YH’s thoughts in an airport wait area

Posted on 4/8/2008 by Younghusband

It has been a whirlwind week for me, hence the lack of posting. I am currently in an airport waiting room on my way to see Lady Younghusband. I will be spending a few weeks in Japan while I wait for my master’s thesis defense to be arranged. Yes, after 6 long months, I finally submitted my opus on Japanese strategic culture and energy security policy. Well, not so much an opus. In fact, more like a red-headed stepchild I would like to drown. Anyways, I am stress free except for all the stress related to career search, working in Japan, travelling back to Canada where I have no place to live, etc.

Recently I have been thinking a lot about the reconciliation of disparate political priorities in representative democracies. I have been reflecting on my years as a grad student and found that the more I study history, politics and philosophy the more politically “moderate” I become. Nothing is worse than dogmatism (natch!). I plan on doing a proper post on that as soon as I do some more personal reconciliation. Check out this intriguing article on “Anglo-Saxon attitudes”:http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10926321

Here is what I have been reading online for the past couple of days:

* “NZ’s FTA with China”:http://kotare.typepad.com/thestrategist/2008/04/a-landmark-agre.html and geopolitical alignment in Oceania
* Shlok is “thinking about a war podcast”:http://shloky.com/?p=989
* Jun Okumura “weighs in”:http://son-of-gadfly-on-the-wall.blogspot.com/2008/04/when-economist-speaks.html on the “JapaIn issue”:http://cominganarchy.com/2008/03/21/offending-nationalist-sensibilities/ of _The Economist_
* “Heil Dönitz!”:http://youtube.com/watch?v=qcQpj2XUsc8

About Younghusband

Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) was a British explorer, army officer, military-political officer, and foreign correspondent born in India who led expeditions into Manchuria, Kashgar, and Tibet. He three times tried and failed to scale Mt. Everest and journeyed from China to India, crossing the Gobi desert and the Mustagh Pass (alt. c.19,000 ft/5,791 m) of the Karakoram mountain range in modern day Pakistan. Convinced of Russian designs on British interests in India, Younghusband proactively engaged in the nineteenth century spying and conflict over Central Asia between the British and the Russians known as the Great Game. "Younghusband" is a Canadian who has spent a number of years bouncing back and forth between his home country and Japan. Fluent in Japanese and English with experience in numerous other languages from Spanish to Georgian, Younghusband has travelled throughout Asia. He graduated with an MA from the War Studies Department at the Royal Military College of Canada, where he focussed on the Japanese oil industry and energy security issues. He has recently returned to Canada from Japan, and is working in the technology sector.
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2 Responses to YH’s thoughts in an airport wait area

  1. strategist says:
    4/8/2008 at 6:25 pm

    Thanks for the link, YH. And congratulations on your thesis. Great work.

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