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- The American Military Class
TDL comments on my previous post about Kaplan’s latest article and asks:
Should we be cultivating the notion of a military class in the U.S.? I do know that the majority of the founders were extremely opposed to that notion. To the extent that it took almost 40 years before veterans of the Revolution received [...]
- The Great Spirit wants his cut
The CBC reports that the First Nations of Manitoba want compensation for every cellphone signal that passes through their airspace:
Ovide Mercredi of the Grand Rapids First Nations says “When it comes to using airspace, it’s like using our water and simply because there’s no precedent doesn’t mean that it’s not the right thing to do.” [...]
- Kaplan Preview
Robert Dreher at Beliefnet somehow got his paws on not-yet-published Kaplan essay in the forthcoming issue of The American Interest:
Last night I was reading a Robert D. Kaplan essay from the forthcoming issue of The American Interest, an advance copy of which I received yesterday. Kaplan talks about the warrior class in American life, and [...]
- Software Piracy Distribution
From the Economist:
Firms constantly moan about software piracy and no wonder. Last year it accounted for 35% of the worldwide market and cost the industry $39.6 billion according to the Business Software Alliance, a trade body. America and China lead the world in terms of total losses from piracy at $7.2 billion and $5.4 billion [...]
- Net news
The Internet has been in a lot of headlines the past few weeks. Here is a roundup of net-related news I found interesting:
The Past
Preserving digital information for posterity is a serious problem. Getty Images has poured a lot of cash into researching ways to allow our great-great grandchildren to access the old, worn JPEGs from [...]
- Roundup
Lots of interesting news stories—too many to post on, so in brief:
Chavez refused to renew the license of a popular opposition-aligned television network and faced protests of thousands. His warning on national television: “to continue calling for disobedience, inciting assassination … I’m going to warn them before the nation… I recommend they [...]
- Morality: Left and Right
What influences your moral reasoning? What factors do you consider in evaluating something as right or wrong?
In the current issue of Science, Jonathan Haidt has an article titled “The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology” regarding research on what influences human moral judgment. The conclusion of surveys was that people who described themselves as [...]
- Sketch of the future
Well, that’s one less book on the pile. I finished John Robb’s Brave New War today. I really liked this book, it was fast-paced, concise, full of examples and most importantly rooted in realism.
The book touches on all the stars: old theorists (Sun Tzu, Liddell-Hart); new theorists (Lind, Barnett, Hammes); journos (Friedman, Rashid, Hersh); even [...]
- Currently Reading
I usually have a bunch of half-read books lying around the house. One or two will be top priority and the rest are usually for light reading. Here is the stack I am going through now (note that this is not counting the stuff I should read):
Phil Gordon’s Little Green Book — Phil GordonTravel Photography [...]
- “Show them you care”
Regular readers know that this week I have returned from my current residence in East Asia to my family home in the United States. This post is designed to be a commentary on the current state of affairs of American society, and I apologize in advance if this comes across as another rant.
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