Delayed Recommended Reading
I’m up to my neck in work, including a chapter for Michael Tanji’s book project. That said, I can’t let the blog die on the vine while I slave away.
On Somali Piracy:
Robert Paterson – Pirates seize supertanker – What does this mean? , Pundita – War at sea, continued: Is anyone still buying that “Somali pirates” are simple fishermen? Time to crack out the microwave guns Information Dissemination – Piracy Escalation to VLCC in Somalia,
This is your Brain on…neurons ( Hat tip to Dave at Thoughts Illustrated)
Don’t ask, don’t tell but it’s ok to drop a “Gay Bomb“. WTF ?
Some intel analytical history for the mathematically inclined
Happy Blogiversary to HistoryGuy99 !
That’s it!
November 19th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
The gay bomb is brilliant. If you had people subject to some kind of intoxicating level of aphrodisiac, it might incapacitate them. Why not look into it. Out of the trillions we spend, why not.
But, I am old fashioned. If you send in the military, don’t goof around. I say, burn them alive with white phosphorus and napalm, perforate them with bullets and shrapnel, blow them to bloody shreds with explosives, crush them under tank treads, and if necessary bury them alive by bulldozing their sand berms onto their trenches. But make them into one big, groping, squealing, giggling gay orgy? That is inhuman. And worst of all, not very manly, in a good, no-nonsense, kinetic, war-fighting sort of way.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Thank you for spotlighting the Norfolk Four issue. Hopefully the governor will show some political courage (it may help VA governors are term limited to only 1 term) and do the right thing here.
I do not know how you and others can keep up the amazing production of papers, posts and insightful comments while maintaining day jobs and family responsibilities. I tip my hat to all who can pull this off….
November 21st, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Thanks very much for the pointer to the CIA paper on Bayesian analysis, a methodology that has interested me ever since I learned about it in a course at the Defense Intelligence College back in the mid-80s. One interesting note from the article — it references an early (1937) experiment in Delphi prediction conducted by a long-forgotten political science professor, Frank Klingberg. I attended Southern Illinois University in the mid-60s; the school liked to hire eminent elderly scholars who were ready to retire from (or being edged out of) their tenured positions at more prestigious institutions. Frank Klingberg was one of these, and I still recall the courses he taught in the government curriculum. Only years later did I start coming across his name in scholarly books and articles.
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
You are welcome Eddie!
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Hi Ralph,
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My familiarity with Bayesian analysis is limited to a single paper written by Jack Zlotnick which I found intriguing despite my definite lack of an aptitude for most things mathematical.
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In a small world coinincidence, you may have crossed paths with an uncle of mine, depending what years you were at SIU, who attended after his service in Vietnam. He still lives down there and is (or was) active in the Alumni association