{"id":1418,"date":"2005-09-16T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2005-09-16T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T16:34:00","slug":"1418","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A BOOK REVIEW WORTH READING<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadventuresofchester.com\/\"><strong>The Adventures of Chester<\/strong> <\/a>has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadventuresofchester.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/marketstates_ne.html\">a wide-ranging and informative review <\/a>of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0375412921\/ref=ase_theadventur07-20\/102-6813568-4152145?v=glance&#038;s=books\"><strong><em>The Shield of Achilles:War, Peace and the Course of History<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by <strong>Phillip Bobbitt<\/strong>. After seeing the selection of topics raised by Mr. Bobbitt and elucidated by <strong>Chester<\/strong> &#8211; netwar, market-states, ebay-style command systems, PNM, epochal wars &#8211; and the impressive people who are themselves reading <strong><em>Shield of Achilles<\/em><\/strong>, this may be the next &#8221; must-read&#8221; book alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0399153128\/qid=1126889069\/sr=1-2\/ref=sr_1_2\/102-6813568-4152145?v=glance&amp;s=books\"><strong><em>Blueprint for Action<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>on military strategy, society and foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>I think I will pencil Border&#8217;s into my weekend schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BOOK REVIEW WORTH READING The Adventures of Chester has a wide-ranging and informative review of The Shield of Achilles:War, Peace and the Course of History by Phillip Bobbitt. After seeing the selection of topics raised by Mr. Bobbitt and elucidated by Chester &#8211; netwar, market-states, ebay-style command systems, PNM, epochal wars &#8211; and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}