Dive into the archives.
- 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 [...]
- The subscription walls keep coming down
As of today, The Atlantic Monthly website is free to all visitors. Now you can go back and read all those old articles by Bob Kaplan. They still charge for some of their archives which date back to November 1857.
Actually, this story broke yesterday on the NYT which took down its wall a few [...]
- Strategic communication
The latest Principles of War seminar series featured John Rendon of the Rendon Group who spoke on the topic of strategic communication. This is an issue dear to my heart as a former PR man with a technology bent familiar with the monolithic industrial-age government department system and its lack of timely communication capability.
Rendon hits [...]
- Pyramid of Capitalist System
Image randomly found on Wikipedia. It is a 1911 critique of capitalism advocating unionism. I think it reflects nicely how unionism is about “me” getting my gains, and not about the group/humanity at all.
- King of Spain v.s. King of Spin
Spanish King Juan Carlos tells Chavez to “shut up”.
Chavez repeatedly interrupted Spanish PM Jose Luis Zapatero at the Ibero-American summit in Chile last weekend, calling former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar a “fascist.” Zapatero, a socialist who defeated Aznar at the polls after the Madrid bombings, argued with Chavez openly that Aznar was [...]
- Moslem Anti-Kemalist Turks capture Sinkiang!
The Opposite End of China has a jolly good collection of headlines pulled from the New York Times archive between March 1933, when news of a Muslim uprising in western China reached New York, and January 1934, when an independent East Turkestan was established with it’s capital in Kashgar. This should take any great [...]
- Bring down this wall!
Jason Kottke takes a sample of content from behind the recently abandoned New York Times Select subscription wall. The archives go back over 150 years, and Kottke dredged up the following gems among others:
first mention of the World Wide Web
an early report of Lincoln’s assassination
report on Germans using mustard gas in WWI
confirmation of Einstein’s theory [...]
- Pavlov’s Gamer
For a few years now governments have jumped on the global video game bandwagon to spread their message. Nearly everyone is familiar with America’s Army — a highly advanced game owned by the US government and distributed for free. The game as been proven a great recruiting tool and helps familiarize potential recruits [...]
- A sign of defence?
I present the newly adopted Japanese Ministry of Defense logo. A call went out resulting in 767 submissions, of which the above — designed by MIURA Masato — was chosen. Can you feel the élan? The honour? The distinction? My god… from the Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere to a green dude hugging the Earth. This [...]
- Lost in Translation?
In the very public row over Russia’s refusal to extradite a suspect to Britain in the poisoning murder of Alexander Litvinenko, the headlines in the western press are focusing solely on Putin’s statement that Russia is not Britain’s colony:
Russia’s not your colony, says Putin – Times Online
Putin Attacks UK `Colonial Thinking’ in Murder Row [...]
