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There's the Emberverse series, starting with Dies the Fire, with SM Stirling if you want to get a little more medieval with your science fiction. There's some really engaging warfare in every book.

Peter Mansoor's "Baghdad at Sunrise" or Dexter Filkin's "The Forever War": which should I pick up next?

Isn't that essentially the contracting work that goes on now?

zenpundit tackled the problem Metz outlines in his article pretty well, from a US point of view.

At least 750,000 people disagree with you on that. And what is freedom if not having the right to partner with the person you love rather than hiding it for fear of losing your job? If freedom is a...

Did you read the Prakash essay in Joint Force Quarterly that came out earlier this month?



Seems like 13000 troops is a pretty big loss, and millions of dollars is nothing to sneeze at either....

It also gives the boot to people who want to serve, and both points suggest that it is a bad policy overall; thus why retain it? As tequila suggests, it plays both sides of inequality and doesn't...

Women more likely to be expelled under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’



Delightful.

Heh, I think more people would get tricked into philsophy if they knew that all the arguments and logic and thinking were actually just a vehicle for very dry wit.

There were several years where I read that book annually. It's wonderful, I hope you enjoy it.

So I still have time then! Time to plan ahead.

Thanks, PM FSO.

From the horse's mouth:



The rest is pages 2-12 to 2-14. Or, everything James Gavrilis writes about in The Mayor of Ar Rutbah.

Michael, Sec Gates said pretty much the same thing on Tuesday:



It seems to be turning into the party line for the administration.

This is great information, thanks everyone for sharing. I was looking at FSO positions last week, even though I'm in no real position to even thinking about applying until this time next year.
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