{"id":2743,"date":"2008-06-11T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2008-06-11T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T02:30:08","slug":"democracy-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much thanks to <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hiddenunities.wordpress.com\/\">Eddie Beaver<\/a><\/strong> and<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/\"> <strong>Lexington Green<\/strong> <\/a>who separately but nearly simultaneously sent me links this morning to a very fine e-zine,\u00a0<strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyjournal.org\/\">Democracy Journal.org<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. What caught their eye were the following articles by some familiar names:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyjournal.org\/article.php?ID=6625\">Pentagon 2.0<\/a>&#8221; by <strong>Colonel T.X. Hammes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The author of the critically acclaimed\u00a0<strong><em>The Sling and the Stone<\/em><\/strong> reviews the latest book by another premier military theorist, <strong>John Arquilla&#8217;s<em> <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/32324\/s?kw=worst%20enemy%20arquilla\"><em><strong>Worst Enemy<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0and finds it wanting<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyjournal.org\/article.php?ID=6619\">Return of the Jihadi<\/a>&#8221; by <strong>Andrew Exum<\/strong> a.k.a. &#8220;<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abumuqawama.blogspot.com\/\">Abu Muqawama<\/a><\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Exum methodically analyzes the implications of &#8220;when Omar comes marching home&#8221; and offers sensible\u00a0solutions I would describe as &#8220;Interagency COIN Jointness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Parenthetical aside: One side\u00a0effect of the GWOT\/Iraq War\/Afghanistan, I think we shall see in the coming decade,\u00a0is to have created a generation of future policy makers and statesmen like we have not seen since WWII.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much thanks to Eddie Beaver and Lexington Green who separately but nearly simultaneously sent me links this morning to a very fine e-zine,\u00a0Democracy Journal.org. What caught their eye were the following articles by some familiar names: &#8220;Pentagon 2.0&#8221; by Colonel T.X. Hammes The author of the critically acclaimed\u00a0The Sling and the Stone reviews the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,216,321,493,331,78,207,199,336,499,438,49,39,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-academia","category-blogosphere","category-eddie","category-hammes","category-ideas","category-illegal-combatants","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-islamic-world","category-john-arquilla","category-lexington-green","category-military","category-military-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","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=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}