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2026 4

  1. The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark
  2. China and the Future of Science
  3. On Bombing Iran
  4. 35 Theses on the WASPs

2025 8

  1. Book Notes: The Technological Republic (2025)
  2. Bullets and Ballots: The Legacy of Charlie Kirk
  3. Did Taiwan “Lose Trump?”
  4. Book Notes: Stoner (1965)
  5. The Eight Tribes of Trump and China
  6. The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility
  7. Observations From India
  8. Science Proceeds One Question at a Time

2024 11

  1. Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass
  2. Dionysus Against the Daoists
  3. Washington DC is Not a Popularity Contest
  4. The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite
  5. Five Fundamentals of Chinese Grand Strategy
  6. Uber is a Poor Replacement for Utopia
  7. Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones)
  8. More on Xi Jinping’s Industrial Drive + London Meet Up
  9. Xi Jinping’s Plan to Save China Through Science
  10. American Nightmares: Wang Huning and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Dark Visions of the Future
  11. Christmas Day as Judgement Day

2023 9

  1. Wang Huning and the Eternal Return to 1975
  2. Gaza and the Extremist’s Gambit
  3. Soviets, Cybernetics, and China: A Reading Program
  4. Lessons from the 19th Century
  5. Watch Xi Jinping Slowly Strangle the Dengist Economic Paradigm
  6. Maoist Echoes
  7. The Lights Wink Out in Asia
  8. Every Book I Read in 2022
  9. On China’s Enemies Within

2022 17

  1. We Can Only Kick Taiwan Down the Road For So Long
  2. Introducing the Center for Strategic Translation
  3. Has Technological Progress Stalled?
  4. The World That Twitter Never Made
  5. The Fall of History as a Major–and as a Part of the Humanities
  6. A Guide Map for Reading the East Asian Canon
  7. Of Sanctions and Strategic Bombers
  8. Generational Churn and the CPC
  9. Why Chinese Culture Has Not Conquered Us All
  10. Learning From Our Defeat: the Madrassas and the Modern
  11. What is the end-game in Ukraine?
  12. Ukraine, China, and the Shadow of the ’90s
  13. Pausing at the Precipice
  14. Thoughts On Shitpost Diplomacy
  15. Thoughts on “Post Liberalism” (I)
  16. The Rise and Fall of Civilizations: A Reader Course
  17. Every Book I Read in 2021

2021 48

  1. Needed: Deep State Traffic Cops
  2. On the Party and the Princelings
  3. Sino-American Competition and the Search For Historical Analogies
  4. Learning From Our Defeat: The Skill of the Vulcans
  5. New York City Meet Up and Other October Community Announcements
  6. Yale and the Education of Governing Elites
  7. Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order
  8. Learning From Our Defeat: The Assumptions of Donald Rumsfeld
  9. Community Announcements: August 2021
  10. As the Generations Churn: The Strategic Consequences of Cultural Change in Communist Russia… and China?
  11. We Must Learn From Our Defeat
  12. “How Xi Jinping’s New Era Should Have Ended U.S. Debate” With Peter Mattis
  13. Fighting Like Taliban
  14. Announcements: Washington DC Meet Up, First Zoom “Ask Me Anything”
  15. Myths of the Over-Managed
  16. Scrap the Myth of Panic
  17. F.A. Hayek’s “Intellectuals and Socialism” with Trevor Burrus
  18. In Favor of Bad Takes
  19. Engagement’s Second-Order Catastrophes
  20. Culture Wars are Long Wars
  21. Fear the First Strike
  22. Historians, Slaves of Fashion?
  23. Welcome to the New Scholar’s Stage
  24. Podcast Episode 1: Fleet Tactics with Lt. Col. Nate Lauterbach
  25. How I Taught The Iliad to Chinese Teenagers
  26. The Magic in Modernity
  27. Further Notes on the New Right
  28. The Navy’s Knives Must Come Out
  29. Notes From All Over – April/May 2021
  30. The Problem of the New Right
  31. For God and Progress: Notes On Training the Medical Mind
  32. Welcome to the Decade of Concern
  33. Notes From All Over – March 2021
  34. A Few More Notes on the Dearth of Great Works
  35. On Laws and Gods
  36. Against the Kennan Sweepstakes
  37. All Measures Short of a Cross Straits Invasion
  38. Longfellow and the Decline of American Poetry
  39. The Framers and the Framed: Notes On the Slate Star Codex Controversy
  40. Why Writers (and Think Tankers) Feud So Viciously
  41. Understanding Taiwanese Nationalism: A Historical Primer in Bullet Points
  42. Where Have All the Great Works Gone?
  43. The 2021 Scholar’s Stage Readers Poll!
  44. Bootstrapping Marx With the Peasant Masses
  45. The First Failure of the Liberal Rules Based Order
  46. Assessing the Trump China Strategy: The Key Documents
  47. Everything I Got Wrong in 2020
  48. Every Book I Read in 2020

