{"id":3035,"date":"2009-02-20T04:24:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T04:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2009-02-20T04:24:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T04:24:25","slug":"grazia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"Grazia!"},"content":{"rendered":"

To fellow foreign policy aficianado\u00a0Pundita<\/a> <\/strong>for her unsolicited but\u00a0gracious posting (cross-posted to RBO<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>as well, doubleplusgood thanks!)\u00a0on Threats in the Age of Obama<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Despite our formidible marketing budget of $ 0, word-of-blog is the primary vehicle for raising attention on our national security project, which Pundita correctly identifies as a hard core\u00a0Think Tank 2.0<\/strong> effort committed to preservation in dead tree format. Here’s Pundita’s post:<\/p>\n

The Virtual Think Tank and thinking about security threats in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark Safranski, whose <\/strong>ZenPundit<\/strong><\/em><\/a> blog has been a staple at Pundita<\/em> since the early days, is a contributor to the newly-published <\/strong>Threats in the Age of Obama<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a collection of essays edited by <\/strong>Michael Tanji<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> ZenPundit<\/em> has <\/strong>assembled<\/strong><\/a> quotes from a few of the essays in Tanji’s book, which give an idea of the breadth of interests represented by the contributors. I haven’t yet read Threats<\/em>, and I’m not familiar with all the people that Tanji has gathered for his book (see the list of contributors below). But from the names I’m familiar with the book is a good overview of the security threats that Obama’s administration needs to deal with.<\/strong>The book is also an example of the Virtual Think Tank<\/strong><\/a>; as such it’s as much an example of cross-discipline thinking as it is a primer on this era’s security threats. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

….Tanji, a former supervisory intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, is well-aware of the limitations of the Virtual Think Tank (see his essay on the topic, which I’ve linked to above). But clearly he hopes its unfettered scope will prevent the worst oversights to arise from the blinkered research and analysis that academia produces.<\/strong>We should all hope. In this era, when a handful of people can wreak as much destruction as a million-man army, the window for saying, ‘Back to the drawing board’ is very narrow.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To fellow foreign policy aficianado\u00a0Pundita for her unsolicited but\u00a0gracious posting (cross-posted to RBO as well, doubleplusgood thanks!)\u00a0on Threats in the Age of Obama. Despite our formidible marketing budget of $ 0, word-of-blog is the primary vehicle for raising attention on our national security project, which Pundita correctly identifies as a hard core\u00a0Think Tank 2.0 effort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,133,441,572],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-book","category-pundita","category-threats-in-the-age-of-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","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=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}