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[by Mark Safranski<\/strong>, a.k.a. “zen<\/strong>“]<\/p>\n Busy writing a book review for Pragati Magazine<\/a><\/strong> that should be published on Friday. In lieu of a post, I wanted to make a few completely disconnected observations.<\/p>\n First, Charles Cameron<\/strong>\u00a0in his recent post on Pattern Recognition<\/a> had a link to an interesting paper, “Outline of a Psychology of War”<\/a>,<\/strong> that I did not want readers to miss.<\/p>\n Secondly, there is a bitterly apoplectic piece on The Tea Party and National Security<\/a><\/strong> by conservative defense intellectual Dov Zakheim<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>that should stir some debate.<\/p>\n In a move that meshes the paranoid control-freakishness of some senior military leaders, penny-wise and pound-foolish military budget cutting, a political desire to outsource futurism to crony capitalists like Goldman Sachs<\/strong>, and the zealous intolerance of the administration’s “Chicago wing” for dissenting opinions or even informed advice – creeping apparatchiks in the Obama administration<\/strong> have<\/a> their<\/a> knives<\/a> out for Andrew Marshall<\/strong> <\/a>and the<\/a> Office of Net Assessment. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n