I’m back!<\/p>\n
Top Billing!<\/strong> In honor of\u00a0 Monday’s\u00a0roundtable<\/a>, some visualization and explanation of the intellectual\u00a0journey of John Boyd<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0Dr. Chet Richards<\/a><\/strong> -“Where Boyd Got the\u00a0Discourse<\/a>“.<\/p>\n \u00a0The Lounsbury<\/a><\/strong> -“Dollars, Gulf Politics & MENA Economies, tip, tip toeing….”<\/a>\u00a0 Given the interest over the Fallows article on the Dollar-based hedge policy of China, Collounsbury weighs in\u00a0Qatar trying to hedge against the dollar’s weakness and econ conditions in MENA. His remark on the 1970’s resonates for those who recall the\u00a0bombshell of Nixon taking Connally’s advice to let the Dollar float and ending it’s ethereally abstract\u00a0tie to gold. Nixon did so because foreign dollars reserves vastly exceeded the ratio under which the old policy had been sustainable.<\/p>\n John Robb<\/a><\/strong> – “PANDORA’S BOX<\/a>”\u00a0 The heterogeneity of warfare’s downward spiral\u00a0in an era of interconnective globalization and state-decline.<\/p>\n Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett<\/a><\/strong> – “Barnett: Better days, just not right now<\/a>”\u00a0 Tom and John could\u00a0go on the road as The\u00a0Odd Couple <\/a>of geopolitical security analysis; here Tom outlines the upsides of our current national\u00a0malaise.<\/p>\n Jeremy Young<\/strong> <\/a>– “Blogging and Peer Review<\/a>”\u00a0 Jeremy squarely hits the nail on how blogging as a platform threatens gatekeeping elites in academia and the “rule of the journals”. Let’s be honest here. Peer-review journals enforce scholarly standards in terms of form but how often have we read\u00a0an article in one where the argument was so strained and intellectually shoddy, the citations weak or irrelevant that we had to wonder how in the hell it was published if not via some personal connection between author and editor?\u00a0<\/p>\n SWJ Blog<\/a><\/strong> – “Are We Ready for Hybrid Wars?<\/a>” Summarizes a new\u00a0argument by top level military thinker Frank Hoffman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Swedish Meatballs Confidential<\/strong> <\/a>puts their (meat)ball back into blogospheric play after a long holiday hiatus. Welcome back !<\/p>\n Matt Armstrong<\/a><\/strong> gets noticed<\/a>.<\/p>\n That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m back! Top Billing! In honor of\u00a0 Monday’s\u00a0roundtable, some visualization and explanation of the intellectual\u00a0journey of John Boyd\u00a0from\u00a0Dr. Chet Richards -“Where Boyd Got the\u00a0Discourse“. \u00a0The Lounsbury -“Dollars, Gulf Politics & MENA Economies, tip, tip toeing….”\u00a0 Given the interest over the Fallows article on the Dollar-based hedge policy of China, Collounsbury weighs in\u00a0Qatar trying to hedge […]<\/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-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}