Recommended Reading
Top Billing! Dr. Phil Williams at SSI – FROM THE NEW MIDDLE AGES TO A NEW DARK AGE: THE DECLINE OF THE STATE AND U.S. STRATEGY
Despite my confidence in economic flows, I’m featuring the “Forces of Darkness” today. Williams is the ” new van Creveld”. Amusing, considering the hard feelings that SSI’s research director has toward 4GW. Hat tip to Dr. Chet Richards.
MountainRunner – “Combat Robots and Perception Management” in SERVIAM magazine.
Matt goes William Gibson on us but he’s absolutely on track. I notice that the actual U.S. military robots featured look a great deal like the crap prototype terminators released by the female Terminator villain in Terminator III.
The Glittering Eye – Pundits Wanted: No Life Experience Necessary (Updated)
Longtime blogfriend Dave Schuler picks on some targets of his own intellectual size – Judge Richard Posner and Professor Gary Becker.
Wizards of Oz – DHS S&T Summary
Shane reviews a deceptively exciting, blogger-filled DC conference ( that he also liveblogged) that featured…well…some things that never made it into Shane’s review.
Art Hutchinson – Thinking Exotically and Obstacles to Prediction Market Adoption
Art is one of those uber-smart bloggers whose posts ( which are all too seldom) could change how you think. Not your opinion but your cognitive methodology.
Rick Shenkman at HNN – American Democracy: The 10 Alarm Fire We’re Ignoring
Voting is a lot like jury duty and the making of sausages….best not to look too closely.
Registan.net – Fundamentals: The Problem of Debt
Debt, like wealth, is relative; but in CA/SEA it can make for a debt-peonage system that makes sharecropping look enlightened.
SWJ Blog – Hey…George Thorogood is still alive !
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June 9th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I’ll pass along your comments to Phil Williams. The way the Strategic Studies Institute works is that the Director of Research has approval authority over manuscripts from non-SSI people (external to the War College or elsewhere on the War College faculty). We have two department chairman who have approval authority over things written by SSI authors. Since Phil is serving as a visiting professor at SSI (and will return for a second year next year), his followed this internal track.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Hi Steve,
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How’s the bike riding going ?
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Thank you. I was wondering how this paper made it through the system given the assumptions. I’ll have more specific comments on Williams later ( one negative aspect of summer is lack of access to the high speed laser printers at work, forcing me to squint and read everything on a screen, not finished yet as a result) but I like the variables he’s considering.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I would like to read your blog but a lot of the left side of the page is missing. Can you fix it? Please
June 9th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
We’re on day three and my brains, such as they are, remain inside my skull.
I’m weaving learning to ride a motorcycle at age 51 into my blog: http://worldconflict.blogspot.com/
June 10th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
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