Strategy as Performance Art

I have seen this excerpt from Ralph Peters’ old Bill O’Reilly interview posted throughout the Internet today…

In the latest MERIP, there is a ridiculous and baseless critique of academic and policy-facing terrorism studies:

In the vacuum left by all of the attempts to distinguish jihadis from other Muslims, the work of explaining and interpreting jihadism is…

Phil Schrodt has an typically acerbic take on the new DoD efforts at human-machine teaming.

It was with a mix of deja vu, amusement and resignation that I saw the latest Dept. of Defense (DoD) pronouncements — try here and here — about their…

So, in my last entry, I expressed my opinion about why I thought quantitative social science god (despite a lot of the harsh things I said, intellectual honesty obliges to me to note that Schrodt is the…