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Yesterday, my morning started with an exchange with Kosovo’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Petrit Selimi regarding potential naming conventions of their future armed forces. I suggested to Mr. Selimi that perhaps in a traditional sense of civil-military relations it was inappropriate to have NATO come up with a name. @Petrit @milot yet who's military is it? NATO or […]
February 16, 2013
How Big Would DoD Budget be Under Sequestration? Historically Big, It Turns Out..
August 3, 2012
From PBS Newshour: John J. Mearsheimer, a political science professor at the University of Chicago, and Dov S. Zakheim, a former Pentagon official who is now a senior advisor to the Center for Naval Analyses, sit down with PBS’ Judy Woodruff. They discuss “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb,” a recent Foreign Affairs article by Kenneth […]
August 1, 2012
GOOD Infographic: Worldwide Arms Sales DATA VISUALIZATION, INFOGRAPHICS The world arms trade is a multi-billion dollar industry with a strong economic impact on its major exporters. This infographic in collaboration with GOOD, shows the biggest international arms suppliers and buyers, and the United States’s recent dramatic jump in market share. http://columnfivemedia.com/work-items/good-infographic-worldwide-arms-sales/
July 30, 2012
Good media platform published this infographic that portrays U.S. spending on defense and development aide in comparison to other countries. Data is from 2010 and before the recent publication of the new Defense Strategic Guidance and new budget priorities. Development assistance spending and military spending appear to promote two contradictory sets of values: one that builds and one that […]
July 20, 2012
I found this video when looking for information on dynamic network data visualization. Gives you a sense of what the Cold War, deterrence, and mutually assured destruction was all about. From Youtube–Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and […]
April 3, 2012
MIT Seminar XXI is coming to an end for this academic year. The last weekend event is this month. Here is the list of topics and assigned reading for the theme: U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY. U.S. Grand Strategy: A Debate Barry Posen, “A Grand Strategy of Restraint” Robert Lieber, “Can the US Retain Primacy?” Robert Art, […]
September 9, 2011
Seminar XXI held its’ introductory and alumni banquet on Tuesday night at the National Press Club in DC. I definitely felt like the junior member. I ended up at a table with all alumni, each one was a current or retired general or flag officer, senior executive service member, or c-suite member. Anne-Marie Slaughter, the […]
August 26, 2011
New York Times August 26, 2011 Pg. 1 U.S. Widens Role In Mexican Fight By Mark Mazzetti and Ginger Thompson WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has expanded its role in Mexico’s fight against organized crime by allowing the Mexican police to stage cross-border drug raids from inside the United States, according to senior […]
June 28, 2011
Mr Gates’s tenure as defence secretary has seen many of the Rumsfeld-era wounds healed, thanks in no small part to Mr Gates himself. But as he prepares to leave office on Thursday, that rapprochement is being tested over the skies of Libya, raising new questions over whether Mr Gates’s tenure set Nato on a new, firmer path […]
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