{"id":2668,"date":"2008-04-06T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2008-04-06T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T16:15:22","slug":"recommended-reading-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2668","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Where action is the attraction&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Billing!<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hgworld.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>HG&#8217;s World<\/strong> <\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/hgworld.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/aftermath-of-global-war-on-terror.html\">The Aftermath of the &#8220;Global War on Terror&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Historyguy99 surveys and comments on the multisite blogospheric discussion of civil-military relations prompted in part, by:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard H. Kohn<\/strong> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldaffairsjournal.org\/winter-2008\/full-civil-military.html\">Coming Soon: A Crisis in Civil-Military Relations<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldaffairsjournal.org\/index.html\"><strong>World Affairs Journal<\/strong> <\/a>( Hat tip <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/\">SWJ Blog<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>This was the &#8220;must-read&#8221; article of the week so if you have not read it, here it is.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.eweek.com\/newsgang\/index.html\"><strong>Steve Gillmor<\/strong> <\/a>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.eweek.com\/newsgang\/content\/dave_winer_gets_it_wrong.html\">Calming Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found this through <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a> <\/strong>after a few of Gillmor&#8217;s big wheel\u00a0 Web 2.0 compadres\u00a0began &#8220;following&#8221; me as well as\u00a0John Robb and others in my blogging circle. An analytical\u00a0riff by Gillmor\u00a0on the intersection of social media platforms, high tech business, Dave Winer&#8217;s projections for Twitter, conversation among early adapters and so on. While I think there is an underlying discourse in there of content and modalities (&#8220;medium is the message&#8221;) I gravitated to it initially because of this section:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Sorry, but it just ain&#8217;t so. We&#8217;re living in one of the most disruptive and ongoing storms of innovation we&#8217;ve ever not fully comprehended in realtime, and you only have to watch the fear and emotion spilling all over the highway to get a sense of the power of what is going on just off-stage. Twitter may appear to be a solution in search of a problem, or an eyeball machine with no business model, or just the latest rendering of high school for the techno-elite &#8211; but the panic you can smell means something&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An OODA Loop &#8220;mismatch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Wilsonianism debated<\/u><\/strong>: <strong>H-Diplo<\/strong> held a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.h-net.org\/~diplo\/roundtables\/PDF\/WilsonGreatWar-Roundtable.pdf\">roundtable discussion <\/a>\u00a0(PDF) on historian\u00a0<strong>Robert Tucker&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0813926297?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0813926297\"><strong><em>Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America&#8217;s Neutrality, 1914-1917<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0813926297\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 while <strong>Jeremy Young<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivehistorians.com\/2008\/04\/consequences-of-wilsons-truth.html\">defends Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s\u00a0reputation <\/a>at <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivehistorians.com\/\">Progressive Historians<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rightwingnuthouse.com\/index.php\">Right-wing Nuthouse<\/a><\/strong> &#8211;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rightwingnuthouse.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/02\/americas-shame\/\">AMERICA&#8217;S SHAME<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rick Moran<\/strong> takes the administration and his\u00a0fellow conservative bloggers\u00a0to task on the John Yoo toture memo. I met Rick once, as he lives not all that far up the road from me and he struck me at the time as an eminently reasonable, &#8220;common sense&#8221;\u00a0guy and mainstream &#8220;Reagan Republican&#8221;. His post only confirms my opinion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/\">Nick Carr<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/follow_the_neur.php\">Follow the neurons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On neuromarketing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/formerspook.blogspot.com\/\">In from the Cold<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/formerspook.blogspot.com\/\">The Real Obstacle to Missile Defense in Europe <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Spook on the liberal Democrats vs. NATO on missile defense.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Where action is the attraction&#8230;. Top Billing! HG&#8217;s World &#8211;The Aftermath of the &#8220;Global War on Terror&#8221; Historyguy99 surveys and comments on the multisite blogospheric discussion of civil-military relations prompted in part, by: Richard H. Kohn &#8211; Coming Soon: A Crisis in Civil-Military Relations at World Affairs Journal ( Hat tip SWJ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","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=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}