{"id":63067,"date":"2019-03-03T00:16:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T00:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=63067"},"modified":"2019-03-03T00:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T00:20:17","slug":"its-snowing-metaphoric-chyrons-ignore-unless-interested-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=63067","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s snowing metaphoric chyrons, ignore unless interested 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — a bit of a hodge-podge, also known as an olla podrida — i hope you’ll find it tasty! ]
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Headlines, no chyrons:<\/p>\n

You know, I think this is the first bazooka <\/strong>metaphor I’ve seen since I started looking:<\/p>\n

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**<\/p>\n

Game, war-game<\/strong> and game theoretical<\/strong> references, as you know, are always of interest to me, but the addition of a nuclear component makes such references irresistible:<\/p>\n

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Sample paragraph:<\/p>\n

As Trump sought to persuade Kim to give up his nuclear weapons, enticing his young \u201cfriend\u201d with visions of a disarmed North Korea as an \u201cEconomic Powerhouse,\u201d India and Pakistan were trading blows in a case study of what conflict looks like when countries successfully obtain nuclear weapons despite international opposition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Latest on that:<\/p>\n

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  • BBC<\/strong>, Abhinandan: Crowds gather for Indian pilot’s release<\/a><\/li>\n

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    Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said the pilot would be released as a “peace gesture” on Friday. India’s military welcomed the move.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Ali Minai <\/strong>comments on FB:<\/p>\n

    Not only the right and mature thing to do, but also a great tactical move. The Pakistan government- the PM, the opposition, and the military – have handled the situation with great skill – a benefit of “unified command and control”. Even the media in Pakistan has not gone completely nuts – though the same can’t be said for some of the Indian media. Both sides seem to have de-escalated, but it is too early to breathe a sigh of relief given Pakistan’s fragile economic state and the temptation of the electoral benefits of belligerence on the Indian side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    And then there’s this:<\/p>\n

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  • Small Wars Journal<\/strong>, US offers $1 million reward for information on Hamza bin Laden<\/a><\/li>\n

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    There’s an obvious DQ there with his father’s wanted listing<\/strong> with a bounty on his <\/em>head.<\/p>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    I thought this was an eye-catching description of doctrine, used as an epigraph to the UK Doctrine of War:<\/p>\n

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    I cam by it via a War on the Rocks<\/strong> piece, Mal Craghill<\/strong>‘s Thinking about thinking in the Royal Air Force<\/a>, which pointed me to the UK Doctrine document<\/a>. I syuspect that document may be worth a post exploring the conceptual <\/strong>and moral<\/strong> components of war (the physical component is not in my bailiwick), and in particular how the moral component<\/strong> and morale <\/strong>are related. TBD.<\/p>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    Back to politics, US:<\/p>\n

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  • WaPo<\/strong>, House Democrats exploded in recriminations<\/a>\n

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    Fighting words<\/strong>, if that ain’t a contradiction in terms:<\/p>\n

    House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatening to put those voting with Republicans \u201con a list\u201d for a primary challenge.<\/p>\n

    In a closed-door session, a frustrated Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lashed out at about two dozen moderates and pressured them to get on board. \u201cWe are either a team or we\u2019re not, and we have to make that decision,\u201d Pelosi said, according to two people present but not authorized to discuss the remarks publicly.<\/p>\n

    But Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the unquestioned media superstar of the freshman class, upped the ante, admonishing the moderates and indicating she would help liberal activists unseat them in the 2020 election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    That’s enough for now. I’ve a blizzard coming..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [ by Charles Cameron — a bit of a hodge-podge, also known as an olla podrida — i hope you’ll find it tasty! ] . Headlines, no chyrons: You know, I think this is the first bazooka metaphor I’ve seen since I started looking: ** Game, war-game and game theoretical references, as you know, are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1777,459,1314,653,529,90,684,1,1363,1829],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ali-minai","category-bin-laden","category-donald-trump","category-game-theory","category-games","category-nuclear","category-nuclear-diner","category-uncategorized","category-war-games","category-weaponry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63067","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63067"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63129,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63067\/revisions\/63129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}