{"id":1559,"date":"2005-12-11T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2005-12-11T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T20:13:00","slug":"1559","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Please excuse the limited posting this weekend as I had some family obligations that took priority over normal activities. I will try to respond to the comments made yesterday later this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The following op-eds were jointly endorsed by<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracy-project.com\/archives\/002143.html\">Bruce Kesler<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracy-project.com\/archives\/002143.html\"> <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/19164.html\"><strong>Dr. Klinghoffer<\/strong> <\/a>today and I add my name in calling them &#8221; must reads&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/12\/09\/AR2005120901711.html\">The Promise of Democratic Peace<\/a>&#8221; by <strong>Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/uniontrib\/20051211\/news_1e11kissn.html\">Moving toward a Responsible Exit Strategy in Iraq<\/a>&#8221; by <strong>Fmr. Secretary of State Henry <\/strong><br \/><strong>Kissinger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-form\/ref=s_sf_b_as\/103-5924898-0701457\"><strong>Bevin Alexander<\/strong> <\/a>in an article for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-n-i.net\/\">DNI<\/a><\/strong> comes to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-n-i.net\/fcs\/alexander_us_backing_out.htm\"> remarkably similar conclusions <\/a>to mine about what should be done in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The cognitive root of military power is examined in a wind-ranging and very Boydian piece from RAND, entitled &#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/publications\/MR\/MR880\/MR880.ch17.pdf\"><em>Neocortical Warfare<\/em> <\/a>&#8220;(PDF) by <strong>Richard Szafranski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An even more directly Boydian analysis &#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calresco.org\/beckermn\/nonlindy.htm\">The Non-Linear Dynamics of War<\/a>&#8221; by <strong>Dr. Linda P. Beckerman<br \/><\/strong><br \/>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECOMMENDED READING Please excuse the limited posting this weekend as I had some family obligations that took priority over normal activities. I will try to respond to the comments made yesterday later this evening. The following op-eds were jointly endorsed by Bruce Kesler and Dr. Klinghoffer today and I add my name in calling them [&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-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","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=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}