The Greatest General
Tweet This PostThere has been quite a discussion on the nature of scholarship and generalship here, here, here, and here. Much of the discussion related to the utility of having a corpus of military...
View ArticleMounting Up with Wings as Smitten Eagle: Ethos
Tweet This PostThis is the first post in an occasional series on learning to how to fly as a Marine. I am a Marine pilot, and this is the journey I took after I earned my gold bars as a Second...
View ArticleThe Warrior-Scholar
Tweet This Post@ SmallWarsJournal Blog. To service the warrior scholar and the future warrior society needs to provide an educational framework of humanities and liberal arts that provide the essence...
View ArticleAbu Muqawama Retires
Tweet This PostAbu Muqawama is an excellent blog that is on my daily blog reading list. It focuses on counterinsurgency issues, as well as wider issues in military affairs. I tend to favor it...
View ArticleThomas PM Barnett, Rule-Sets, and Democratic Sovereignty
Tweet This PostIn a recent post on the Thomas PM Barnett Weblog, Tom laments the Irish people voting against the Lisbon Treaty: It is weird how the EU can let one country decide to run a plebiscite...
View ArticleDPRK Online
Tweet This PostYou saw it first here. The Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea, the Stalinist and terrorist government which controls the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, is online. There are...
View ArticleSustainability of Progressive Politics
Tweet This PostWhat is sustainability? It seems to be a term that has been loaded with additional baggage since the Progressives have reappropriated the term for their own use. It seems to be a word...
View ArticleAnti-Quote of the Day
Tweet This PostThomas PM Barnett: “Bottom line: mature democracies trust populists more, while authoritarian states like fellow rightists.” I like Barnett, and many of his ideas. However, quotes like...
View ArticleOn Professionalism
Tweet This PostCol Mike Wyly, of the Marines, has written a piece in Armed Forces Journal on the nature of Professionalism, using Boyd as the exemplar of the subject. The article is completely...
View ArticleSE’s Reading Program – Updated
Tweet This Post(I wrote this post for my personal blog, but Lexington Green requested that it be crossposted here. Here it is, in full, with update. There is a discussion already going at personal...
View ArticleThe Future Republican
Tweet This PostThere are three types of Republicans in the world: 1) Northeastern. These are the Rockefeller Republicans. They tend to be internationalists and fiscally conservative. This movement is...
View ArticleNow Available: SE’s Reading List
Tweet This PostI have written before on the nature of my personal reading program. Since I published that post I have received email and blog comments (both at my personal blog, and at Chicago Boyz)...
View ArticleA Strategic Clarion Call: Part I
Tweet This PostLooking at my own intellectual journey, I find that creativity usually comes in short bursts that punctuate long periods of reading, reflection, and hard work. About two weeks ago the...
View ArticleDestruction and Creation
Tweet This Post…at the cellular level. Boyd was ahead of his time.
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