{"id":2312,"date":"2007-07-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2007-07-28T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T07:00:00","slug":"2312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2312","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The nice thing about falling behind on this feature is that good material builds up. Hoo-HA!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/\">Thomas P.M. Barnett<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/news\/articles\/070729\/6china.fear.htm\"> Managing China&#8217;s Ascent<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Books are intellectual &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auctoritas\">auctoritas<\/a>&#8220;. The blog is fun. Syndication is nice but op-eds in a few print outlets &#8211; <strong><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Time<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Newsweek<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>U.S. News &#038; World Report<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; are the big time influencers with the old line establishment. Nice work Tom!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdaxp.com\/\">Dan of tdaxp<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdaxp.com\/archive\/2005\/07\/20\/dreaming-5th-generation-war.html\">Dreaming 5GW<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>I was certain that <strong>Boyd 2007<\/strong> would spark a new series out of Dan; here he will delve into the intuitive conflict of fifth generation warfare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fabius Maximus<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-n-i.net\/fabius\/long_war_I.htm\">America takes another step towards the \u201cLong War\u201dPart I<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Fabius draws a contrast with the start of the Cold War to question some of the operative premises of the GWOT. There is also a sustained critique of the COIN philosophy of <strong>LTC. David Kilcullen.<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/1raindrop.typepad.com\/1_raindrop\/\">1 Raindrop<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/1raindrop.typepad.com\/1_raindrop\/2007\/07\/william-gibson-.html\">William Gibson Thinks You Should Go to Metricon<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gunnar<\/strong> is one of those guys who deserves to have me link to him more often than I do, a true expert in IT security as well as a Gibson fan ( seems to be a common thread among <strong>Zenpundit<\/strong> readers; I am halfway through <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neuromancer-William-Gibson\/dp\/0441012035\/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b\/105-8076834-3007658?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1184601838&amp;sr=8-1\">Neuromancer<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, my first Gibson read)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/duckofminerva.blogspot.com\/\">Daniel Nexon<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/duckofminerva.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/toward-neo-neo-reganite-foreign-policy.html\">Toward a neo-neo-Reaganite foreign policy<\/a> &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nexon, much in demand for Harry Potter interviews these days, critiques <strong>Donald Kagan&#8217;s<\/strong> grasp of grand strategy, giving both praise and criticism. I like the term &#8220;neo-neo-Reganite&#8221; too &#8211; something to be said for reviving the most effective aspects of Reagan foreign policy.  <strong>:O)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>William Lind<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/2007\/2007_07_16\/article1.html\">How to Win in Iraq<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>A number of readers, including <strong>Morgan<\/strong>, have urged that I read Lind&#8217;s piece.  As someone who grew up reading <strong>Ayn Rand, Russell Kirk, Albert Jay Nock, <\/strong>and <strong>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/strong>, it&#8217;s weird for me to see a genuine paleoconservative like Bill Lind enunciating a grand strategy of conserving the state. Yet the global environment has changed and the Burkean roots of conservatism are finding political traction, at least in some quarters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>PARAMETERS<\/em><\/strong> -&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/carlisle-www.army.mil\/usawc\/Parameters\/07summer\/reed.htm\">A Social Network Approach to Understanding an Insurgency <\/a>&#8221; by <strong>Brian Reed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Particularly appropriate paradigm for tribal societies where networks come &#8221; hard wired&#8221; by genetics as well as by social, political and economic choices.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECOMMENDED READING The nice thing about falling behind on this feature is that good material builds up. Hoo-HA! Thomas P.M. Barnett &#8211; &#8220; Managing China&#8217;s Ascent&#8220; Books are intellectual &#8220;auctoritas&#8220;. The blog is fun. Syndication is nice but op-eds in a few print outlets &#8211; The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","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=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}