Octavian Manea continues his excellent series at SWJ, interviewing the leading theorists, practitioners and critics of pop-centric COIN. This most recent interview is with Dr. John Nagl, formerly president of CNAS, author of Learning how to Eat Soup with a Knife and currently a professor at the Naval War College. Nagl has been, it hardly need be [...]
Not that I'm a bitter Green Bay fan or anything... My prediction, for what its worth: Patriots 30 - Giants 24. 
[ by Charles Cameron -- complex problems and a future with drones graphically depicted ] . . . . A couple of interesting, arresting and relevant signs here… The top one is a perennial favorite, and is far too simple to represent genuine complexity with any accuracy — but still gets something of the point [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- mapping, modeling -- no, scoring complexity ] . . . . I was interested to see David Bohm‘s On Dialogue (Pegasus Communications, 1990) listed in the bibliography of Nancy Roberts‘ paper, Wicked problems and Network Approaches to Resolution, which Mike Few quoted extensively in his recent post Failing into Collaboration? [...]
[by J. Scott Shipman] To Be or To Do, the blog For the last couple of years I’ve wanted to start a blog, and feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to get my feet wet here at Zenpundit, and then a little later at Fear, Honor, and Interest. Last year, I engaged a [...]
Did you know there is a Scud missile in the lobby of the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center. A colleague sent along this little video, noting that if you look closely, there it is at 0:13! (Apparently, they also use it as a rally point as in “meet by the Scud”.) I know that the United States acquires foreign military equipment, [...]
Strategist and military analyst Frank Hoffman, now Director of National Defense University Press, takes a warm view of the new strategic guidance from DoD as a risk balancer in line with a dire fiscal and political reality. A “Pivot and Partner” strategy: DefenseNews - Pentagon’s New Guidance: Sound Strategy Intricately Linked to Policies ….Despite the fact that [...]
A fun time was had by all yesterday morning at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, DC, where I presented my research on AQ Khan and his fourth customer. (Well, perhaps there might have been a few stony faces out there.) George Perkovich moderated. I’m grateful for all of his compliments, starting with the invitation itself. [...]
The journal Asia Policy has published a “book review roundtable” with essays about Jonathan Pollack’s excellent book No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons and International Security, followed by a response essay from Pollack The Elder. I contributed one of the essays, as did Toby Dalton, Sue Terry, and Sung-Yoon Lee. Both Toby and I raised a similar [...]In a postscript of sorts to a recent debate in Australia over the supply of uranium to India, blogger and political scientist NAJ Taylor approvingly cites my recent article on the A.Q. Khan network and its fourth customer, and draws a rather strong conclusion: In a large part, Pollack has assembled evidence that makes public [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable America needs a new nuclear weapon as much as Lady Gaga needs another new . outfit Rep . Ed Markey D-MA Wednesday , January 11, 2012 The HOUR is getting late , Friends The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says It is Now 5 Minutes to Midnight . It should come as no surprise that this respected organization has moved the clock on January 10th an inch closer to the witching hour . nbsp It is black magic , indeed , that causes the clock to inch closer to midnight . nbsp As described on their : Website The Doomsday Clock conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction--the figurative midnight--and monitors the means humankind could use to
: . skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable America needs a new nuclear weapon as much as Lady Gaga needs another new . outfit Rep . Ed Markey D-MA Monday , January 9, 2012 NUKE DEBATE Let's have the real one . , Friends The front page of today's Seattle Times is embazoned with the : headline Plan for 715 million Bangor wharf fires up NUKE DEBATE Under the headline is a mammoth photo of a Trident nuclear submarine somewhere in Puget Sound near Squim . nbsp Each of these behemoths has 24 launch tubes , and is capable of carrying 24 Trident II D-5 missiles , each with a capacity of 8 warheads , each warhead being either a W76 100 kiloton or W88 475 kiloton In contrast , the Hiroshima bomb