Small Wars Journal accepted advertising from the National Association of Scholars presenting Academic Questions as an upcoming publication. Published as an academic journal by Springer I was both intrigued and worried. As an academic I sort through the normal morass…
Category: Book/Article Reviews
Books or articles of interest and reviews of them. If you have a book that you think may be of interest please let us know and we or one of our contributors will review the book. We reserve the right to rip to shreds any book that makes us feel that way. Or, just not do it.
The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science Strategy and War
The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War forward by Thomas Barnett and edited by Mark Safranski It is almost a formalized tradition of the Greek philosophers for the students of notable thinkers to gather together the lectures and scribe…
New to the Blogroll and long over due “Information Dissemination”
Long over due this excellently written blog is added for the substantive analysis and original content. I keep sending links out to professional sailors and navy types and I realized they weren’t on my blogroll and that was remedied tonight. …
Review and commentary: Blog Wars by David D. Perlmutter
The changes of media and communication theory inherent in the adoption of new technologies is not without some risk. Whether considering the technologically disenfranchised or the possible empowered individual technology has it’s impacts. Perlmutter quickly lays out a case…
On criticism of “Violence: A micro-sociological theory by Randall Collins”
Abstract Randall Collins in “Violence” makes the tragic mistake of relying heavily on S.L.A. Marshall and the many scholars of Marshall. The interviewing technique of S.L.A. Marshall and the evidence he collected was not without criticism or challenge. The soldiers…