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Dr. Brendan Simms: Strategery
I’ve always loved how the experts, the specialized mandarins and policy wonks ridiculed Bush for his malapropisms. The overly specialized development of precise language does have its flaws, if only exposed in the caldron of the mundane. Where else is … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Arnold Toynbee, Central Asia, International Relations, Islam, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Pakistan, Politics
Tagged Arnold Toynbee, Bismark, Brendan Simms, Bush, COIN Doctrine, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, de Gaulle, Idolization of Ephemeral Technique, Influence of Sea Power Upon History, Lord Alfred Thayer Mahon, Offshore Balancing, Realism, Roosevelt, Russian Revolution, Security Studies, Southwest Asia, Strategery, Three Victories and A Defeat: Rise and Fall of the First British Empire
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Zara Steiner: Triumph Of The Dark: The International Order & The Rise Of Hitler
The vast quantity of historical material regarding the international order prior to the Second World War is staggering. It remains nearly impossible to add or detract from what has already been published. I say this with great reservation, for there … Continue reading
Posted in Adolf Hitler, International Relations, Politics
Tagged Bismark, Chamberlain, George Luckas, Germany, Hitler, Triumph of the Dark, World War I, World War II, Zara Steiner
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What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?
The North African Catholic Church throughout the last remaining centuries before the fall of Rome was the most fertile intellectual region before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. I don’t say that in a cavalier way, for the Church … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Antiquity, Arab Spring, Conservatism, Constitution, Ethics, Harry Jaffa, Identity Development, International Relations, Islam, Morality, Politics, Theology
Tagged Abstractions, Alexis de Tocqueville, Athens & Jerusalem, Bismark, Catholic Absolutism, Cicero, Code of Justinian, Edmund Burke, Enlightenment, Faith & Reason, Forum, Founding Fathers, France, Islam, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Justinian, Liberty, Locke, machiavelli, Mary Ann Glendon, Max Weber, Ratio, Reflections on Revolution in France, Reign of Terror, Roman Civil Law, Tertullian, Tower, Tribonian
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The Failure That Became Bismark: The Limits of Machiavelli
Arnold Toynbee once remarked that the problem with intellectuals was their intrinsic need to only illustrate, not fix the dominate ideas that ruled their profession. For decades I have been exposed to two false ideas that have dominated academia. Namely … Continue reading
Posted in Adolf Hitler, Alex Tocqueville, Conservatism, Ethics, Hitler, Identity Development, International Relations, Management, Politics
Tagged Bismark, Geopolitics, Hitler, Jonathan Steinberg, machiavelli, Servile State
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Pakistan: Incompetent & Duplicitous Ally
With the death of Osama bin Laden the U.S. can now begin to assess its partner in the ‘Long War’. Any brief cogent view of Pakistan will reveal a deeply troubling political arena fit for only the most competent statesman. … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Frontier, International Relations, Islam, Near East, Pakistan, Terrorism
Tagged Afghanistan, Afpak, Bismark, Central Asia, Pakistan, Petraeus, policy, Statecraft, theatre, Warcraft
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