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In Harmonium
My friend Jim Cassidy just sent me a link to this presentation. Totally cool, and a fantastic way to show the power of music....
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13:07
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In Harmonium
For the past 4 days, I have been involved in a rather intense discussion over at the Small Wars Council on “What is education?”. One of the truly nice things about the discussion is that it immediately started off at ...
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22:07
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In Harmonium
The people in the past used to worship the idols which they used to make with their hands. Nowadays, people worship idols which are more intellectual – like democracy, liberalism, freedom, and so on. So these need to be destroyed ...
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21:33
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In Harmonium
John Stanton has posted a follow-up piece noting that the kidnapped social scientist, Issa Salomi, was living off base at the time of his abduction. According to John’s sources, this is not unique, and non-approved absences from base are, in ...
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17:19
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In Harmonium
The February, 2010 issue of Proceedings (USNI) has a wonderful article in it by MG Robert H. Scales entitled Too Busy to Learn. His basic thesis is that the American military, like its British counterparts during the 19th century, are ...
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18:52
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In Harmonium
John Stanton has just released a story at Cryptome that Issa T. Salome, a 60 year old HTT member, was kidnapped in Iraq by insurgents in January. John argues that this shows that the HTS is failing to find qualified ...
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22:42
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In Harmonium
It’s been a busy, but stimulating, week so far. I just got back from a presentations on Canada’s Evolving Mission in Afghanistan, and I’m preparing to head down to Quantico on Sunday for an interesting workshop next week. This week ...
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16:41
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In Harmonium
A week ago, I posted about the medium is the message vs. massage and used a couple of YouTube Videos from the Ottawa Back Choir as example. On Saturday, I was over for dinner at an old friend’s house and ...
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23:29
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In Harmonium
Margaret Atwood was recently honoured with a Chrystal Award at the World Economic Forum. The true esteem in which the Arts are held by the WEF, however, was clearly shown in how they handled the acceptance speaches by the various ...
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13:55
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In Harmonium
In a recently released article in prospect magazine, Edward Luttwak argues that the US should adopt a “Byzantine” strategy in dealing with the Taliban. His suggestion is simple
With Afghanistan, the west faces a simple strategic calculus: too costly to ...
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19:15
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In Harmonium
The Medium is the Massage (no, that isn’t a spelling error), is the name of a rather famous work produced by Marshall McLuhan and Quenten Fiore in 1967. It is, in many ways, a popularizing, as well as exemplar, version ...
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18:08
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In Harmonium
My friend and fellow SWC denizen Mark Safranski (aka Zenpundit) has an excellent post today entitled The post-COIN Era is Here. It is, IMHO, an excellent post on the (supposed) “COINdinista vs. Big War” debate; a “debate” that exists more ...
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17:27
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In Harmonium
A new briefing on how the Human Terrain System has surfaced in a story by John Stanton over at Cryptome (thanks for sending me the note, John!). As any of my students know, I dislike large powerpoint presentations and can ...
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15:22
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In Harmonium
Hugh Gusterson has a new piece over at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists entitled An American suicide bomber? It’s worth taking a look at for a number of reasons. I think that the central reason I found it interesting ...
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18:39
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In Harmonium
A very interesting discussion is starting to heat up over at the Small Wars Council over a paper written by Matt Lauder called Religion and Resistance: Examining the Role of Religion in Irregular Warfare (March 2009, DRDC Toronto TN 2009-049; ...
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13:34
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In Harmonium
CBC just carried a story that Sarah Palin will be joining Fox News as a commentator. I think that her comment that
It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news.
just about says ...
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21:25
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In Harmonium
NPR just carried a nice story about Dr. Paula Holmes-Eber on teaching culture at the Marine Corps University (hat tip to Kerry Fosher who sent out the link over MilAnthNet). I’ve had several chances to talk with Paula about her ...
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15:09
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In Harmonium
A friend and colleague over at the SWC, Beezebubalicious (what a handle!), just posted a link to a BBC story on the rise of human sacrifice in Uganda. What sparked some of my interest was that he said he found ...
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17:46
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In Harmonium
Back on the 12th, I put up a short post about December having been a trying month. What I didn’t mention then was that my wife Leslie and I were separating. We have spent the last 18 months trying to ...
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15:01
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In Harmonium
December has, for me at least, been a very trying month, and I just have not had the time or energy to blog despite many interesting happenings. I am hoping to return to blogging early in the new year once ...
