Thoughtful post, one that addresses the dynamic of takfirism blowback without drinking the kool-ade on “civil wars” within al Qaida ( it’s a civil war when they start wacking each other in Waziristan coffee shops and Paktia caves)<\/p>\n
William Lind<\/strong> – “On War # 260: Ancient History<\/a>”<\/p>\n Lind reviews Military Reform: A Reference Handbook<\/em><\/a><\/strong> John Hagel<\/a><\/strong> -“Innovation on the Edge<\/a>”<\/p>\n Reintroduction to Hagel’s premises about “edge” advantages. Hagel posts seldom but is always in the “must-read” category for me.<\/p>\n Information Dissemination<\/a><\/strong> -“Weekend Observations<\/a>”<\/p>\n Galrahn’s<\/strong> recommended reading on oceanic matters ( ahem…”Naval gazing”)<\/p>\n MountainRunner<\/a><\/strong>-“Censoring the United States, Preventing Domestic Discourse<\/a>” and “Propaganda Is Now Officially Hip (Updated)”<\/a><\/p>\n I hereby nominate Matt Armstrong<\/strong> for Public Diplomacy\/IO Czar in the next administration. He is the go-to guy on the intersection of IO, public policy, politics and law.<\/p>\n Cognitive Daily<\/a><\/strong> -“History Week: Gestalt-o-mania!<\/a>”<\/p>\n Dave “The Hand of Munger” Munger<\/strong> has some great visuals to go with his explanation of Gestalt theory<\/p>\n Bing West<\/strong> at SWJ Blog<\/strong> <\/a>-“War and Indecision<\/a>”<\/p>\n Bing West pens the first positive review of the Feith memoir that I’ve seen<\/p>\n Science News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> -“Less is more:A tight grip can be counterproductive<\/a>”<\/p>\n This may well explain North Korea<\/p>\n Dreaming5GW<\/a><\/strong> -“Triangulating Clausewitz and Boyd<\/a>”<\/p>\n Curtis has returned to the blogosphere\u00a0in full force with this mil-theory post!<\/p>\n Dr. Michael Scheuer<\/strong> -“Missing the Point – Catastrophically<\/a>”<\/p>\n U.S. borders, al Qaida and nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n SEED<\/a><\/em><\/strong> -“Distant Mirrors<\/a>”<\/p>\n Finding life on other planets has a lot to do with how we search<\/p>\n In From the Cold<\/a><\/strong> -“Searching for that Proverbial Dark Lining<\/a>”<\/p>\n Former Spook doesn’t like how the media is spinning the intel reports to Congress<\/p>\n CTLab<\/a><\/strong> -“Here\/There Be Dragons – Metaphor &\u00a0Cyberspace<\/a>”<\/p>\n Money quote: “Now there’s a metaphor. I’m guessing, though, that the marketers aren’t going to allow “miasma computing” into our vocabulary. It’s kind of a downer.”<\/strong><\/p>\n The Claremont Institute<\/a><\/strong> -“Our American Mind for War<\/a>”<\/p>\n Book review. Intellectual-military history.<\/p>\n The National Security Archive<\/a><\/strong> -“The Moscow Summit Twenty Years Later<\/a>”<\/p>\n A literal treasure trove of primary source Cold War\u00a0docs.<\/p>\n State Department E-Journal USA<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a> – “New Ways of Seeing and Thinking<\/a>”<\/p>\n The PC\/multi-culti ideology that infects our better universities that send grads into the Foreign Service is mostly\u00a0intellectually specious, illiberal,\u00a0crap. That being said, defending “diversity” on the grounds of cognitive differences and economic and cultural enrichment is a large step forward ( the silk purse in this particular pig’s ear).<\/p>\n That’s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is Hell Week for me, and as\u00a0I may not be able to post at all for the next few days due to a heavy schedule, \u00a0I decided\u00a0to “go long” on this particular edition of recommended reading. Also feel free to sound off in the comments on any topic you like as I’ll check those […]<\/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-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","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=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0275993493\")