EMERGING FROM RADIO SILENCE
300 REVISITED
Lexington Green sent me this impressive essay on 300 in the Michigan War Studies Review. If you liked the movie, give it a look.
Insanely busy these past few days…..
RECOMMENDED READING
Fast and dirty….
Dan of tdaxp – “The Diplomatic Surge We Need“
Cognitive Daily – “Why are visual memories so vivid when visual memory is so limited?“
BusinessPundit -” Clustered Social Networks Lead to Company Innovation“
Coming Anarchy -“The Human Footprint on Earth“
Opposed System Design – “More Gibson Reading” and “Strategy is Hard, Process is Easy“
That’s it!
AN INTELLECTUAL CALL TO ARMS
Justly praising The Small Wars Journal, Kent’s Imperative raises an idea up the flagpole. Who will salute ? “Micheal Tanji…Tanji….Anyone….Anyone ?”
I’ll kick in something of journal quality, outsider’s perspective of course, if that will help fill space. I strongly suggest, however, inviting some ex-DCI’s for the launch issue. Also, Baer, Scheuer, Bearden…. Christopher Andrew or another ” popular” historian of intelligence for name rec, street and academic cred ( umm..maybe Tanji and Scheuer shouldn’t be in the same issue). Mix people on the MSM radar with unknown but great IC insiders.
If you ask 100 and get 10, you’re viable.
LEARNING TO EAT SOUP WITH JOHN STEWART
Lt. Colonel John Nagl, author of Learning to Eat Soup With A Knife and and the new Counterinsurgency Field Manual, had a very effective performance on a segment of The Daily Show. Colonel Nagl carried the whole effort off quite deftly.
John Stewart’s show reaches an enormous segment of the American population that only tangentially consumes news media information, More than likely, the viewers were hearing things from Nagl about warfare and Iraq for the first time that have been discussed on blogs and at The SWC for years but have been below the media radar. Certainly, host John Stewart seemed engaged in the topic and impressed.
Hat tip to Dave Dilegge of the The Small Wars Journal.
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