September 2011
22 posts
America’s War in the North Atlantic http://j.mp/p9fQBY
Sep 29th
Can China Stop U.S. Airpower? →
Image via Wikipedia Access Challenges and Implications for Airpower in the Western Pacific by Eric Stephen Gons Pardee Rand Graduate School May 2010 266pp. As…
Sep 29th
Joe Wilson, Xerox, and the Future of American Business http://t.co/xJix85vZ
Sep 28th
Joe Wilson, Xerox, and the Future of American... →
Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox by Charles D. Ellis Wiley, September 2006, 404 pp. Great books have a regrettable tendency to get lost in an age when 3,000 new English tomes…
Sep 28th
Giving Mozilla Thunderbird one more try, using 6.0.2. If that doesn’t work, Sparrow becomes my permanent choice for an e-mail client on Mac
Sep 23rd
The Pacific War According to MacArthur →
Image via Wikipedia There are histories aplenty of World War II in the Pacific, and the biographies of General Douglas MacArthur would fill a long bookshelf. Anyone interested in…
Sep 22nd
The Pacific War According to MacArthur http://t.co/J8RTI0KQ
Sep 22nd
Are the Afghans Learning to Defend Themselves? →
Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan: Identifying Lessons for Future Efforts | RAND. Stripping the politics and the rhetoric out of the question, RAND scholars Terrence Kelly, Nora Bensahel,…
Sep 21st
Are the Afghans Learning to Defend Themselves? http://t.co/uDS17OLt
Sep 21st
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“As you get older you find out the place where you started out pulls at you...”
– Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Sep 18th
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The Last Rant
lareviewofbooks: ALEC ASH on Ai Weiwei’s electronic provocations. Collage by Lisa Jane Persky includes an image by stunned (CC) Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009 Edited and translated by Lee Ambrozy MIT Press, April 2011. 241 pp. On May 28, 2009, the readers of artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s blog — hosted on Sina, a popular Chinese internet...
Sep 18th
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“And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of...”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Sep 18th
A Primer for Afghan Peace Talks →
Image via Wikipedia It seems likely that the focus in Afghanistan is going to shift away from eliminating the Taliban to finding a negotiated solution for coexistence between the…
Sep 17th
RT @wolfgroupasia: Weekend reading: 2 quarters of CEQ http://t.co/X5vqG0mq and L2’s China Prestige 100 survey. http://t.co/g0ie0sRU
Sep 16th
So What Did YOU Do in the War, Daddy http://t.co/HxwZpxc9
Sep 15th
Dealing with a Nuclear Iran http://j.mp/qkjatQ
Sep 12th
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Creative Destruction
lareviewofbooks: THOMAS S. HINES on the architectural legacy of World War II. Willow Run Bomber Plant, Michigan, ca. 1941; Architect: Albert Kahn Jean-Louis Cohen Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War Editions Hazan, 2011. 448 pp. In 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of Futurism and later supporter of Mussolini, wrote in the Futurist Manifesto,...
Sep 11th
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Sep 11th
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How Intelligence Helped Turn the Tide Against Japan http://t.co/JSJzQyx
Sep 11th
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Sep 10th
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Russian Nukes and European Security http://j.mp/o4AfTj
Sep 9th
Who will Win? India, or China? http://t.co/auuAvdE
Sep 8th