Marcus Aurelius: Do Americans Want a Military Coup?

U.S. Military is not interested and won’t do it — but the increased desire for an honest strong man is interesting. Are Americans losing faith in democracy? A lot of Americans are viscerally angry at the political system. They hate Washington, they don’t trust politicians, and they are increasingly willing to vote for populist outsiders—like …

DefDog: John Hamre Gets It Wrong — and Politico Lets Him Slide — “Electronic Pearl Harbor” is Original to Winn Schwartau

The ‘electronic Pearl Harbor’ Eighteen years ago I was the first to use that term publicly. It was the wrong analogy then. Not anymore. The phrase became a touchstone in the long national argument over cybersecurity, for better or worse. I was not the author of the phrase. That honor goes to a dear friend of …

The Future: Recent “Core” Work by Robert Steele UPDATED

استخدام جوجل ترجمة للقراءة باللغة العربية 使用谷歌翻译在中国阅读 Использование Google Translate для чтения на русском языке Google Türkçe Oku Çevir kullanın SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Future Big Ideas: Applied Collective Intelligence, Information Peacekeeping, Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) — creating a prosperous world at peace by achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at  10% – 25% of existing …

Review (Guest): The Global Village Myth (Grand Strategy)

The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power By Patrick Porter Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015 Reviewed by Steven Metz, Director of Research at the US Army War College The Global Village Myth is short, tightly-argued body blow to contemporary American security policy. In it Patrick Porter takes on an important …