Review: Grand Strategies — Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

Charles Hill Beyond 5 Stars–Can Frustrate, But Righteously Broad, June 9, 2011 I am sympathetic to those who are critical of the author, as I myself was frustrated at many points and also I confess feeling very ignorant about many of the literary works that were mentioned. However, and despite a rotten index and the …

DoD Inflation Fraud Costs Taxpayers Billions More

UPDATED to Add The Hill 06/06/11. A new Straus Military Reform Project paper that I have just finished explains how the Pentagon has tailored measures of inflation for itself that generate added billions of dollars — each year — and additional (hidden) “real growth” for its budget.  As just one example of the consequences, during the span …

Genghis Khan to Communism to Public Capitalism

JOURNAL: The Economic Juggernaut of Genghis Kahn Global Guerrillas Some fun thinking for Wednesday… Here are some of the economic reforms that turned the horde of Genghis Kahn into a steamroller than flattened most of the world’s kingdoms/empires.*  He: Delayed gratification.  He banned the sacking of the enemy’s camp/city until all of the fleeing soldiers, …