RECOMMENDED READING EL GRANDE<\/b><\/p>\n
Had to take a couple of days off from blogging and in the interim there were some excellent, stimulating and important posts out there. This is one of those times that I wish there were four of me so I could have thrown my two cents into these discussions. I still may, but in the meantime:<\/p>\n
Bush GOP loyalism vs. Movement Conservatism? <\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Bruce Kesler<\/a>,<\/strong> always lucid and hard-hitting,<\/strong> initiated a major debate in the Right Blogosphere over “Conservative Battle Fatigue<\/a>” which he followed up with “Selling-out our principles: Reason to break with the administration?<\/a>” and “Tapscott\u2019s New Contract With America<\/a>“. Conservative bloggers who joined Bruce include Mark Tapscott<\/strong><\/a>, Captain’s Quarters<\/strong><\/a> ( also here<\/a> and here<\/a>), Professor Bainbridge<\/strong><\/a> (and here<\/a> and here<\/a>), The Anchoress<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Instapundit<\/strong><\/a>, On Liberal Education<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Federalist X<\/strong> at Amendment Nine<\/strong><\/a> has the second part of his series on liberal education, “(ii) Liberal Education in a Nutshell <\/a>” ( Part I is here <\/a>) looking specifically at the ideas of Jacob Klein and the “New Program” of St. John’s College. Hint – clicking the wiki entry is worth it if you want to measure your own progress in reading great books. My reads were scattered throughout the list.<\/p>\n War and Strategy:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Wiggi<\/span>ns <\/strong>at Opposed Systems Design<\/strong> <\/a>has two excellent posts “Yarger\u2019s Little Book<\/a>” and “DoD 3000 follow-up: Momentum and SOAs<\/a>” while Sonny<\/strong> at FX -Based<\/strong><\/a> defends EBO from a slashing attack <\/a>by Ralph Peters<\/strong><\/a> ( see also John Robb<\/strong> on Peters\/EBO<\/a>).<\/p>\n On Iran<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Matthew Hogan<\/strong> of Aqoul<\/a><\/strong> has two posts worth reading – ” First As Tragedy, Then As Farsi: Ahmadinejad’s Letter<\/a>” and one which will interest Dave<\/a><\/strong> and Marc<\/a><\/strong>, “Ahmadinejad’s 1953 Reference: The Skeleton in the Regime’s Closet Reaching Out?<\/a>“.<\/p>\n On Networks (and resiliency):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Von<\/a><\/strong> has two posts here “Some Quick Thoughts on Resiliency in (Social) Networks <\/a>” and That’s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RECOMMENDED READING EL GRANDE Had to take a couple of days off from blogging and in the interim there were some excellent, stimulating and important posts out there. This is one of those times that I wish there were four of me so I could have thrown my two cents into these discussions. I still […]<\/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-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","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=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
and Adam Graham<\/strong><\/a>. The debate is also being noticed elsewhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n
“Analyzing the War on Terror in the Context of Network Theory<\/a>” . Noah<\/strong> of DefenseTech<\/a><\/strong>
enlists Valdis Krebs<\/strong> to analyze the NSA story<\/a> ( hat tip John Robb<\/a><\/strong>) .<\/p>\n