2020 46

  1. A Theory of Authoritarian Personality Cults
  2. Spengler and the Search for a Science of Human Culture
  3. China’s Attack on Australia is About America
  4. Leninist Politics: A Reading Course
  5. Why I am Bearish on Substack
  6. Do Not Choose Susan Rice
  7. Plagues of Hate
  8. On Life in the Shadow of the Boomers
  9. Rethink What You Know About Xi’s Belt and Road
  10. We Were Builders Once, and Strong
  11. Counting Speeches to Understand Xi Jinping
  12. On Sparks Before the Prairie Fire
  13. Yes, We Are in an Ideological Competition With China
  14. Why I Fear For Taiwan
  15. On Diplomats-in-Chief
  16. When “Engagement” Backfired: The Story Behind Pro-Communist Private Enterprise
  17. How To Win An Election
  18. This is Not The American Cultural Revolution
  19. The World That China Wants (III): Taking Chinese Communism Seriously
  20. Solidarity, Weapon of Modernity
  21. Why Banning All Party Members is Stupid
  22. The World That Twitter Made
  23. Xi Jinping and the Laws of History
  24. Questions on the Future of the U.S. Marine Corps
  25. On Cultures That Build
  26. Against Patrick Deneen (II)
  27. On Days of Disorder
  28. The World That China Wants (II): The Communist Case In Brief
  29. Against Patrick Deneen (I)
  30. Japan’s Achilles Heel?
  31. Book Review: The Great State
  32. It Is Time For a Libertarian Case Against China
  33. Talking Very Online Conservatism with Titus Techera
  34. The World That China Wants (Part I): Why Intentions Matter
  35. Bullet Reviews: A Bunch of Books on Epidemic and Disaster Response
  36. Conservatism’s Generational Civil War
  37. Porn Restriction for Realists
  38. The Education China Hands Need, But Most Do Not Get
  39. The New England Colonies: A History Decided by Culture, or by Ecology?
  40. Losing Taiwan Means Losing Japan
  41. A Note on the Romney Vote
  42. Washington DC Meet-Up
  43. Public Intellectuals Have Short Shelf Lives—But Why?
  44. Political and Practical Implications of the Wuhan Virus
  45. Every Book I Read in 2019
  46. So Begins a New Age of Instagram Diplomacy

