Month: December 2017

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Time to Believe

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On December 6, 2017
You’ve probably already seen the news that Time‘s Person of the Year for 2017 is the collective of “Silence-Breakers” who have bravely stepped forward to accuse their harassers and abusers. Usually, my writing philosophy (perhaps overly conditioned conditioned by the academy and the publishing industry) involves finding stories you might not have come across on […]
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Indo-Pacific

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On December 6, 2017
I ruminate a bit about the term “Indo-Pacific” over at the Diplomat: The term was found in print in contemporary usage in 1993 (and again by Gurpreet S. Khurana in 2007), to describe the increasingly dense nature of maritime networks of trade and contact in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. U.S. policymakers began to adopt the term more […]

John Anderson

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On December 6, 2017

I suppose it’s worth mentioning the death of John Anderson. As someone who has thought a good bit about vanity third parties presidential campaigns, largely with pure contempt for them and the p

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To quote Matthew Walther: “The next time [Sasse] sits down to compose one of his lachrymose open letters to his decadent countrymen in the hope of making sense of why we have President Trump, the junior senator from Nebraska should consider looking in the mirror.” It remains to be seen if we can add “and […]
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Air, Cyber, Space

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On December 5, 2017
A couple weeks ago I had the chance to jabber with Mark Duckenfield of the Army War College about independent services; space, cyber, and air.  Long story short, the logic that gets you an independent Cyber Force or an independent Space Force is just as flawed as the logic that got us the USAF.  I […]

The Monuments

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On December 4, 2017

I hate these people so much. President Donald Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah on Monday by some two million acres, the largest rollback of federal land protection in t

Romney and Trump

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On December 4, 2017

Without at all questioning Nate Silver’s statistical analysis, it has seemed to me in the last year that he has been getting a bit high on that Beltway supply, wanting to believe that the realit

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