Recommended Reading
Top Billing! – Ben Smith/POLITICO “Clinton: OPEC ‘can no longer be a cartel’”
WTF???? Hillary Clinton: Megalomaniac or the living entelechy of Insincerity. You decide.
Equal time. Good Freaking Lord – Bill Ayers makes Reverend Wright look like a Bircher. Hat tip to Pundita.
MountainRunner -“U.S. Public Diplomacy Update: nothing new to report”
Could we possibly get Matt get confirmed in the next administration?
SWJ Blog – “Sunday Light Reading”
Well selected pieces, as usual. From Algeria to El Salvador – I like case studies.
Thomas P.M. Barnett -“We also need connectivity with foreign militaries”
I like how Tom explicitly differentiated between unilateral and aggregate Core Sys Admin capability. I’ve always understood Sys Admin that way but I think it’s often been left to be fairly ambiguous, perhaps on purpose.
Fabius Maximus – “Secretary Gates would be a hero, if speeches could reform DoD”
FM not only uses me as a foil but puts me into an odd trio with a portly Neoconservative tanker and Abu Muqawama’s co-blogger, the self-proclaimed “Angelina Jolie of COIN”. I’m not really certain what this means.
John Robb is at work on a new book.
Congratulations to my friend Dan of tdaxp for the publication of his monograph, Revolutionary Strategies in Early Christianity. Never one to shrink from controversy, Dan applied a radical military theory to analyze the origins of an ancient religion beloved by something over a billion people. I received my PDF copy today and already started reading it this afternoon. A review is pending.
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