2019 51

  1. The Problem Isn’t the ‘Merit,’ It’s the ‘Ocracy’
  2. Do Not Trust Journalists (A Mormon Example)
  3. The Aussies Who Doubt Us
  4. Fissures in the Facade
  5. Freud Did Not Discover the Unconscious
  6. Review: Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping
  7. Blogs I Read, Researchers I Follow, and Podcasts I Listen To
  8. A Note on “Historical Nihilism”
  9. Historians, Fear Not the Psychologists
  10. Shakespeare : Just What Kind of Writer Was He?
  11. On the Three Basic Types of Literature
  12. Travels and Meet Ups: Nov-Dec 2019
  13. A Non-Western Canon: What Would a List of Humanity’s 100 Greatest Writers Look Like?
  14. China’s Vision of Victory?
  15. On Adding Phrases to the Language
  16. I Choose Hannah Arendt
  17. Mr. Science, Meet Mr. Stability
  18. The Title IX-ifcation of American Childhood
  19. Why Taiwanese Leaders Put Political Symbolism Above Military Power
  20. Public Opinion in Authoritarian States
  21. At What Point is Defending Japan No Longer Worth It?
  22. Do Not Trust Your Arguments
  23. A Brief Model of Extremist Politics
  24. Ko Wen-je Has No Staying Power
  25. Chinese Are Partisan Too
  26. On the Angst of American Journalists
  27. A Study Guide for Human Society, Part I
  28. Two Case Studies in Communist Insecurity
  29. Book Notes—Strategy: A History
  30. Give No Heed to the Walking Dead
  31. Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of “Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s”
  32. If You Were to Write a History of 21st Century America, What Would It Look Like?
  33. It Is Not Like That Black Mirror Episode
  34. Xi Jinping Explains His Political Philosophy
  35. How to Save the (Institutional) Humanities
  36. Are We Ready For What Comes Next?
  37. Against Human Sexual Selection
  38. The Utterly Dysfunctional Belt and Road
  39. On the Future of this Blog
  40. Questing for Transcendence
  41. The Inner Life of Chinese Teenagers
  42. Who is to Blame For Taiwan’s Military Woes?
  43. On The Tolkienic Hero
  44. What Do Cambodians Think About China?
  45. Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian is Modern China?
  46. Secure Communications Strategies for China and Elsewhere
  47. Reason is for Stabbing
  48. On the American Football Game
  49. Of Words and Weapons
  50. Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit
  51. Every Book I Read in 2018

2018 35

  1. Where is the Communism in the Chinese Communist Party?
  2. Making Sense of Chinese History: A Reading List
  3. Taking Cross Cultural Psychology Seriously
  4. Bootlicking in Beijing
  5. Khashoggi’s Death is the Crisis We Have Been Waiting For
  6. Teaching the Humanities as Terribly as Possible
  7. Pining for Democracy: A Few Readings
  8. Why Is the Fight for Free Speech Led by the Psychologists?
  9. The Marvelous Machiavellian Mind Reader
  10. Observations from Washington
  11. Notes From All Over (9/10/18): Constitutional Cycles, Cognitive Gadgets, and the Uses of Repression
  12. Travels and Other Announcements
  13. Taiwan Can Win a War With China
  14. Psychology Makes the Strategist
  15. A Small Note on the Terror of Uncertainty
  16. Things That Will Get You Thrown in a Chinese Political Education Camp
  17. So Why Did They Publish Them? – A Few Notes on the Latest Batch of Fail-to-Replicates
  18. Tradition is Smarter Than You Are
  19. Taiwan Will Be Defended by the Bullet, or Not at All
  20. Taiwan’s Past Matters Less Than Taiwan’s Present
  21. Notes From All Over 04/08/2018 (WEIRD Catholics, Chinese Intimidation Tactics, and Human Genetics)
  22. Why Didn’t China Give Birth to Democracy?
  23. Being vs. Doing in Ancient Chinese Thought–A Note
  24. Manning Up in Ancient China
  25. What Cyber-War Will Look Like
  26. The Scholar’s Stage: Who Are You and What do You Like to Read?
  27. Moral Hazards and China
  28. Book Notes — Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction
  29. Losing Games We Don’t Know Are Being Played
  30. My Grand Theory of Jordan Peterson
  31. You Do Not Have the People
  32. A Short Defense of the Musical Hamilton
  33. Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of “Eye for an Eye”
  34. Modern Universities Are An Exercise in Insanity
  35. Every Book I Read in 2017

