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Two pieces crossed the desk this week that, on the surface, have nothing to do with each other. One was about drones and defense budgets. The other was about why the United States keeps losing the peace after it wins the war. Put them side by side and they're arguing the same point from two …
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There are songs that define a generation, and then there are songs that somehow escape the generation that produced them. More than fifty years after its release, Riders on the Storm by The Doors continues to find new audiences. Part of its appeal lies in its haunting simplicity: rain falls in the background, thunder rolls across the …
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Part of this week went to rereading Stephen Robinson's The Blind Strategist. It is a useful book, though maybe not for the reasons Robinson intends. At its core, the book is an attack on John Boyd, maneuver warfare, and a generation of military thinkers who leaned hard on German operational history. Robinson's argument, stated plainly, is …
Before the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805, Horatio Nelson sent a signal to his fleet that has outlived almost everything else about that day: “No Captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.” It reads like a grant of tactical freedom. It was something closer to the …
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