DECLINE OF THE EDITORIAL STATE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ?
This guy is either a major admirer of Martin van Creveld, William Lind and John Robb or he owes somebody some serious royalties. This article could be Cliffs Notes for The Rise and Decline of the State. Yet not a word of acknowledgment. For good measure, he also borrows the term ” Gap” from Tom Barnett but mostly he just cribs from the 4GW school.
Uncool. Attribution is important.
July 11th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
By now a lot of people are channeling van Creveld, Barnett, Lind et. al., but if we’re putting together a timeline of Who Got There First I submit the name of one of my former intelligence colleagues, David Kanin. David was sounding this theme back in 1993 or thereabouts, but as he worked at Langley, nearly everything he wrote was for the Dark Side and his street cred would be hard to document. However, I see him listed as one of the “Experts in International Affairs” by Johns Hopkins’ SAIS.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:05 am
Hi Ralph,
I’ll take your word on his credibility. Does David have anything in the unclassified edition of Studies in Intelligence or another journal?
I realize most of what he wrote was probably not for publication but if there’s something floating out there I’d be happy to take a look.
July 13th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Let me see what I can dig up. I doubt he wrote much if anything for SiI, although he (and many others at Langley) certainly should have.
July 14th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Thanks Ralph, much appreciated !