2017 12

  1. Do Mil-Mil Exchanges With the Chinese Do More Harm than Good?
  2. Notes From All Over: Communists, Partisans, and P-Values
  3. The Decline of American Democracy (in one Infographic!)
  4. Conservative Fairy Tales & Liberal Allegories ?
  5. Chinese Influence and Intelligence Activities: A Few Notes
  6. Leveraging Indian Power The Right Way
  7. Learning From Old China
  8. Everything is Worse in China
  9. A Parable Concerning Tolerance
  10. Travels and Meet Ups
  11. The Cambodian Tilt Towards China
  12. Every Book I Read in 2016

2016 29

  1. The Election We All Saw Coming
  2. Beware the Alcibiades Point
  3. Men of Honor, Men of Interest
  4. History is Written by the Losers
  5. China: The Unknowable Kingdom
  6. Winning the Popular Vote While Losing Grip on Reality
  7. The Time Has Come to Give The Lie
  8. Everybody Wants a Thucydides Trap
  9. Why I Read Thucydides
  10. Are You Prepared For November 9th?
  11. Announcing: The Thucydides Roundtable
  12. China Was Never an Empire of the Mind
  13. Costly Signaling in the South China Sea
  14. Arms and Influence… and China
  15. China Does Not Want Your Rules Based Order
  16. The Real Reason Chinese is “So Damn Hard”
  17. The Old G-2
  18. In Hong Kong, Your Clothes Matter
  19. Sunzi on ISIS
  20. Chiang Kai Shek’s Gamble–Reviewing Shanghai and Nanjing 1937
  21. The Asian Productivity Race
  22. Hacking Democracy
  23. Saudi Arabia’s Dangerous Game
  24. Trump is Not the New Hitler—He is the New Andrew Jackson.
  25. Why Do We Know So Little About China’s WWII?
  26. How to Be a History Blogger
  27. Rise of the Rookies: Trudeau’s Grand Experiment
  28. Taiwan’s Problem is Not the Communist Party of China
  29. America Will Always Fail At Regional Expertise

2015 50

  1. Every Book I Read in 2015
  2. East Asian Military History – A Few Historiographical Notes
  3. The Future of the Fertile Crescent: Thoughts from Nibras Kazimi
  4. The Fight Against ISIS: A Few (Unorthodox) Points For Discussion
  5. Vox Will Never Understand Islam… Or Any Religion, Really
  6. Darwin and War in Ancient China, Sengoku Japan, and Early Modern Europe
  7. Editorial vs. Coffee House Blogging
  8. Why Did Asian America Abandon the GOP?
  9. Requiem for the Strategy Sphere
  10. Wanted: A Stupid-Proof Strategy For America
  11. A Few More Thoughts on the Terrors of Pre-Modern Battle
  12. Pre-Modern Battlefields Were Absolutely Terrifying
  13. Should America Give a Whit About the South China Sea?
  14. Why do Humans Cooperate?
  15. Awareness vs. Action: Two Modes of Protest in American History
  16. Why Was There No “May Fourth Movement” in India?
  17. Shakespeare in American Politics
  18. Honor, Dignity, and Victimhood: A Tour Through Three Centuries of American Political Culture
  19. Notes From All Over (3/09/15): Chinese Media, Ancient War, and Strategic Theory
  20. Ends and Means
  21. To Taiwan
  22. Which Wars Are Most Important?
  23. Chinese Journalism and Chinese Soft Power
  24. The OODA Loop, Ancient China Style
  25. Iran: The Debate We Should Be Having
  26. Is a Science of Cultural Change Possible?
  27. What History Should An American Know?
  28. The CNRP Won’t Save the South China Sea
  29. There Is No “Right Side” of History
  30. Fiction and the Strategist
  31. “Its Not The Economy, Stupid!” What Wealth Can’t Explain About Chinese Politics
  32. Which is Worse: Game of Thrones or the Culture that Watches It?
  33. The Extraordinary Thing About WWII Is What Happened After
  34. Newsflash: The Chinese Play Chess Too
  35. Signal Like Its 1711: James Addison on Partisan Signaling, 18th Century Style
  36. Chinese Strategic Tradition: A Research Program (II)
  37. The Chinese Strategic Tradition: A Research Program (I)
  38. When Modern War Met an Antique Art
  39. Introducing: Asabiyah
  40. Health Isn’t Wealth, pt. II
  41. The Road to Beijing Runs Through Tokyo
  42. Traveling
  43. Health ≠ Wealth
  44. A Civilization Is at Stake Here
  45. Why the Mongols Conquered the World, According to the Mongols
  46. American Policy Makers Do Not Read Books
  47. Meritocracy
  48. Notes From All Over (8/1/14): Tech Giants, Asian Media, and Japanese History
  49. The Radical Sunzi
  50. Every Book I Read in 2014

