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A little early….

Top Billing! Early reviews of If We Can Keep It by Dr. Chet Richards ( my own review will be in a few days)

TDAXP     Fabius Maximus    William Lind

Now for the rest….

The Glittering Eye – A New President Will Restore the U. S.’s Position in the World

Wise words from Dave.

ERMB – Virtual Worlds Becoming All Too Real

Kind of a cool topic and one outside of Steve’s usual focus.

Hidden Unities – Deployed Soldiers Losing Custody Of Their Kids

At what point does the machinery of government cease treating serving military personnel like crap?

Abu Muqawama – The Evolution of Odierno

Abu seems to write on the newly promoted Odierno with some frequency. And the topic bears close reading as some insiders see General Odierno replacing General Petraeus sooner rather than later. Or perhaps getting an even higher posting.

Edge Perspective – Innovating on the Edge of Big Waves

Fabius Maximus – Surrender in Al Anbar province

FM is the resident contrarian here.

Presentation Zen –  Deep or wide? You decide , Books are dead (long live books!) , Books are dead (long live books!) part 2                   

A rare triple-play but I have a soft spot for members of the “zen community”.

Dr. Von –More on Science Funding Woes

The Telegraph – “Britain a Soft Touch for Homegrown Terrorists” ( Hat tip Pundita)

That’s it!
 

The English translation of the captured AQI/ISI Diary, courtesy of  DefenseLink’s Blogger’s Roundtable.  Some redacting.

A  surprise Valentine’s Day Gift from Mrs. Zenpundit to better suport my humble blogging efforts ( along with facilitating several graphics-rich gaming platforms that were stressing out my aging 1 gig PC). Currently transferring a multitude of files and reloading programs. Will return to normal blogging on Friday.

My esteemed colleague Dan of tdaxp recently suggested making use of the micropublishing service Nimble to put the Osinga Roundtable on Science, Strategy and War at Chicago Boyz  into dead-tree, published format. This was seconded via email by another blogfriend who did not participate in the roundtable but would like a hard copy for his own purposes. If I were to set about doing this, I’d envision trying to get permission to include a few related pieces from outside the scope of the roundtable contributions that would extend and enrich the reader’s understanding of John Boyd and give them a book that, while slim in size, would still be substantive and tightly focused.

Before I embark on getting the ball rolling with the  interested parties, is there a desire out there for such a book ? Assuming I get everyone’s buy-in and permission, the cost would run around $17 + , more or less, plus whatever Nimble might charge for shipping and handling. 

Dave Dilegge and Bill Nagl have announced that the already excellent, peer reviewed,  Small Wars Journal is moving on to BETA status:

What’s this BETA / interim stuff?

We have great content now from contributing authors, and it has been hanging fire for too long in the bowels of Small Wars Journal. We are still a lottery ticket and a horseshoe nail away from having the Fully New and Completely Improved SWJ Magazine. So here, as an interim solution, is the partially new and still-improving SWJ Magazine.

The articles published here have been peer-reviewed for content and quality, and accepted for publication.  We’re behind on formatting, editing, etc.  The articles are provided now “as is” because this is the way we can get their important messages out without further delay (which, in some cases, has already been substantial).  Revised versions for edits, formatting, and presentation will be posted when they are available and as site improvements are made.

Note that the individual article Titles, Permalinks, and Comments will stay stable throughout our growth, so don’t worry about us pulling that rug out from under you as you link to or comment upon these pieces.  But the links to the temporary PDF docs will change, so please don’t link straight to them

Growth pains are just a bump in the road. Congratulations on moving forward!