Articles reposted from Stratfor, with their generous permission.
Summary: This post examines one of the best and most influential articles written to guide our Middle Eastern Wars, using it to illustrate serious — perhaps decisive — flaws in our thinking. Not just our strategic thinking, but the very way we see the world. On this site “we” usually means America, but in this …
Summary: This is part 2 in a series looking at the Iraq War. Advice from past to the present. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — Advice from Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith in a letter to President Kennedy, dated 2 March 1962, printed in Galbraith’s Ambassador’s …
Here are some speculative thoughts on the Plame Affair seen through the prism of two familiar DNI themes: the Decline of the State and 4GW. We will start slowly, attempting to clear away details that obscure the important underlying meanings.What is the Plame affair not about? 1. This is not a policy dispute, certainly not …
Contents Introduction How war is fought Who fights it? Why they fight (what they fight for) How I learned to stop worrying and love Fourth Generation War Beyond FMFM 1-A Conclusion Some Additional Thoughts about FMFM 1-A on the Fourth of July (1)Â Introduction Lind and his co-authors are doing one of the most important …
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