflicts last month, I listened as a decorated Marine colonel heading for command in Afghanistan talked of how that conflict would unfold when the civilian surge was in place. As a Pentagon official heard this, he told me, “The military is looking to off-load nation building; they are so desperate to do that–and so eager to enshrine the lessons from the Iraq counterinsurgency–that they have convinced themselves of the necessity and plausibility of a civilian surge.”
ADDENDUM II. – COURTESY OF SCHMEDLAP:
