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Power Hungry: Confronting the Dangers of American Myopia
Jun 6, 2013 – This article is reposted from September 2009. With President Obama's appointment of Samantha Power as the next United States Ambassador to the UN yesterday, and attention now widely focused on... Read the rest
Terror in the Age of Genocide: A new problem from hell: Samantha Power Empowered
Jun 6, 2013 – This is a repost from April 2010. With President Obama's appointment of Samantha Power as the next United States Ambassador to the UN yesterday, and attention now widely focused on... Read the rest
How to Start a Revolution: All over the world, people are struggling against tyranny. Gene Sharp’s writings have helped millions achieve freedom
Mar 26, 2013 – "Dictators are never as strong as they tell you they are. People are never as weak as they think they are.” – Gene Sharp GENE SHARP (ARCHIVE): You know, this... Read the rest
Gene Sharp's 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action: Southeast Asian Languages
Mar 25, 2013 – Gene Sharp's 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action in several prominent Southeast Asian Languages, as translated by Google translate: English (Singaporian) Malay Thai Lao Indonesian Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese 198 Methods... Read the rest
Muscular Nonviolence: People Powered Insurgencies Stage a Stunning Resurgence
Oct 8, 2012 – On September 27, 2012, world renown nonviolent theorist Gene Sharp was awarded the 2012 Right Livelihood Award (aka, the Alternative Nobel) in recognition of his life-long commitment to nonviolence and... Read the rest
Small Wars Journal: Why Bringing Back the Draft Makes No Sense
Jul 20, 2012 – When retired Army General Stanley McChrystal commented that he believes it’s time to “consider a draft” at the Aspen Ideas festival, he sparked a conversation in the media on the... Read the rest
Narco News: Gene Sharp Responds to Mexican Citizens’ Petition Seeking His “Support for Our Revolutionary Movement”
Jul 19, 2012 – ‘The Credit for Successes Is Deserved by the Brave Participants in the Nonviolent Struggle, not Outsiders,” Writes the 84-Year-Old Scholar of Civil Resistance Strategy and Tactics. Narco News Publisher’s Note:... Read the rest
Bloomberg: A New, Improved Draft? No Thanks
Jul 11, 2012 – So Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and now Thomas Ricks, want to bring back the draft. Writing yesterday in the New York Times, Ricks proposes a mandatory 18 months of national service... Read the rest
NYT: Let’s Draft Our Kids
Jul 9, 2012 – IN late June, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the former commander of international forces in Afghanistan, called for reinstating the draft. “I think if a nation goes to war, every town,... Read the rest
AHRC: CAMBODIA: Respect ideals and concepts, not arbitrary leaders
Jul 1, 2012 – An article by Dr. Gaffar Peang-Meth published by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The West and the East historically have differed in their traditional perspectives on how best to order... Read the rest
CNN: Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare
Jun 25, 2012 – It's a dark January evening, and in an anonymous townhouse near Paddington station, a man is talking about how to stage a revolution. A young Iranian asks a question: "The... Read the rest
NPS Alum, Adm. William McRaven, Commander, USSOCOM, Visits Alma Mater
Jun 11, 2012 – NPS alumnus Adm. William McRaven, Commander, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), presented a Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture (SGL) and award, June 7, in King Auditorium. McRaven graduated... Read the rest
Foreign Policy: Special Report on Obama's Secret Wars
Apr 6, 2012 – War, as Clausewitz so memorably put it, is the continuation of politics by other means. Strikingly, the United States under its Nobel Peace Prize-winning president has been pursuing war itself... Read the rest
CCR Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
Apr 1, 2012 – George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis. Published by The Penguin Press, New York 762 pages, 2011. John Lewis Gaddis is important to students of the Cold... Read the rest
CCR Feature Article: City, State and More: Singapore’s Experiment in Contemporary Sovereignty
Apr 1, 2012 – Early this winter, I met with Singapore’s Peter Ho, who long served as head of Singapore’s civil service before retiring last year and who is one of the city-state’s most... Read the rest
Rethinking Security: On the War of Art
Mar 11, 2012 – Thomas Bruschino has an excellent piece in The New Criterion on war, literature, and elite attitudes towards conflict that deserves a read. Bruschino argues that war is portrayed cynically (even farcially),... Read the rest
Rethinking Security: Civilian Protection, Order, and Sovereignty
Mar 8, 2012 – Was Libya worth the effort? Opponents of the operation point to the country’s dismal state post-occupation, with continuing violence against civilians and political divisions. Proponents, in turn, largely minimize the... Read the rest
Rethinking Security: Policy and Strategy in Syria
Mar 5, 2012 – After having written an essay about policy and strategy and the difference between them, I’m paying a bit closer attention to the news cycle. While I was mostly pleased with... Read the rest
Rethinking Security: Guest Post: Leadership and Managment
Mar 5, 2012 – Rei Tang, an sociologically-inclined alumni of the Project on National Security Reform, tells Rethinking Security in a guest post that leadership and management are greatly... Read the rest
Infinity Journal: The Policy-Strategy Distinction: Clausewitz and The Chimera of Modern Strategic Thought
Mar 1, 2012 – Adam Elkus explains Clausewitz’s distinction between policy and strategy and argues for its signal importance in 21st century strategy. It’s not just semantics: knowledge and proper application of Clausewitz’s ideas... Read the rest
Infinity Journal: To Be Clausewitzian
Mar 1, 2012 – What does it mean ‘To Be Clausewitzian’? In this article, William F. Owen argues that one must be able to understand the value of Clausewitz’s observations and insights in On... Read the rest
Infinity Journal: Ends, Ways, Means: Clausewitz and Other Prophets
Mar 1, 2012 – Beatrice Heuser explains that it is just in the question of how ways and means should be related to (larger political) ends that Clausewitz decided not to furnish larger elaborations... Read the rest
Infinity Journal: Clausewitz as Sociologist
Mar 1, 2012 – Hugh Smith argues that Clausewitz’s approach to war is imbued at every level with a sociological perspective – from his understanding of the novice soldier going into battle to the... Read the rest
Infinity Journal: Clausewitz and the First World War
Mar 1, 2012 – Taking issue with writers who have blamed Clausewitz for the First World War, David Kaiser discusses his influence upon the planning for that war but adds that On War should... Read the rest
Infinity Journal: Clausewitz’s Center of Gravity Legacy
Mar 1, 2012 – In this article, Antulio J. Echevarria II argues that contemporary military doctrine has made the concept of center of gravity the prerequisite for operational art. But the art really lies... Read the rest
Infinity Journal: Clausewitz & Contemporary Conflict Special Edition -- An Introduction
Mar 1, 2012 – IJ Special Editions are a collection of peer-reviewed articles on a specific and unique subject in the realm of strategy. All Special Editions contain at least six articles and are... Read the rest
CNN GPS: 10 strategic issues with Obama's East Asia "pivot"
Feb 15, 2012 – The Obama Administration recently released a military strategic guidance document, which calls for a strategic “pivot” from the Middle East to East Asia. This bold move replaces President George W.... Read the rest
Bowling Green Daily News: Book review: ‘Power and Struggle’ a journey through the history of protests
Jan 15, 2012 – “The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, in large part, a reflection of the relative determination of the population to be free and their willingness and ability... Read the rest
Jive Talkin' 6.0: Plato’s Republic
Dec 1, 2011 – Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Jive translation by Dialectizer. * I. BOCoo' I: Of Weald, Justice, Moderashun, and deir Opposites SOCRATES - GLAUCON I WENT waaay down yesterday t'de Piraeus wid... Read the rest
Jive Talkin' 5.0: Plato’s Republic
Nov 1, 2011 – Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Jive translation by Ebonics. * I. BOOK I: Of Wealth, Justice, Moderation, an' they Opposites SOCRATES - GLAUCON I WENT down yesterday ta da Piraeus wiff... Read the rest
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