Posting some of the strategy lols I’ve made for friends over the last two years at the Cheezburger Network. This is one is a somewhat creepier version of Basil Liddell-Hart. Imagine good ol’ BLH as a PUA.
TODAY IN TURKEY
National Protest: Istanbul: 01-02JUNE2013
ACAB Worldwide
WAKE UP — SIGNAL BOOST
Crazy photos.
He pointed to a United States Defense Department directive issued in November that banned use of lethal force by fully autonomous weapons for up to 10 years, unless specifically authorized by senior officials, and that identified possible technology failure …..Although no countries currently use such weapons, the technology is available and human rights groups are campaigning to pre-empt deployment.
Anticipatory governance is great. But this one requires a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer.
Bitcoin is currently being used as a publishing system due to a design feature/flaw. That flaw threatens the viability of Bitcoin as a currency. How so? Some folks have expoited that feature/flaw to publish Wikileaks cables and pedophile porn links…
John Robb managed to snag an interview with the bitcoin team. Well worth reading.
Under the Shadow of Napoleon is an excellent book, but its main argument is wrong. I will explain that paradox in this review, beginning with the book’s shortcomings. Michael Bonura (PhD Florida State), an active duty US Army officer who has taught at West Point, maintains in chapter 1, “A French Way of Warfare,” that, in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, the French created a combat model closely emulated by the US Army. The French archetype became so entrenched as to represent, Bonura argues, a Kuhnian paradigm[1] that persisted until the German blitzkrieg of 1940. But talk of paradigms and paradigm shifts presupposes an entire way of thinking about a subject, including the sorts of questions to be researched and the very language to be used in describing that subject. Kuhn’s ideas apply best to scientific knowledge, where dramatic changes are both more possible and more perceptible. When it comes to such human activities as war, the notion of a paradigm shift is seldom germane, especially at the macro level.
From a review of a new book on French military influence on US army practice.
Would benefit from consideration of tdaxp’s comments on loose exemplars.
Interesting Military Review paper on adversarial thinking.
Want to see Boyd’s personal library? Lynn Rees has created a nifty mindmap of Boyd’s bibliography with Freeplane.
Want to own a few? Lynn Wheeler made a nifty program that google-searches for author + title once you click on the title field.
An intriguing new book on counterguerrilla ops in a neglected theater in World War II.
Neighborhood walls have become the latest battleground in the city’s struggle over how to commemorate its violent past.
One of the first books I read on terrorism had an extensive discussion of paramilitary murals in Northern Ireland.
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