HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING [ UPDATED]
I haven’t gotten around to one of these posts in a while and as a result, there is a backlog of fine posts and articles worthy of attention.
“Best Practices in Counterinsurgency” in Military Review with a commentary post by Nadezhda at Liberals Against Terrorism. This one is the winner du jour.
“Campaign Design for Winning the War….and the Peace” by Pierre Lessard at Parameters.
“Series: What America Needs to Do to Achieve Its Foreign Policy Goals … Dealing with Terrorism -Part IV.” by William R. Polk at HNN.
” Common Sense and Science” by string theorist Lubos Motl at The Reference Frame and Pure Science vs. Applied Science by Dr. Von at Vonny.
” Sheik of Sheiks ” on networking principles from the Scythians by Dan of tdaxp
“Is Europe Dying? Notes on a Crisis of Civilizational Morale” by George Weigel at HNN
“China’s New Old Civic Mythos” by Matt McIntosh of Conjectures and Refutations.
That’s it.
UPDATE:
Another stellar piece from DNI – “From The Military: Applying 4GW Theory to The Intelligence Community” by Myke Cole.
August 17th, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Thanks for the link!
I love your series on the State Department. Sorry I’ve been just lurking — I have been busy moving into UNL.
-Dan tdaxp
August 17th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Hey Dan,
Hope the move went well. If I never see the inside of a Ryder rent-a-truck again it will suit me fine.
Have the next installment on State written in my head – just need to get some posting time in tonight. I’ll also have something PNM-related up soon that you should find very interesting….