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Category Archives: Military
Autumn Gold: Secrecy, Time, and the Recovery of Truth
On the surface the new feature documentary Autumn Gold tells the story of veterans exposed to chemical and biological weapons testing during the Cold War, and of the journalist who carried their accounts into public view. Beneath that story sits … Continue reading
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Carl von Clausewitz: An Intellectual Biography
Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) holds a singular place in the history of political thought. Memory fixes him as a military theorist, yet his significance reaches well past the study of war. He belongs to the small company of thinkers who … Continue reading
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Tom Clancy: Novelist of the National-Security State
Tom Clancy (1947-2013) was an interpreter of military institutions, a media entrepreneur, and an architect of the modern techno-thriller. Nobody of his generation did more to turn technical questions of military systems, intelligence operations, naval warfare, and national security into … Continue reading
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Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West and What Can Be Done About It
William Lind writes: Martin van Creveld’s latest book, Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West and What Can Be Done About It, is so important that it re-defines the military reform agenda. Previously, military reform has focused on the … Continue reading
Martin van Creveld, Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West—and What Can Be Done about It
Martin Van Creveld writes: In the kingdom(s) of the West, something is rotten. Collectively, the countries of NATO are responsible for almost two thirds of global military spending. In terms of military technology, particularly electronics, communications and logistics, they have … Continue reading
WP: Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently, shoot less accurately than men
Women in combat is a terrible idea. WP: “Women in a new Marine Corps unit created to assess how female service members perform in combat were injured twice as often as men, less accurate with infantry weapons and not as … Continue reading
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The Coup Is Coming II
A few months ago, I wrote that the coup is coming. Here are comments to Steve Sailer: * It is rapidly becoming clearer that the Constitutional system of checks and balances has broken down, leaving the President free to do … Continue reading
Military Man Apologizes For Telling The Truth
CBC.ca: Sexual harassment is still an issue in the Canadian Forces because people are “biologically wired in a certain way,” Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson said Tuesday, drawing outrage from opposition politicians and on social media. After … Continue reading