Hint: You need to know your Boyd.
British political consultant James Frayne at Campaign War Room explains:
Creating an effective war room
….War rooms are therefore places which can pull in relevant information, which can process it effectively by working out what is most important at a given moment, and which can make timely decisions as a result [...]
James McCormick is a long time member of Chicago Boyz blog and is the author of many a stellar book review.
[Originally cross-posted at Chicago Boyz]
CIA Leviathan Wakes Up and Hunts Ishmael
by James McCormick
Word came early last week from the Washington Times and Washington Post, while I was away on vacation, that Ishmael Jones, pseudonymous author [...]
The era of modern cruise missiles began when the Nixon administration was looking for leverage in arms control negotiations with the Kremlin. Nixon and Kissinger did not fare well in the SALT talks, in part because the Soviet Union was building up ballistic missile force levels while the United States was leveling them off. So [...]
Charles Cameron is the regular guest-blogger at Zenpundit, and has also posted at Small Wars Journal, All Things Counterterrorism, for the Chicago Boyz Afghanistan 2050 roundtable and elsewhere. Charles read Theology at Christ Church, Oxford, under AE Harvey, and was at one time a Principal Researcher with Boston University’s Center for Millennial Studies and the Senior Analyst with [...]
Olli Heinonen has given Yossi Melman a long interview in Ha’aretz regarding the IAEA’s work in Iran. It is a must read, including the section on Iran’s technical challenges. Heinonen argues that Iran is slowed not by sabotage, but by the limitations of the P1 design and the difficulty of acquiring components: Heinonen believes that [...]
Under what conditions is the United States government prepared to meet with North Korea to discuss its nuclear program? Back in late August, Washington brushed off Pyongyang’s expressions of willingness to return to the Six-Party Talks. The North Koreans lately have gone further, affirming through the Foreign Ministry (via KCNA) that they are prepared to [...]This is very interesting. The US and South Korea, in the 42nd U.S.-RoK Security Consultative Meeting Joint Communique, have committed to … … institutionalize an Extended Deterrence Policy Committee, which will serve as a cooperation mechanism to enhance the effectiveness of extended deterrence. That is a very interesting recommendation. The United States has a formal [...]Money is the mother’s milk of politics; motivation is the mother’s milk of the politics of treaty ratification. Arms control battles in the United States tend to be uneven fights — and not just because skeptics need only 34 votes to quash a treaty in the Senate. The “arms control lobby” has not been known [...]I have a commentary over at 38 North about the political symbolism of North Korea’s construction/excavation activities near the ruins of the Yongbyon reactor’s cooling tower: What is clear is the political symbolism of the site itself. The Six Party Process, at least as we knew it, is dead and buried. The trucks and other [...]
Many years ago, I managed to convince VERTIC’s then Executive Director, Michael Crowley, to send me on a two day trip to Vienna just to meet with our friends at the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization. During those days, the treaty’s verification regime was still half built, and the building was buzzing with activity. [...]