2014 37

  1. Can China Liberalize in Time? Keep Your Eyes on Shandong
  2. ISIS, the Mongols, and “The Return of Ancient Challenges”
  3. Macro-History: A Few More Books
  4. Bargaining with the Dragon: Some Straight Talk on Hong Kong
  5. Notes From all Over (14/09/14): China’s Economy, Samurai, and Adam Tooze’s Take on Europe
  6. What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), pt. 2
  7. What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), pt. 1
  8. Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of “Red Capitalism”
  9. It is Time to Talk Honestly About the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
  10. There Will Be No Cambodian “Spring”
  11. Quantum Libraries
  12. The Next 40 Years in Twelve Hundred Words
  13. A Few Thoughts on Environmental History
  14. Notes From All Over (22/06/14): Rise of the West, Island Disputes, & Too Much Stuff About China
  15. Chinese Cookery: Notes on the History of Chinese Stir Fry
  16. Hard Truths and Hidden Gems at Shangri-La
  17. The Cross Section Ilusion
  18. Infiltrating the Khmer Rouge – The Nate Thayer Story
  19. A Few Comments on China, Vietnam and the HYSY981 Crisis
  20. What Books Do We Need to Rewrite All of Human History?
  21. Understanding Dysfunctional Democracies
  22. Meditations on Maoism — Ye Fu’s “Hard Road Home”
  23. 5 Thinkers I Wish Had Their Own Blogs
  24. “The Russian Strategy for Empire”
  25. Notes From All Over (15/03/2014): Poles, Plutocrats, and Population Genetics
  26. Smallpox on the Steppe
  27. How Many Generations Until Immigrants Think Like the Rest of Us?
  28. The Economics of Sex
  29. Shame and War
  30. Visions of the Coming Future — John Robb’s New Project
  31. The United States Doesn’t Know What to Do With the East China Sea
  32. Notes From All Over (3/02/2014): Ghosts, Empire, and Tribal Honor
  33. Which Chinese Ethnic Minorities are Important? Ask the Spring Festival Gala!
  34. How to Be Buddy-Buddy With an Guerilla General
  35. The Limits of Expertise
  36. America Makes You Violent
  37. I’m From Princeton, and I’m Here to Help!

