{"id":2796,"date":"2008-07-20T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2008-07-20T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T18:49:55","slug":"recommended-reading-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2796","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kind a quick today<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Billing! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/\">SWJ Blog<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/is-counterinsurgency-the-gradu\/\">Is Counterinsurgency the Graduate Level of War?<\/a>\u00a0 &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/counterinsurgency-principles-f\/\">Counterinsurgency Principles for the Diplomat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/seanmeade.blogspot.com\/\">Sean Meade<\/a><\/strong> at<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckBlogId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7\"> <strong>ARES <\/strong><\/a>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a2410837c-a688-49e9-9c92-4cd95d2bd70b&amp;plckCommentSortOrder=TimeStampAscending\" id=\"postTitle\">Aviation Week F-22 Farnborough Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An amazing plane, no argument. Next gen tech when our adversaries still don&#8217;t have last gen ( maybe the Air force will use it against the Marines \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 )<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/duckofminerva.blogspot.com\/\">The Duck of Minerva<\/a><\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/duckofminerva.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/war-and-punishment.html\">War and punishment<\/a> (<strong>Dr. Dan<\/strong>) &amp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/duckofminerva.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/why-not-assassinate-mugabe.html\"><strike>Why Not<\/strike> Assassinate Mugabe? Why Not To.<\/a>\u00a0(<strong>Dr. Charli<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Vibrant discussion in the Mugabe post, some <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.terraplexic.org\/review\/\">CTLab<\/a><\/strong> compadres there as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/\">Thomas P.M. Barnett<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2008\/jul\/20\/fewer-wars-more-consumers-thanks-to\/\">Globalizations means fewer wars, less death<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nice antidote to the Stiglitz I am reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.terraplexic.org\/review\/\">CTLab <\/a><\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terraplexic.org\/review\/2008\/7\/17\/afghanistan-96-the-legacy-of-information-failures.html\">Afghanistan &#8217;96: The Legacy of Information\u00a0Failures<\/a>\u00a0 (<strong>Bleuer<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/index.php\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em><\/strong> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/story\/cms.php?story_id=4349\">The World&#8217;s Top 20 Public Intellectuals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite a weird list, dominated by Muslim scholars, some of whom are globally known like Tariq Ramadan and others who are obscure, at least to me. Few scientists or economists made the cut.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tdaxp.com\/\">tdaxp.com<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tdaxp.com\/archive\/2008\/07\/18\/some-thoughts-on-creative-self-efficacy.html\" title=\"Permanent Link to Some Thoughts on Creative Self-Efficacy\">Some Thoughts on Creative Self-Efficacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dan drills down on creativity research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sally K. Horn<\/strong> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afsa.org\/fsj\/index.cfm\"><strong><em>Foreign Service<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afsa.org\/fsj\/june08\/rewardingFunctional.pdf\">Rewarding Functional Policy Expertise<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Horn takes on the cocked up personnel system and career incentives for FSO&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Steven Metz<\/strong>\u00a0 at <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil\/\">SSI<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil\/pdffiles\/PUB875.pdf\">Expand the U.S. Military? Not So Fast <\/a>(PDF)<\/p>\n<p>Op-ed piece. SWC member Metz calls for spending on a wider range of options than just more boots<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hayden B. Peake<\/strong> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence\/csi-publications\/csi-studies\/studies\/vol52no2\/index.html\"><strong><em>Studies in Intelligence<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>&#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence\/csi-publications\/csi-studies\/studies\/vol52no2\/intelligence-in-recent-public-literature.html\">The Intelligence Officer&#8217;s Bookshelf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Books of interest reviewed by Peake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind a quick today. Top Billing! SWJ Blog &#8211; Is Counterinsurgency the Graduate Level of War?\u00a0 &amp; Counterinsurgency Principles for the Diplomat Sean Meade at ARES &#8211; Aviation Week F-22 Farnborough Video An amazing plane, no argument. Next gen tech when our adversaries still don&#8217;t have last gen ( maybe the Air force will use [&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-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","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=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}