{"id":4294,"date":"2011-09-01T04:50:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T04:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2011-09-01T04:50:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T04:50:12","slug":"reading-lists-and-the-wit-of-joseph-fouche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4294","title":{"rendered":"Reading Lists and the Wit of Joseph Fouche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gem at <strong>Fear, Honor and Interest<\/strong> by <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com\/\">Joseph Fouche<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fearhonorinterest.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/28\/the-really-alternative-u-s-army-reading-list\/#more-398\">The Really Alternative U.S. Army Reading\u00a0List<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Everyone, even\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cnas.org\/blogs\/abumuqawama\/2011\/08\/alternative-us-army-professional-reading-list.html\"><strong>CNASistas<\/strong><\/a><strong>, is making fun of new U.S. Army Chief of Staff\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Dempsey\"><strong>Gen. Martin Dempsey&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a026 volume attempt at a &#8220;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.army.mil\/html\/books\/105\/105-1-1\/CMH_Pub_105-1-1.pdf\"><strong>professional reading list<\/strong><\/a><strong>&#8220;. This Committee, ever eager to jump on the newest, hippest trend out of the Pentagon, is as willing to dogpile on Gen. Dempsey&#8217;s list as anyone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Any list that includes one, let alone two, books by the\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Friedman\"><strong>Mustache of Understanding<\/strong><\/a><strong>, is instantly marked &#8220;self-parody&#8221; in the Committee&#8217;s collective INBOX and deleted. After touching any field of human inquiry, the Mustache of Understanding leaves PowerPoint in his wake and calls it wisdom. The Mustache of Understanding&#8217;s works may be of interest to future historians looking back on our age. But that sort of interest will be the same sort of forensic interest that epidemiologists summon when examining smallpox under a microscope in a cleanroom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the spirit of fairness to the good general, the Committee here offers up its own twenty-six books for the aspiring strategic professional&#8230;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fearhonorinterest.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/28\/the-really-alternative-u-s-army-reading-list\/#more-398\">a good reading list too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A line in there qualifies for<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theglitteringeye.com\/?p=14450\"> Dave Schuler&#8217;s Imaginative Polemic collection<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gem at Fear, Honor and Interest by Joseph Fouche: The Really Alternative U.S. Army Reading\u00a0List Everyone, even\u00a0CNASistas, is making fun of new U.S. Army Chief of Staff\u00a0Gen. Martin Dempsey&#8217;s\u00a026 volume attempt at a &#8220;professional reading list&#8220;. This Committee, ever eager to jump on the newest, hippest trend out of the Pentagon, is as willing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,46,321,68,371,596,445,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-analytic","category-blogosphere","category-fun","category-humor","category-josephfouche","category-reading","category-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","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=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}