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More Books and Bookshelf Musings

    Mussolini’s Italy:Life under the Fascist Dictatorship by by R. J. B. Bosworth  Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott Been busy writing a book review and a long and serious post, so here is something more lighthearted and tangible in the meantime. Having...

Heavy breathing on the line: Boyd and the hare

[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees] Sigh ? 1 ? ? Raises question ? ? 2 ? What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it? ? 3 ? Ask Colonel John Boyd, USAF (1927-1997)… ? 4 ? Namedrop John Boyd What do most respondants think? ? 5 ? ? 6 ? Uncritical...

Octavian Manea interviews MIT’s Roger D. Peterson

Another installment of Octavian Manea’s excellent COIN interview series at SWJ. This one focuses on social science and varieties of insurgency: Breaking Down “Hearts and Minds”: The Power of Individual Causal Mechanisms in an Insurgency  ….OM: In your...