RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n
Some interesting things for interesting times:<\/p>\n
Sonny<\/strong> at FX-Based<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>has Part III of “In Defense of EBO<\/a>” up. Sonny’s series is written as a refutation of “Bloodless theories, bloody wars; Easy-win concepts crumble in combat<\/a>“, a highly critical piece by Ralph Peters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Steve DeAngelis<\/strong> of ERMB<\/a><\/strong> explains “Development -in-a-Box” in the context of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earl<\/strong> of Prometheus6<\/a><\/strong>, unlike most of us, has some firsthand experience<\/em><\/strong> with the big IC\/NYT story <\/a>of the day.<\/p>\n This next one was fun. At least for me, and highly recommended:<\/p>\n Curzon<\/strong> of Coming Anarchy<\/strong> <\/a>unsheathes dagger and sword to avenge Coming Anarchy’s patron saint, Robert Kaplan<\/strong><\/a>, from a somewhat prissy and and faux-intellectual <\/a>attack job. Defending Kaplan brings out Curzon’s more creative powers of rebuttal <\/a>and this post does not disappoint.<\/p>\n Bill Petti<\/strong> of The Duck of Minerva<\/strong> <\/a>and I probably would not agree on all aspects of foreign policy but I like the way he chooses to frame his analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n PurpleSlog<\/a><\/strong> coins a phrase that will create instant arguments, <\/a>regardless of the merits of the underlying issue. On the other hand, however you care to phrase it, he’s discussing an intellectual phenomenon we have seen before<\/a>.<\/p>\n That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RECOMMENDED READING Some interesting things for interesting times: Sonny at FX-Based has Part III of “In Defense of EBO” up. Sonny’s series is written as a refutation of “Bloodless theories, bloody wars; Easy-win concepts crumble in combat“, a highly critical piece by Ralph Peters. Steve DeAngelis of ERMB explains “Development -in-a-Box” in the context of […]<\/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-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","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=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}