Hiroshima, sixty years ago today.I wonder what it is like to have the entire history of one's city so tightly bound to a day, and afternoon, a moment that it's not even necessary to mention what happened on that day, but rather just to say...
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I'm surprised that the meaning of Cornershop's classic "Brimful of Asha" remains obscure to some music fans; it's part of a great tradition pop music. "Pictures of Lily," "Blister in.
when idiots misunderstand the Battle of Guadalcanal.Wretchard, at the Belmont Club, is a moron:Bin Laden understood and accepted that American logistics, technology and science would be superior to his own..
I’ve been tagged by Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva. Unfortunately, it’s kind of hard for me to remember my younger years, for some reason. Nevertheless, I’ll give it a try. I'm interpreting teen/young adult to mean pre-collegiate, so all of these are books that...
Part I: Foreign Policy ConflictI argued in the first part of this series that the United States and China have relatively few direct foreign policy disputes, and even fewer that.
Where do China and the US disagree? Before we start thinking about the geopolitical implications of increasing Chinese power, let’s think about the actual disagreements that might spark conflict. Stalin.
"“There’s one thing I don’t understand. The thing that I don’t understand is every motherfucking word you’re saying.”- The LimeyVia Matt Yglesias, this post is worthy of a couple thorough debunkings. I'll post more on the China military problem later, but let's take a look...
Social Security ain't the only evil FDR brought to the world:Second-guessing Franklin D. Roosevelt,President Bush said Saturday the United States played a role in Europe's painful division after World War.
A reader asks the following question:Could you explain to me why it's bad to derive capabilites from intentions?I understand that it produces inaccurate intelligence estimates and that you can't actually.
Last Tuesday, I sat on a panel following a screening of Errol Morris' Fog of War. The panel went very well; the speakers all had interesting things to say, the questions were good, and a fair percentage of the audience stayed after the film ended....
Bill at By Dawn's Early Light has put together a nice post that considers China's expanding power and constructs what might be a reasonable approach to containing that power, especially.
Be sure to read this article from Tuesday's NYT. It highlights a set of problems associated with naval procurement, although I think it misses one of the biggest ones, which.