1. Chet Richards has revised his online presence into a new site: Chet Richards — War, Chaos, and Business.
As he says in his first post…
It combines the Certain2Win blog and the content of Belisarius.com, both of which will be shut down by the end of the month.
I’m going to try to keep this in more of a blog format and focused on Boyd’s theories, particularly for business. The weighty stuff – defense issues, future of civilization, etc. – will stay on DNI.
I’ll also try to do more frequent postings leading up to the Adaptive Leadership Symposium on March 19th and as I get ready for the start of the executive MBA program I’ll be teaching in this fall. {the post continues with more information about “this unique event for people in the crisis response and preparedness community (which nowadays includes practically all of us). “
2. Note the links on the right-side menu bar under “Information you might find of interest!”
One of the great failings of the internet, imo, is the lack of library services. Especially the lack of a “reference desk.” Wikipedia is perhaps the closest service to this, but it is astonishingly weak in supporting links (on the other hand, it is free). For example, the entry on National Intelligence Estimates as of today gives links to only two NIE’s.
This site provides, in a small way, that service. I intend to expand these pages, and add more of them to create a reference source of information about geopolitics. Your help is appreciated, sending links to relevant articles — or to similar archives on the internet. Please email these to me (my address is at the end of this post).
From small nuts do …
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About Fabius Maximus and this blog — Self-explanatory.
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An Army near the Breaking Point — an archive of links – Links to 32 articles or reports about the Army’s greatest crisis: its increasing difficulty attracting and retaining good people. Many of these are government studies. The earliest is 2000. Please send links to any older material!
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Archive of links to articles about the Iraq War — Links to my major articles about the Iraq War (28 so far, going back to September 2003). Plus articles from other sources about the two great under-covered aspects of this conflict: the air war, and our bases in Iraq (which look quite permanent).
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Archive of US National Intelligence Estimates — Links to the recent NIEs (i.e., their declassified summaries), a link to the CIA library of NIEs, and articles about the preparation and significance of NIEs. Of special note is the Special National Intelligence Estimate (SNIE) 10-41 “The Likelihood of Japanese Military Attack” (dated 4 December 1941).
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Our Goals and Benchmarks for the Expedition to Iraq — Links to official documents stating our goals and benchmarks, and the major government and non-governmental studies of our progress towards achieving them.
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Where to go for articles about modern warfare written by some top experts — Archives of links to all the online works of Martin van Creveld, Donald Vandergriff, and David Kilcullen (please advise if I have missed any!).
Please share your comments by posting below (brief and relevant, please), or email me at fabmaximus at hotmail dot com (note the spam-protected spelling).