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17:17
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In Harmonium
Max Forte has just produced another posting on the historical relation of Anthropology and Science entitled The Social Production of Science and Anthropology as Knowledge for Domination. Don’t let the title put you off, it is well worth reading and, ...
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17:23
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In Harmonium
I really don’t like rap at all, but one of my ex-students just sent me a link to an incredibly powerful rap video (hat tip to Lindsay Aranoff). The video speaks for itself. Do not watch it if you have ...
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In Harmonium
CBC just ran a report that noted that Gen. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the German Inspector General (roughly Chief of Staff) has asked to be “relieved of duties” after the Bild published still photographs of the September 4th airstrike against two tanker ...
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17:46
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In Harmonium
One of the things that is often forgotten these days is why people fight – not nations, not governments; people. All to often, especially during long conflicts with not actual “fighting” in a homeland, we forget and dismiss the conflicts ...
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17:03
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In Harmonium
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has just released a briefing on anti-terrorist cartoons in the Saudi Arabian press. As with all humour, it has a cutting edge to it. My favorites, and I’ll admit I have a warped ...
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17:58
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In Harmonium
I just stumbled across a wonderful blog called Work Matters run by Bob Sutton (hat tip to Mark Huselid and the HRDivNet mailing list). One of the terms Bob uses is “Jargon Monoxide” (originally created by Polly LaBarre). What a ...
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4:45
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In Harmonium
Well, I am writing this post from Oklahoma the night before I give a talk at Oklahoma University. I’ve been sweating this talk, trying to get the right words together to convey what I am seeing about how debates on ...
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16:07
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In Harmonium
I normally limit my posts here about music but, given the concert season, I thought I would post a few announcements about upcoming concerts. The first two are in Ottawa, while the second two are national broadcasts which can be ...
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17:24
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In Harmonium
The 2009 Army Capstone Concept will be released on Dec. 21, but until then, Brig. Gen. H.R. McMaster, director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center’s Concepts Development and Experimentation Directorate, invites the public to preview and provide feedback for the ...
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17:27
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In Harmonium
There is a “rule” known as the rule of the excluded third that derives from a particular form of knowledge construction: X either is or is not Y. This rule is often used in the construction of rhetorical positions that ...
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17:50
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In Harmonium
A couple of articles on the HASC assessment of the HTS have appeared. First, Max Forte has collected some of the key background documents relating to John Stantons’ original article. Second, John has a new article out at Counterpunch that ...
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23:43
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In Harmonium
In the US House Report 111-166 – NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010, there is a very interesting set of requirements regarding a direction to implement an independent assessment of the Human Terrain System (major hat tip to ...
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In Harmonium
Ken MacLeish has a very nuanced examination of the problems faced by a number of US vets and the structural use of the “Crazy Vet” stereotype over at Savage Minds. The post, Wounds of War and the Dilemmas of Stereotypes, ...
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23:43
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In Harmonium
I have been following a series of posts by my friend Max Forte over at Openanthropology on his “relationship” with the Open Anthropology Co-operative (OAC). I won’t go into the details, they are all available on Max’s site, but the ...
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In Harmonium
A quite brilliant, and very snarky, piece was written by Chris Rodda over at Daily Kos entitled the Top Ten Ways to Convince the Muslims we’re on a Crusade.
10. Have top U.S. military officers, Defense Department officials, and politicians ...
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15:46
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In Harmonium
With the release of an unclassified version of GEN McChrystal’s assessment (pdf; w/ hat tip to SWJ and the Washington Post) we can finally start to get a handle on the rationale behind the new (?) strategy for Afghanistan. I ...
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17:43
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In Harmonium
My friends Adam Elkus and Mark Safranski just released what is one of the more insightful, and scathing, critiques of US “Grand Strategy”. The short article is entitled Theory, Policy, and Strategy: A Conceptual Muddle (abstract | PDF) and focuses ...
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In Harmonium
I’ve been having an email discussion with my friend Drew about narratives for the past little while. One of the things that bothers me about the general topic, and by this I mean the military use and analysis of narratives, ...
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In Harmonium
A recent article in the New York Times by James Dao presents a pretty good synopsis of the “problem” of MilBlogging (with a hat tip to SWJ for the posting). For me, one of the key points is this
To ...
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17:42
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In Harmonium
This is a question that has been gnawing at me for some time now. Recently, two totally different events came together for me, and I wanted to take some time to reflect on what it might be.
Event 1
The ...
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