{"id":3415,"date":"2010-05-13T03:13:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T03:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2010-05-13T03:13:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T03:13:30","slug":"a-new-bloghome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3415","title":{"rendered":"A New Bloghome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/img.infibeam.com\/img\/79488300\/76120\/BE\/PDF\/P-M-B-9780385520089-BEPDF.jpg\" height=\"568\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steven Pressfield<\/strong>, author, historian and this year, blogger has made a major revision of his blog, originally an Afghan War-centric\u00a0site\u00a0known as <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s the Tribes, Stupid!&#8221;.<\/strong>\u00a0Pressfield has relaunched the blog\u00a0today\u00a0with a sharp new site redesign, a\u00a0broader\u00a0focus and a\u00a0new\u00a0expert\u00a0co-blogger, as:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenpressfield.com\/\">Steven Pressfield Online<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steve has enlisted scholar-soldier\u00a0<strong>William S.\u00a0&#8220;Mac&#8221; McCallister<\/strong>\u00a0to apply his experience in military affairs and irregular warfare at <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/agora.stevenpressfield.com\/\">Agora<\/a><\/strong>, a page which will cover the subjects and news formerly housed at &#8220;Tribes, where Mac has already put up his first post:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/agora.stevenpressfield.com\/2010\/05\/the-reality\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to The Reality\">The Reality<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Often, ideas are discounted because they don&#8217;t mesh with someone else&#8217;s concept of reality. I was on the receiving <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"130\" src=\"http:\/\/humanterrainmovie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/mcallister.jpg\" height=\"99\" \/>end myself recently, related to <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/some-considerations-for-planni\/\"><strong>my latest recommendations<\/strong><\/a><strong> for prosecuting the war in Afghanistan. And, well, I&#8217;ve shot down the ideas of others in the past, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>End of day, we have to consider the different realities-because the one thing I think we can all agree on is that, in Afghanistan in particular, there&#8217;s no one-size-fits-all solution, because the realities on the ground vary so greatly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Agora&#8221; is a place to consider all of the realities<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steven will be blogging on &#8220;Writing Wednesdays&#8221; creativity and other themes on his page, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenpressfield.com\/category\/creative-process\/\">The Creative Process<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and, I expect, popping in from time to time on <strong>Agora<\/strong> as well when the mood strikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Steven Pressfield, author, historian and this year, blogger has made a major revision of his blog, originally an Afghan War-centric\u00a0site\u00a0known as &#8220;It&#8217;s the Tribes, Stupid!&#8221;.\u00a0Pressfield has relaunched the blog\u00a0today\u00a0with a sharp new site redesign, a\u00a0broader\u00a0focus and a\u00a0new\u00a0expert\u00a0co-blogger, as: Steven Pressfield Online\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Steve has enlisted scholar-soldier\u00a0William S.\u00a0&#8220;Mac&#8221; McCallister\u00a0to apply his experience in military affairs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,420,129,2,20,126,471,215,87,39,367,372,268,558,594,312,18,217,557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-authors","category-blogging","category-blogroll","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-cultural-intelligence","category-culture","category-foreign-policy","category-military","category-military-history","category-non-state-actors","category-social-networks","category-social-science","category-steven-pressfield","category-tribes","category-war","category-warriors","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","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=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}