Recommended Reading
Top Billing! CTlab Symposium on P.W. Singer’s Wired For War
CTlab Symposium: Wired for War, additional readings
Opening Remarks P.W. Singer
Whither the Anti-Killer Robot Lobby? Charli Carpenter 
Wired for … Nuclear War? Martin Senn
Studying War on an Infinite Battlefield Drew Conway
More Thoughts On Robots and IHL Rex Brynen
When Robots Are Not Just About Autonomy – Remote Platform Targeted Killing Kenneth Anderson
Implications for command and control Antoine Bousquet
Provocation: Wiring Terrorist Sanctuaries Mike Innes
Brave New World? John Matthew Barlow
Harvard KSG on ‘Unmanned and Robotic Warfare’ Drew Conway
Kudos to Mike Innes and CTLab Review for organizing this symposium on Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
(I am however, disturbed by the frequency of pop cultural references from my youth in Wired for War, which, if read in a tome on modern warfare, presents the reader with the inescapable conclusion that they are getting….old)
The New York Times – The Civil Heretic
This portrait of Freeman Dyson, one of the more important living scientific minds, and his ostracism at the hands of the global warming commissars in academia who brook no dissent from the party line, is one of the best NYT pieces I’ve seen in a while.
Scientific American – Building the 21st-Century Mind
The Rise of the Synthesizers. I have some problems with Howard Gardner, which range from his eschewing scientific rigor in investigating learning theories whenever it suits his political views to do so, to writing books that are, at best, unevenly developed arguments. That said, Gardner always has several important, worthwhile and often powerful concepts or insights amidst the other clutter he’s presenting. This is no exception. Accept the wheat, discard the chaff.
CTOvision – Widespread Cyber Espionage: More evidence and what to do about it
I will pair this with Michael Tanji’s Stop Reading About Cyber Security and Sam Liles’ Into the darkness of cyber warfare
Haft of the Spear – Everyone is an analyst
A quality rant that includes -and I quote – “. . . there are not enough short buses in this world to transport these people to crazy town.” Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!
Sic Semper Tyrannis – A good plan for Afghanistan… and Bob Gates on FNS – Yes, that’s what we are doing.
Have not checked in with the curmudgeonly and paleoconservative Col. Lang in a while. : )
Mapping Strategy – ‘Planning’ in Fog at High Speed
Art is my metacognitive amigo.
Dr. Von – Dispelling a Myth – Public Schools do Better in Math than Private
I am not surprised, statistically speaking, that any study that was constructed adequately so as to compare students on an apples to apples basis would demonstrate these findings. Once you control for intellectual selectivity, or at times, just basic socioeconomic level, the private advantage is lost (Harvard with open admissions would no longer be Harvard, in essence)
Recommended Viewing:
Hat tip to Network Weaving:
That’s it!
