George Orwell: Strategic Genius?
Cage match!! Revisiting your intellectual heroes is a bracing way to get psyched up for a new term. (We start off with our Senior Level Course today, hobnobbing with the likes of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu,...
View ArticleChina’s Doublethink on the Law of the Sea
Senior Colonel Zhou Bo set China-watchers atwitter last week when he informed a group including Admiral Samuel Locklear, big kahuna of the U.S. Pacific Command, that the PLA Navy has "sort of...
View ArticleOrwell’s Healthy Skepticism of Science
Oftentimes, when I have a few slack minutes around Naval Diplomat House, I flip open a random volume of George Orwell's collected short works to a random page, and read whatever essay, column, or...
View ArticleThe Orwellian Debate Over Isolationism
Amazing, isn't it, how much of political discourse comes down to hanging an unflattering label on your opponents? After all, if people assume your opponent is a nasty so-and-so of one type or another,...
View ArticleShould America ‘Spread the Theater’ in Asia?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a metaphor worth? A lot. If, that is, it's aptly chosen, if folks use it precisely, and if it's not so overused that it loses all meaning. Alas, big...
View ArticleBy: Matthew David Albritton
"War is Peace" seems like a manifestation of psycological warfare — one that seeks to subdue by Deception – which is what War really is in the first place. Interesting article, Mr. Holmes.
View ArticleBy: Leonard R.
@Prof. Holmes: "Where now," he asked rhetorically, "are the men who told us those things? Still on the job, drawing fat salaries. Instead of the unsinkable battleship we have the unsinkable Military...
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