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What Abu Muqawama Is Reading This Weekend
I'll be reading LTG (ret.) Dubik's report on building security forces (.pdf). My mother, meanwhile -- who thinks you guys curse too much but once sent me off to war with the immortal line "Just don't embarass your family" -- sent along the quote of the week from old D. D. Eisenhower himself, who was speaking in reference to a certain red-baiting senator from his own party:
It is difficult indeed to maintain a reasoned and accurately informed understanding of our (defense) situation on the part of our citizenry when many prominent officials, possessing no standing or expertness as they themselves claim it, attempt to further their own ideas or interests by resorting to statements more distinguished by stridency than by accuracy.
Hello, Everyone: You have a
Hello, Everyone:
You have a great mother whose advice we can all live by . . . and it's possible that Mr. Eisenhower's mother would have liked it if we called her son Dwight David rather than Dwight W. Just maybe.
Our mothers should hang out
Our mothers should hang out sometime -- mine once responded to a gushing wound on my leg with "don't bleed on the couch." I was eight.
I heart Eisenhower.
I heart Eisenhower.
That's funny. That is the
That's funny. That is the exact same advice my mom gave me before prom. Still good advice for today. Unfortunately now every time I curse on this blog I'll worry about upsetting Mrs. Exum.
Ooph! Sorry. Fixed.
Ooph! Sorry. Fixed.In order to help distinguish
In order to help distinguish "accuracy" from "stridency" in today's post-Cold War world, what term should we use to replace the term "red-baiting?"
Nice quotes. Ike foreshadows
Nice quotes. Ike foreshadows Philip Tetlock's excellent book on expert political judgment. Turns out to be in short supply, especially where strident views abound.
Doesn't necessarily need to
Doesn't necessarily need to be limited to non-experts. Eric Hoffer said it excellently when he commented that "intellectuals cannot think at room temperature."
Unprecedented, massive events (or at least the perception of them) are exciting - and present opportunities for new wannabe intellectual or political prophets/movers and shakers. More of the same not so much.
WoW makes it into serious
WoW makes it into serious military analysis. Leeroy Jenkins! Via Tom Ricks...
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2009/06/4036672/
Vey good piece on Iraq advisor mission
Read this: Stephen Grey,
Read this:
Stephen Grey, 'Cracking on in Helmand' -- UK forces facing strategic defeat in Helmand.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2009/08/cracking-on-in-helmand/
Hey I think all mother are
Hey I think all mother are really like that in nature. We should all be thankful we have them in our lives.
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