{"id":2652,"date":"2008-03-25T05:24:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T05:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2008-03-25T05:24:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T05:24:29","slug":"recommended-reading-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2652","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top Billing! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kotare.typepad.com\/\">The Strategist<\/a><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kotare.typepad.com\/\"> <\/a>&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kotare.typepad.com\/thestrategist\/2008\/03\/xenophon.html\">The Persian Expedition<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a great book.\u00a0 Of the students and associates\u00a0of <strong>Socrates<\/strong>, <strong>Xenophon<\/strong> was the one\u00a0who kept a foot pragmatically grounded in reality, something that cannot always be said of <strong>Plato<\/strong>, who was admittedly a much greater philosopher, or of <strong>Critias<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On the death of <strong>Arthur C. Clark<\/strong> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/oz.deichman.net\/2008\/03\/arthur-c-clarke-1917-2008.html\"><strong>Wizards of Oz<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/5643.html\"><strong>Chicago Boyz<\/strong><\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theglitteringeye.com\/?p=3567\"><strong>The Glittering Eye<\/strong><\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/soobdujour.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/arthur-c-clarke-1917-2008.html\"><strong>Soob<\/strong><\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/whirledview.typepad.com\/whirledview\/2008\/03\/arthur-c-clarke.html\"><strong>Whirledview<\/strong><\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/armsandinfluence.typepad.com\/armsandinfluence\/2008\/03\/rendezvoused-wi.html\"><strong>Kingdaddy<\/strong><\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/armchairgeneralist.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2008\/03\/arthur-c-clarke.html\"><strong>Armchair Generalist<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When blogfriends unite, I take note.<\/p>\n<p>On &#8220;<strong>Anonymous<\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2008\/03\/journal-anonymo.html\"><strong>Global <\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2008\/03\/anonymous.html\"><strong>Guerillas<\/strong><\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cominganarchy.com\/2008\/03\/18\/anon-analysis\/\"><strong>Coming Anarchy\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say this is emergent <strong>5GW<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/\">SWJ Blog<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/an-outsiders-perspective\/\">An Outsider&#8217;s Perspective<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This one is already in circulation so I&#8217;m just piling on.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Billing! The Strategist &#8211; &#8220;The Persian Expedition&#8221; What a great book.\u00a0 Of the students and associates\u00a0of Socrates, Xenophon was the one\u00a0who kept a foot pragmatically grounded in reality, something that cannot always be said of Plato, who was admittedly a much greater philosopher, or of Critias. On the death of Arthur C. Clark &#8211; [&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-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","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=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}