November 7, 2014
Chaos, Schlieffen, and the best laid plans of the planners As the second James Bond flick, From Russia with Love (1963),...
March 23, 2014
Legitimacy loves the art of persuasion In their conclaves in various enclaves (âthink tanksâ and spas), military strategists...
November 11, 2013
How our humanity (or our future) is distressingly contingent on context âTo betray philosophy is the gentle treason /...
June 17, 2013
Great men and women debunked, but passing and accidental heroes are here to stay There are individuals and there are the...
March 5, 2013
Between identity and difference, the impulse for identity has proven more destructive Two principles rule in human affairs:...
October 4, 2012
How human history is invented, written, encountered and, in the end, irresistible For hundreds of thousands of years of...
June 7, 2012
Why the State as organizing framework remains stable, while the people it serves may be (made) vulnerable The media buzzwords,...
February 7, 2012
Parting volleys on humankindâs arenas of contention Cooperation is local, competition is pandemic. It has always been...
October 19, 2011
And why the first refines, or needs, the second Magnanimity heals the rift; ruthlessness seeks to erase the opponent. Both...
June 27, 2011
