I have no patience with anarcho-left bullshit. That's as true of the kind of thing David Graeber was pushing in most of his writings as anything else. Someday I am going to write my essay on the perniciousness of James Scott on academia over the...
bureaucracy
At the Diplomat I revisit questions of institutional design and military effectiveness: Organizational infighting over naval aviation is common, and can have serious negative effects. The Luftwaffe, optimized for tactical.
Channeling my inner Tom Friedman this morning. I'm convinced that a candidate willing to espouse the platform I set forth would immediately win a bipartisan mandate for reform... On rare.
For somewhat obscure reasons the Challenger disaster became, in the USA, what (much more understandably) the assassination of JFK had been for a previous generation: a shocking event whose symbolic resonance was such that, as the cliche has it, everyone can remember where they were...
My latest at WPR is about airpower, "savage war," and inter-service conflict: Nevertheless, assessments of the utility of airpower in counterinsurgency efforts have always been bound up in debates over.
This is simply wrong: One of the principal aspects that make the "weak presidency" claim so laughable is that the post-World-War II presidency has done virtually nothing but expand in.
Ezra makes a critical point:Paperwork gets lost. HR Departments are busy. People are between jobs for a few months, or they pressed submit but not "save." So they go uninsured for a few months. Or maybe more. Maybe they don't notice for a year. That's...
I look forward for weeks to the moment each year when, in National Security Policy, I can hold forth on the stupidity of having both a Department of Homeland Security.