2013 71

  1. Every Book I Read in 2013
  2. Things Those Chinese Think (+What We Think Back)
  3. The First Thankgiving: Climax of America’s Greatest Science Fiction Flick
  4. Notes From All Over (26/11/13): Germs, Governments. and Gettysburg
  5. Another Look at ‘The Rise of the West’ – But With Better Numbers
  6. The Nomadic Survival Strategy: Salzman’s 20 Observations
  7. Introducing: The Mongol Project
  8. A Few Thoughts on Ender’s Game
  9. Escaping the Echo Chamber of Modernity
  10. Not Everyone Likes Sunzi
  11. Akbar Ahmed on Terrorism and the Collapse of the Tribal Order
  12. Radical Islamic Terrorism in Context, pt II
  13. Radical Islamic Terrorism in Context, pt I
  14. “Redefining the basic nature of the American polity”
  15. Trying to Make Sense of India’s Sexual Violence, State by State
  16. The Limits of Weibo
  17. Independence and Rights
  18. A Few Stray Thoughts on World History and its Books
  19. It Is Time To “Take The Internet Back”
  20. On Credibility
  21. If You Have a Country, Then Brits Fought There
  22. Notes From All Over (August 2013) Wars, Graphs, and Biospheres
  23. Notes From Beijing: About that Chinese Social Contract
  24. Over the Great Firewall
  25. The World, As Seen Through Contested Wikipedia Pages
  26. Despots Near and Despots Far
  27. Emmanuel Todd’s Theory of Modernity
  28. The Rise of the West: Asking the Right Questions
  29. Iran – Not as Persian as You Think
  30. Jefferson and Adams are Gone
  31. Keeping Up With China – A Few Resources
  32. Economies of Scale Killed the American Dream
  33. Far Right and Far Left Coming Together – With Infographics!
  34. What Are You Reading?
  35. America 3.0
  36. Finally, Some Sanity on Events in Turkey
  37. 2010s: The Decade Asian America Goes Mainstream
  38. Geography and Chinese History – The Fractured Land Hypothesis
  39. Do The Great Books Have a Place in the 21st Century?
  40. Quick Hits: Life Before the Plow
  41. America Torn Apart: Panel Discussion With Charles Murray and Robert Putnam
  42. Asian Great Power Politics: Spring 2013
  43. Notes From All Over (14/5/2013) – Historical Linguistics, Guanxi, and Scary Government Data Bases
  44. What Happens When Wall Street Goes Up Against the CIA?
  45. On Survivalism
  46. Striking It Rich in Ancient Times: An Example From the Song Dynasty
  47. Global Temperature, 0-2000 AD
  48. Mourning For Boston
  49. Notes From All Over (14/4/2013) – Digital Feudalism, Macrohistory, and Energy
  50. “Winning Hearts and Minds” Is Dead
  51. Far Right and Far Left – Two Peas in a Pod?
  52. Whence Springs a Strategic Canon?
  53. Testing Your Knowledge of Indian Politics
  54. March Round-Up
  55. West and East and How We Think
  56. C. Wright Mills Explains the Decline of the American Congress
  57. Troubles With the Chinese Military Tradition
  58. Grand Strategy Absent Grand Ends
  59. Notes From All Over (15/03/13): Rome, Banks, and China
  60. Separation of Powers is Dead
  61. Energy Use and Economic Growth: Some Basic Facts
  62. Changing a Political System That Is Rigged Against You
  63. What Senator Paul Accomplished
  64. The Power of Ideas in History: An Example From Antiquity
  65. Is China’s Economy a Great Bubble?
  66. The Rule of Law and The Ruling Class in American History
  67. A Flawed Comparison: Inequality, Ancient and Modern
  68. Institutions, Instruments, and the Innovator’s Dilemma
  69. Strategy Is Who You Are
  70. Ominous Parallels: What Antebellum America Can Teach Us About Our Modern Political Regime
  71. Re-Opening the Shop

