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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Weak Currency: Weakened Prosperity
A great friend of mine recently admonished a competitor who exclaimed that the Dow Jones was rising! His response was incisive: what does it matter, the currency is shot! His thinking was grounded in sound fiscal, macroeconomic policy that is … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Money, Reagan
Tagged Confiscatory taxation, Currencies, Entitlements, Money, Weak Dollar
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Pakistani Intelligence Services, Osama bin Ladin & The Nemesis Of History
The recent release of the AfPak papers (summer 2010) reveals what many already knew: ISI (Pakistani Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence) is giving tactical and material support to the Taliban. First, some definitions: ISI is the CIA for Pakistan, the Taliban … Continue reading
AfPak Papers & American Statecraft
The central tenant of any counterinsurgency is the consolidation of domestic political leadership. What the Bush administration got right was his unwillingness to bend to the wishes of the Pentagon, State, Media, Congress or Wise men on the absolute need … Continue reading
Posted in Frontier, International Relations, Islam, Near East, Politics, Terrorism, Uncategorized
Tagged India, ISI, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Strategy, Swat Valley, Taliban, Waziristan
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East Africa: Agents Of Al Qaeda & The New Front
The recent bombing of Kampala has brought to light several key strategic insights regarding both the nature and drive of Islamic terrorists and the strategic alliance of American presence in East Africa; particularly regarding our relation to Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Politics, Terrorism, Uncategorized
Tagged Al Qaeda, CJTF-HOA, East Africa, Ethiopia, Islamic Terrorism, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda
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The New Wiseman: Informed Critics Of Afpak Strategy
Decades ago Washington insiders always spoke reverently about the need for any President to have a ‘wise man’ continuously informing and constraining the President’s policy options: Roosevelt had Hopkins, Truman had Acheson, Kennedy had Macmillian. Today’s President either arrives into … Continue reading
Gilded Age: Prominence & Patricide
Anyone familiar with the Hudson River Valley in New York State is familiar with the rise of tourism that accompanied the twenty-five year economic boom that we sustained since Reagan. All along the Hudson River are mansions from the Gilded … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Ethics, Identity Development, John Paul II, Money, Morality, Perils Of Specialization, Sociology, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexander Waugh, Averell Harriman, Deborah Davis, Geoffrey O'Brien, Gilded Age, Newport Rhode Island, Saratoga Springs, Tycoon, Vanderbuilt, Vienna, Wittgenstein
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Ralph Peters: Spygame
Known as an old ‘Russian Hand’; a euphemism detailing the acumen accrued by developing successful ‘cover’ as a mole behind the line of fire, Ralph Peters remains one of the finest intelligence experts the Army has produced in decades. He … Continue reading
Posted in Benny Avni, Perils Of Specialization, Terrorism
Tagged CIA, Ralph Peters, Spy, Terrorism
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France: Unintended Consequences Of A Bastard Ally
Few academics have been driven to excoriate the craven French as they lovingly embraced Marxism, the incubus of revolutionary fever that cradled the genocide in South East Asia. Even fewer have quarried how Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag’ was the text that finished … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, China, International Relations, Politics, Raymond Aron, Sociology
Tagged 1968, Andre Gilde, Andre Malraux, France, Julien Benda, Marxism, Mauriac, Maurice Ponty, Pol Pot, Raymond Aron, Revel, Richard Wolin, Solzhenitsyn
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