Strategerizing Mark IV

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A bit more on airpower, seapower, and strategic theorizing: The ongoing debates over airpower theory, seapower theory, and strategic theory more generally have glided over three issues: the division between domains of action, the division between military and civilian contributions, and the increasingly transnational nature of the modern strategic...

Good Riddance, Chained CPI

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Obama has gone from nominally supporting Social Security cuts attached to conditions that ensured they couldn't pass to explicitly not supporting them, and good. This comments thread is now particularly entertaining reading if you're a connoisseur of very high arrogance-to-knowledge ratios.

Ukraine

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If you are like me, you know basically nothing about Ukraine and the protests going on there. This was tremendously useful. In part: More subtly, what this campaign does is attempt to reduce the social tensions in a complex country to a battle of symbols about...
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Me on what Spike Jonze teaches us about him in Her

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My new "Internet Film School" column is up. Sample: Typically, romances rely on a small stable of predictable-but-effective techniques that convince the audience it’s witnessing the first, chemical blush of fresh love. The most basic of these techniques is the two-shot, in which the director places...

Cossacks!

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19th century tool of Russian authoritarianism, meet 21st century Russian anarchist performance art collective: Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the group tried.

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