2011 2

  1. Closing Down the Shop
  2. Collapse of America’s National Security, or Collapse of the American Family?

2010 132

  1. The Most Popular Posts of 2010
  2. Playing Around With Google Ngram
  3. Notes From All Over (13/12/2010) and Assorted Miscellany
  4. Out For a Bit
  5. Graphic of the Day: “Reducing” Foreign Aid
  6. Historical Smack-down
  7. A Dark Cloud Over Europe
  8. A Question for the Conservative
  9. Crony Capitalism and Stagnation, Connecting the Dots
  10. Straight Talk on the TSA, Paragon of the Creeping Security State
  11. How to Take Over A Mexican Border Town
  12. Foreigners Grade Obama’s India Trip
  13. So Begins the Narco Refugees
  14. Jai Hind
  15. Perspective
  16. Notes From All Over 2/11/2010
  17. Rare Earth Geopolitics – A Quick Note
  18. For History Nerds
  19. Three Headlines and A Moral
  20. Foxes, Hedgehogs, and Forecasting
  21. News Flash: A Republican Majority Will Not Bring Spending Under Control
  22. Thoughts From Geopolicraticus
  23. The Political Theater of the CCP
  24. James Madison on War and Liberty
  25. What is Really Happening in Gilgit-Balochistan
  26. Notes From All Over (6/10/2010)
  27. The Chinese Strategic Tradition: A Syllabus
  28. If You Only Read One Essay Today…
  29. One More Website To Waste Your Days Away….
  30. Intelligent Look at America’s Income Inequality
  31. Citizen Vigilantism: The Next Step in Mexico’s Drug War?
  32. Connecting the Dots: Social Mobility and Family Structure
  33. I Thought I Had Something Insightful to Say About the Yen Intervention….
  34. The Onion Strikes Again
  35. Turkey As Seen on September 12th
  36. New (Better) Definition of Grand Strategy
  37. 10 Rules for Dealing With Cops: A Video Every Citizen Should Watch
  38. Adam Smith’s Invisible Foot
  39. Addendum to “Dreaming Grand Strategy”
  40. Chinese Troops Move Into Pakistan, Western Media Hardly Bats An Eye
  41. Manifest Destiny – A Case Study in National Purpose?
  42. Don’t Trust a WEIRD Man’s Reasoning
  43. Notes From All Over 21/08/2010
  44. Security Update: Venezuela
  45. Azar Gat on Narrative Building
  46. Afghansistan 2050: Futures That Will Not Be
  47. Quarrels With Comparative Advantage
  48. Notes on the Dynamics of Human Civilization: The Growth Revolution, Part I
  49. Working on Something Big. ‘Til Then, Some Mobbery
  50. Pick Your Metaphor With Care
  51. Notes From All Over 29/07/2010
  52. Mr. Codevilla’s Ruling Class: Some Reservations
  53. If You Ever Doubted
  54. Peak Oil and EROI: Understanding a Concept
  55. Imagining India Without Two Centuries of British Rule
  56. Who Is Laughing Now?
  57. Does The Executive Branch Suffer From a Learning Disability?
  58. Futuristics, Geopolitics, and National Resilience
  59. Confucius and I
  60. The Many Sided Turk
  61. Notes From All Over (05/7/2010).
  62. An Independence Day Message
  63. The Turn of the Tide? Our Media Finally Wakes Up and Hates on Pakistan
  64. Reading Assignment
  65. Addendum onTyranny
  66. For Those Tickled by Geopolitics (III)
  67. Pakistan and China: BFFs
  68. America Quibbles as Mexico Crumbles
  69. If This Does Not Make You Think the French are Weird
  70. Tyranny, Towards a Definition
  71. My Anti-Library Erodes, Bit by Bit
  72. North Korea: Views From the Inside
  73. How to Win Allies and Influence Statesmen
  74. Notes From All Over 13/06/2010
  75. All I Will Ever Say About the BP Oil Spill…
  76. The Shangri-La Dialogue
  77. In Transit, and a Video To Make Up For It
  78. We Laugh Because It is True (But Perhaps We Should Be Crying Too)
  79. A Few Thoughts on the Senate
  80. Tales of America’s Broken Diplomacy
  81. Very Cool
  82. Notes From All Over 26/05/2010
  83. Lucky Find in the Library
  84. We are Losing This War, and Nobody Gives a Wit
  85. Dreaming Grand Strategy
  86. A Poll For the Readership
  87. Notes From All Over 10/05/2010
  88. Ours, A Tyranny
  89. Keep Your Eyes on Korea
  90. Cases in Plutarchy? The U.S. Senate by Graduating Institution
  91. For Those Tickled by Geopolitics (II)
  92. Pressures to Publish Increase Scientists Bias
  93. Busy, But Not Dead (And Fun Political Taxonomy Stuff)
  94. New Site Policy
  95. I’m With Crazy
  96. How Democratization Works
  97. Quarreling with the Ecologists
  98. War and Peace and War
  99. Notes From All Over (13/04/09)
  100. Musings – Cognitive Consquences of Historical Metaphors
  101. Collateral Murder? The Footage Wikileaks Left Out
  102. Breaking Down START
  103. The Roots of the Naxal Insurgency
  104. Iraqi Election Results Are In
  105. Made by Washington: Ignorance and Hackery
  106. Did a North Korean Sub Sink the ROKS Cheonan?
  107. Health Care: America’s Sickness or Symptom?
  108. Notes From All Over
  109. Progressives, Conservatives, and the Politics of Reconciliation
  110. Those Tickled by Geopolitics…
  111. Oops
  112. Through the Agency of Demons: A Small Sketch of the Modern Mind’s Making
  113. Notes From All Over 27/02/2010 (Civilizational Collapse Edition)
  114. This Weekend I Will Be Busy…
  115. Corruption’s Blurry Edges
  116. Are the United States and China Headed For Cold War?
  117. Musings – How We Ought To Think About History
  118. Another Round of Punditry is Right Around the Corner…
  119. The Death of a Nation
  120. Question Time
  121. An Interesting Thought
  122. Words ’bout Yemen Worth Reading
  123. COIN, Meet Democracy (And Your Doom)
  124. Brilliant
  125. Notes From All Over 23/01/2010
  126. Haiti
  127. Strategic Blinders
  128. Forming a Region-Centric State Department –– From the Bottom Up
  129. America’s Greatest Challenge — and Danger
  130. When Speculation Becomes Reality
  131. Military History Carnival
  132. Copenhagen: a Failure of American Statecraft

