Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.
If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.
Giving Talking C****s a Taste of Their Own Medicine
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Anthony Fauci May Not Be the Devil, but He’s Not a Good Guy.“Despite having all the world find out that Fauci was wrong about so many things, the man’s arrogance hasn’t diminished one bit. I don’t know that there’s any way to take his ego down a peg, but I would like to see him continue to be exposed as being the tool that he his.”
LAUGHING WOLF’S NUCLEAR WAR PRIMER CONTINUES WITH Nuclear 201: Scenarios. “If you’ve read your Clancy, you already know that a number of such war games take place so that people can get to know each other, and figure out how to respond to things. Rumor has it that such ‘games’ have not been done in a while, at least on a senior level. If that is true, I think it a huge mistake. One of my larger concerns for escalation involves Russian doctrine and the asinine concept of ‘escalate to de-escalate.’ For a number of reasons, I can see bumbling incompetence on both sides taking things a lot further than they should
Why Gorbachev Was One of the Greatest Failures in History CounterPunch
Ohio man who suffered 20,000 bee-stings expected to recover, family says The Guardian (Resilc)
The Summer Everyone Saw the Sharks Slate (Resilc)
Investigators, Citing Looting, Have Seized 27 Antiquities From the Met NYT
Book banning in U.S. schools has reached an all-time high: What this means, and how we got hereGrid
The Battle for ‘Cop City’ Rolling Stone
The Search for Scientific Proof for Premonitions The New Republic
Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford, How to be a Founder: How entrepreneurs can identify, fund and launch their best ideas. Do you have it in you to be a founder? If you are asking that question, this book is maybe the best place to start looking for some answers.
Thomas H. Davenport and Steven M. Miller, Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration. Actual examples!
There is also Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence, which I have not yet read.
Samuel Gregg, The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World is a useful corrective to some recent attempts to overrate the import of industrial policy, especially in an American context.
Celia Paul, Letters to Gwen John I found a moving set of (imaginary) letters from one living female painter to another first-rate deceased female painter, both having lived through some similar situations. Excellent color plates too.
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. A good look at the essential continuity in Chinese history between the Maoist period and the “capitalist” period. Of course the main thesis no longer seems so crazy as it might have ten years ago.
Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion
In “Between Us,” psychologist Batja Mesquita argues that emotion isn’t universal, but inherited from social groups.