{"id":1680,"date":"2006-03-10T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2006-03-10T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T03:04:00","slug":"1680","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fabius Maximus<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-n-i.net\/\"><strong>DNI<\/strong> <\/a>continues his series with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-n-i.net\/fcs\/fabius_forecast_3-2006.htm\"> Forecasts for the American Expedition to Iraq \u2013 the Sequel.Also, Introducing the New Kingmaker in American Politics<\/a>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I note for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglitteringeye.com\/\"><strong>Dave Schuler<\/strong> <\/a>that Fabius cites <strong>Walter Russell Mead<\/strong> in his essay. Overall, very intriguing though I disagree with some of it &#8211; noting for example that democracy and civil war are hardly incompatible. One may kill other or a state of juxtaposition or coexistence may pesist until the LIC civil war simply burns itself out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curzon<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cominganarchy.com\/\"><strong>Coming Anarchy<\/strong> <\/a>has a &#8220;threefer&#8221;: two posts on his &#8221; Mapping the Gap&#8221; series &#8211;<br \/>&#8220;<a title=\"Permanent Link to Mapping the Gap, Part 1: War Risk Insurance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cominganarchy.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/06\/mapping-the-gap-part-1-war-risk-insurance\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mapping the Gap, Part 1: War Risk Insurance<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a title=\"Permanent Link to Mapping the Gap, Part 2: Homosexuality Laws\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cominganarchy.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/08\/mapping-the-gap-part-2-homosexuality-laws\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mapping the Gap, Part 2: Homosexuality Laws<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a title=\"Permanent Link to Discussion: Exxon Sued for Allowing Indonesia Troops to Torture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cominganarchy.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/09\/discussion-exxon-sued-for-indonesian-troop-torture\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Discussion: Exxon Sued for Allowing Indonesia Troops to Torture<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/pdfs\/PIP_Internet_ties.pdf\">The Strength of Internet Ties<\/a>&#8221; (PDF) by <strong>PEW<\/strong> .  Examining the internet and social networks. A &#8221; <strong><em>must read<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; for bloggers and military netwar theorists alike. The survey finds evidence of real empowerment, connectivity and leveraging of resources for sustaining large networks via the internet. The net is a multiplier here and an expander of parameters of influence.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com\/\">Eide Neurolearning Blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECOMMENDED READING Fabius Maximus at DNI continues his series with &#8220; Forecasts for the American Expedition to Iraq \u2013 the Sequel.Also, Introducing the New Kingmaker in American Politics!&#8221; I note for Dave Schuler that Fabius cites Walter Russell Mead in his essay. Overall, very intriguing though I disagree with some of it &#8211; noting for [&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-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}