Summary: Here is Chet Richard’s review of Martin van Creveld’s new book, Hitler in Hell. “It’s not exaggerating to say that this might be the most important book you’ll read this year.” “Hitler Lives?“ Review of Martin van Creveld’s Hitler in Hell. By Chet Richards at Slightly East of New. Posted with his generous permission. …
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Some articles about themes discussed on the FM website. Demographics, shaping our world India Japan American’s greatest enemy America’s rotten boroughs — States with 2 Senators, but few people (1) About Demographics Excerpt from “Falling fertility“, The Economist, 29 October 2009 — “Astonishing falls in the fertility rate are bringing with them big benefits”
Today’s post examines advice to us from historian Steven Pressfield: “The real enemy in Afghanistan isn’t Islamism or jihadism. It’s tribalism. … Can we Westerners impose ‘citizen values’ on a tribal society?” (from his website) Some people say our real enemy in Afghanistan is their religion. Pressfield says our enemy is their form of society. Both sides agree that they cannot …
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The plan for victory in Afghanistan is simple and sure: stabilizing the country by garrisoning the main routes, major cities, airbases and logistics sites; relieving the Afghan government forces of garrison duties and pushing them into the countryside to battle the resistance; providing logistic, air, artillery and intelligence support to the Afghan forces; providing minimum …
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It’s nice to see the New York Times quote a real expert when discussing modern warfare, instead of the posers they usually interview. It’s well-deserved attention to DNI. From the “Morning Skim: Torture Foiled Nothing“, Eric Etheridge, posted at The Opinionator (a blog of the New York Times), 23 April 2009 — Excerpt: Defense and the …
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