"“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...
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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.
Lots of good points made and questions asked in the Chinese Military Preparation comments below, so let me answer in a new post.The article cites anonymous Pentagon officials and defense analysts in support of the claim that the Chinese could seize Taiwan before the United...
It's not to my credit that it took the best April. Fool's. joke. ever. to remind me, but Fred Korematsu has passed away. We should never forget that Korematsu was.
Part I Part II Two Royal Navy admirals had a chance to stop, or at least slow, Goeben and Breslau. Admiral Archibald Milne had under his command the battlecruisers Inflexible,.
Yglesias, Justin Logan, and Tim Lee have been having a conversation about the utility of international institutions. More or less, Yglesias argues that John Bolton is a bad guy for wanting to kill the UN rather than reform it, Logan suggests that Yglesias is a...
The Tokyo fire raid was sixty years ago yesterday. 334 USAAF B-29s, each stripped of armament because the Japanese didn't have the gas to fuel interceptors, flew over Tokyo and dropped.
(Context: The Northwest Film Forum in Seattle has been hosting an Yasuhiro Ozu retrospective, screening 27 of Ozu's 33 surviving films. I've managed to see six of them so far, and.