Perhaps the "tension" underlying the Barnett - Schactman exchanges (Barnett responded to NMS on 11/29...more to come?) arises from NMS' sort of epiphany at Petraeus "love song" - COIN and NCW can be...
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Nick & Tom: DoD vs DoEE?
Perhaps the "tension" underlying the Barnett - Schactman exchanges (Barnett responded to NMS on 11/29...more to come?) arises from NMS' sort of epiphany at Petraeus "love song" - COIN and NCW can be...
Steve, ref "the domino theory", the fact that no...
Steve, ref "the domino theory", the fact that no dominoes fell doesn't necessarily mean the theory was invalid - just ask the dominoes whether the extra years we gave them mattered to them, and...
Max Boot arrives on time, again
Yesterday's (NYT 11/14/07 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; Send the State Department to War) Max Boot article on this topic, also blogged at Tom Barnett around his evolved idea of the national force structure to...
Seems one way to get a handle on the "global...
Seems one way to get a handle on the "global guerilla" is to regard him in the context of globalization, as discussed in, for example, TPM Barnett and T Friedman. A "flat world" with 3 zones of...
PB4 - Good job. The thread here seems to ignore...
PB4 - Good job. The thread here seems to ignore that it wasn't the VC we fought at Easter 1972, nor was it the VC who rolled into Saigon -- nor was it the VC who governed the RVN after April 1975. My...
Piled higher and deeper? Actually, a good point...
Piled higher and deeper? Actually, a good point in modern times,when degree granting institutions can be accredited by any Tom, Dick or Harry who wants to do so. However, in the case of these Ph.D...
Kilcullen via Jedburgh on same topic
SWC Thread Center of Gravity Construct #82 has Jedburg link to Kilcullen paper that kind of pulls together much of what you all have discussed, very educationally for me. Especially noted that...