A bevy of links on the subject. John Robb: Open-Source Counterinsurgency in Pakistan and P. + Open...
Chris Dierkes
Chris Dierkes (aka CJ Smith). 29 years old, happily married, adroit purveyor and voracious student of all kinds of information, theories, methods of inquiry, and forms of practice. Studying to be a priest in the Anglican Church in Canada. Main interests: military theory, diplomacy, foreign affairs, medieval history, religion & politics (esp. Islam and Christianity), and political grand bargains of all shapes and sizes.
In response to Scott’s excellent post, I would say that all this shows is yet again that...
From commenter Ken (comment #6 in this thread): If we just continue to pretend that every detainee...
Rod Dreher points us towards this Giles Fraser post in Church Times about Philip Blond, intellectual guru...
“I think if you let journalists become your grand strategists, you are gonna go straight to hell.”...
In honor of the Easter weekend I suppose, the Sunday Magazine lead article in the NyTimes this...
Sorry Mr. President this just isn’t right: The heart of this financial crisis is that too many...
Señor Payne a few posts down shrewdly argues that political hyper-partisanship is a outgrowth of laziness. He...
The strangest (and perhaps sickest it could be argued) thing we Christians say is that this day...
“But for the record, I don’t think white people have to answer for Glenn Beck. It was...
Noah Millman while discussing the Where The Wild Things Are Trailer clarifies a point I was trying...
It must be anti-Bloggingheads day on TLOG. William B. wrote this post criticizing Bob Wright’s piece in...
[Chris] The View from Your Window today at Sullivan’s digs is a photo my lovely wife took...
infandous: ““Unspeakable, not to be spoken of; nefarious,” (archaic). As in: “[MP George Galloway] is an “infandous...
Will Wilkinson reprints the response of John Cochrane to the Brad DeLong-Luigi Zingales debate at the Economist. ...
Kyle over at Vogue Republic has a thought-provoking two parter set (Part I and Part II) of...
Clive Crook writing in The Financial Times: Political capacity is the real key, and here is where...
Christian Brose writing at the Shadow Gov’t on the ForeignPolicy blogroll: Is negotiating akin to appeasement? No,...
From an interview by The Daily Beast with David Plotz on his new book Good Book (which...
ED’s piece yesterday calling for a neo-distributist/localist economic order is well worth the time. As coincidence (or...