2009 34

  1. Busy
  2. The Funniest Thing I Have Seen In a Long Time
  3. Video of the Day 27/11/09 – Massacre in Mindanao
  4. Our Esteemed Ally, the Executioner of Sorcerers.
  5. Video of the Day 23/11/09 — East vs. West: the Myths that Mystify
  6. The Best Headline of the Month Goes to….
  7. The Blog Role Just Got a Bit Bigger
  8. Naxalism: A Short Introduction to India’s Scariest Security Challenge
  9. The Best Headline of the Month Award Goes to…
  10. Ocean Acidification: The Real Carbon Problem
  11. An Update on the Poland Missile Shield Kerfuffle
  12. Intelligent Folk Dissect The CCP So I Don’t Have To.
  13. Brazil Rising
  14. Notes From All Over 9/10/2009
  15. Video of the Day 1/10/2009 — Obama’s War
  16. The Missile Shield – Why We Planned It, Why We Scrapped It, and Why It Matters
  17. History Matters: Obama’s Diplomatic Ineptitude
  18. Moving
  19. Notes From All Over 8/09/2009
  20. Strategic Forum: Yemen 2011
  21. Change of the Guard
  22. Video of the Day 30/08/2009 –What Stops Population Growth?
  23. The Mystery That is India
  24. Notes From All Over 23/08/09
  25. Af/Pak in Tatters: The Debate Is On
  26. Why Selena Shilad Has it Exactly Wrong on Climate Change and National Security
  27. Under Construction
  28. Meet Our New Ambassadors (and Foreign Policy Priorities)
  29. Notes From All Over 23/05/2009
  30. Stealth Wars and the American Republic– A Perspective
  31. Can Modern America Wage a Counterinsurgency Campaign?
  32. Notes From All Over 1/19/09
  33. Climate Change in Perspective
  34. Additions to the Blog Roll

2008 6

  1. Notes From All Over: 17/10/2008
  2. The Modern DoD: Guns, Money, and… Public Diplomacy?
  3. Notes From All Over: 9/24
  4. 32 Nuclear Plants on the Wall, 32 Nuclear Plants…
  5. The Future East Asian Security (i.e. The Future of U.S.-Japanese Relations)
  6. Poem of Past and Present