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Institutionalized: China and Superpower Status | Slouching Towards Columbia
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Strategy, politics, and history from the peanut gallery. Institutionalized: China and Superpower Status. June 6, 2013. To American leadership and preferences. Zakaria quotes David Shambaugh (who I was lucky enough to study under as a student), who describes Chinese difficulties this way:. 8220;What do you mean, we. Zakaria insists, though, that if China wants to be a superpower, and wants to be treated like a superpower, it needs to start doing. To defer to the interests of other powers:. And that factua...
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Bad WWII History: Neutrality Edition | Slouching Towards Columbia
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Strategy, politics, and history from the peanut gallery. Bad WWII History: Neutrality Edition. May 4, 2012. Tom Parker at Amnesty International, in his criticism of John Brennan’s recent speech on the U.S. drone campaigns, offers up a strange argument. Wars are fought between states in defined theaters of conflict. Brennan drew a comparison with World War II, but World War II was fought on the territories occupied by the parties to the conflict and not just anywhere that was considered expedient. Viewing...
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Judis and Longing for Left Interventionism | Slouching Towards Columbia
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Strategy, politics, and history from the peanut gallery. Judis and Longing for Left Interventionism. June 24, 2013. First off, since when does being a leftist require a belief in war on the merits humanitarian intervention or “worthy geopolitical ends? Many of the liberals and supporters of these sorts of intervention at the time. Regardless, on to the present dilemmas:. But then Judis, at the end, subtly seems to reverse some prior positions:. From → Uncategorized. Larr; On Reappraising the Civil War.
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On Reappraising the Civil War | Slouching Towards Columbia
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Strategy, politics, and history from the peanut gallery. On Reappraising the Civil War. June 20, 2013. The Atlantic recently put out an essay on the latest generation of Civil War history. This and other scenes of unromantic slaughter aren’t likely to get much notice during the Gettysburg sesquicentennial, the high water mark of Civil War remembrance. Instead, we’ll hear a lot about Joshua Chamberlain’s heroism and Lincoln’s hallowing of the Union dead. To say otherwise is simply to dismiss the concept o...
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On local revisionsism | Slouching Towards Columbia
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Strategy, politics, and history from the peanut gallery. March 30, 2013. Dan Drezner has an interesting post. Asking why we do not see more revisionist behavior from Russia and China:. To be sure, China and Russia have , on occasion, engaged in some revisionist efforts to change the status quo. See. And cooperation at the U.N. Security Council…. Spitballing now, I think there are three possible explanations. Why should Moscow or Beijing spend their hard-earned cash on marginally useful client states?
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Publications | Slouching Towards Columbia
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Strategy, politics, and history from the peanut gallery. In addition to writing at other blogs, here are pieces I’ve written for other sites:. Research Monographs and Reports. 8220;The Tactical and Strategic Uses of Small Arms by Terrorists,” (with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross) Foundation for Defense of Democracies. October 4, 2012. 8220;Clearing WMDs Means 75K Troops and Massive Air Strikes,”. United States Naval Institute News and Analysis. September 27, 2012. United States Naval Institute News and Analysis.
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Napalm and the Arms Creation Myth | Slouching Towards Columbia
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Strategy, politics, and history from the peanut gallery. Napalm and the Arms Creation Myth. April 15, 2013. I found the opening (by the interviewer, not the author) to this interview with the author of a new and promising looking book on the history of napalm. Napalm is one of those American inventions that you wish weren’t, sort of like Agent Orange, killer drones, or nuclear weapons. Sure, their invention might have had to happen eventually, but why should the U.S. have to shoulder credit. Even leaving...
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Strategy, politics, and history from the peanut gallery. February 11, 2015. In the midst of discussion of the influential new report circulating arguing for the provision of U.S. lethal aid to Ukraine in its conflict against Russia and Russian-backed separatists in the east, John Mearsheimer on Sunday. Argued that U.S. aid was insufficient to deter or defeat Russian aims, a dangerous provocation on the part of the U.S., and antithetical to what he saw as the true solution to the conflict:. And preserve t...
