Dive into the archives.
- Kaplan on Malthus
The latest Kaplan is out, and our favorite journalist and patron saint is in fine form! With a comment titled “The Return of Thomas Malthus,” the MAN himself talks about the rise in global food prices and a renewed focus on the apostle of demographic catastrophe.
In the 1990s, a number of writers, including me, [...]
- Sign us up for cheap, compact subs too!
Kotare (aka “the strategist”) discusses a potential conventional submarine fleet for New Zealand using the new “entry-level” compact sub models coming out of Europe. This might be good news for Canada, which is losing millions on its sad submarine fleet. Only one of the four used diesel powered submarines we purchased from the UK is [...]
- German NSC Sparks Controversy
In 1871, the many German states, previously divided and often at odds with each other, were united under the leadership of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck. Europe had long consisted of a strong France in the west, a divided series of weak states in central Europe and a strong Russia to the East. A united [...]
- History vs. Future
The esteemed Zenpundit and I have begun a discussion on comparative methodologies for historians and futurists that looks promising. See Mark’s original post and my comment that sparked his detailed reply which I then analyzed.
Please join the conversation over at Zenpundit. There are many CA community members that have a better grasp on this stuff [...]
- Already adapting to the post-oil future
In the novel World Made By Hand, authour James Howard Kunstler (interviewed here by Stephen Colbert) argues that American daily life will change drastically when the oil runs out. He sees no future for the city infrastructure that has grown up around the popularization of cars (ie. suburbs), and is pessimistic about the industrial economic [...]
- Can we survive China’s rush to emulate the American way of life?
Readers would not often catch Lord Curzon perusing the pages of Mother Jones, a liberal-progressive commentary magazine. However, a recent article subtitled, “Can the world survive China’s headlong rush to emulate the American way of life?” caught my eye like few other articles have so far in 2008. That question is, I believe, [...]
- Equal Alliance, Unequal Roles
Following on the Kissinger post of last week, Kaplan has an Op-Ed in the New York Times on the Nato alliance and the unequal nature of the alliance—but unlike Kissinger, he defends it.
Predictions of NATO’s decline hold it to an impossible cold war standard. Then, a direct mortal threat to Central Europe in the form [...]
- Kissinger Speaks
... on Iraq and the Iraq War, NATO and the EU, Pakistan and Iran, radical Islam and pacifism, George Bush and Obama and McCain, objective reality and moral considerations, and plenty more.
The interview is short but the content is real—highly recommended reading (and the articles comes from Der Spiegel of all places). To quote [...]
- Present ARMS! The military and Powerpoint
Having a great interest in FutureWarTM I had to download the latest Rethinking Future Elements of National and International Power presentation by Joe Purser. Mr Purser is from the Deep Futures cell at US Joint Forces Command. He works on all the FutureWarTM stuff from a “joint” perspective, which has resulted in the doctrinal document [...]
- PKK in Kansas Update
As as a follow up on my previous post on rumors that the PKK is moving to Nagorno-Karabagh, Jamestown has a new article on the same subject that is well worth reading.
Reviving a Forgotten Threat: The PKK in Nagorno-Karabakh
By Anar Valiyev
The decades-long war between the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish army has [...]
