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Top Billing!<\/strong> Dr. Phil Williams<\/strong> at SSI\u00a0<\/strong>– FROM THE NEW MIDDLE AGES TO A NEW DARK AGE: THE DECLINE OF THE STATE AND U.S. STRATEGY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite my confidence\u00a0 in economic flows, I’m featuring the “Forces of Darkness” today. Williams is the ” new van Creveld”. Amusing, considering the hard feelings <\/a>that SSI’s research director <\/a>has toward 4GW.\u00a0Hat tip to Dr. Chet Richards<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MountainRunner<\/a> –<\/strong> “Combat Robots and Perception Management<\/a>” in SERVIAM<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>magazine.<\/p>\n

Matt goes William Gibson<\/strong> on us but he’s absolutely on track. I notice that the actual U.S. military robots featured look a great deal like the crap prototype terminators released by the female Terminator villain in Terminator III<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Glittering Eye<\/a><\/strong> – Pundits Wanted: No Life Experience Necessary (Updated)<\/a><\/p>\n

Longtime blogfriend Dave Schuler<\/strong> picks on some targets of his own\u00a0intellectual size – Judge Richard Posner<\/strong> and Professor Gary Becker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Wizards of Oz<\/a> <\/strong>– DHS S&T Summary <\/a><\/p>\n

Shane reviews a deceptively exciting, blogger-filled <\/a>DC conference ( that he also liveblogged<\/a>) \u00a0that featured…well…some things that never made it into Shane’s review.<\/p>\n

Art Hutchinson<\/a><\/strong> – Thinking Exotically<\/a>\u00a0and Obstacles to Prediction Market Adoption<\/a><\/p>\n

Art is one of those uber-smart bloggers whose posts ( which are all too seldom) could change how<\/u><\/strong> you think.\u00a0 Not your opinion but your cognitive methodology.<\/p>\n

Rick Shenkman <\/strong>at HNN<\/a><\/strong> – American Democracy: The 10 Alarm Fire We’re Ignoring<\/a><\/p>\n

Voting is a lot like jury duty and the making of sausages….best not to look too closely.<\/p>\n

Registan<\/a>.net<\/strong> – Fundamentals: The Problem of Debt<\/a><\/p>\n

Debt, like wealth, is relative; but in CA\/SEA it can make for a\u00a0debt-peonage system that makes sharecropping look enlightened.<\/p>\n

SWJ Blog<\/a> <\/strong>– Hey…George Thorogood is still alive !<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top Billing! Dr. Phil Williams at SSI\u00a0– FROM THE NEW MIDDLE AGES TO A NEW DARK AGE: THE DECLINE OF THE STATE AND U.S. STRATEGY Despite my confidence\u00a0 in economic flows, I’m featuring the “Forces of Darkness” today. Williams is the ” new van Creveld”. Amusing, considering the hard feelings that SSI’s research director has […]<\/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-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}