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Introducing the Founding Member level
You can now show your support... and get a rare challenge coin
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October 2024

Don't Use East-West to Describe the Soviet Union and Russia vis-a-vis others
When lazy framing is easy but misleading and even injurious
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The strategic plan that never was
A proposal with measurable, not just aspirational, objectives
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September 2024

Losing sight of the forest because of a few trees
Some details in the "Clarifications Needed" post distracted some readers, so let me clarify the missed-information about the 2014/2015 bills to remake…
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Clarifications are needed
When well-meaning academic reporting becomes misinformation
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You are a discerning reader...
...and I thank you
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Two examples of disinformation, one of great comms, plus a still relevant observation
Things found rummaging through old presentations last week (looking for something I never did find)
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Functional discrepancy: syncing geographies of bureaucracies
A longstanding, often overlooked discrepancy exists between the State Department and the Defense Department in how they divide the world into regions.
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Tactical Solutions Will Not Fix a Strategic Defect
A colleague recently referred me to the following passage in the recent Commission on the National Defense Strategy report and asked, “What would you…
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July 2024

Happy Insurgency Day!
aka Happy Fourth of July!
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May 2024

Follow up to the survey where I asked questions and (some of) you answered
Plus a bit of introduction for new readers of this substack
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Main Street on a Flattop aka Operation Flattop
Shipping a "typical American town" around the world in a carrier to counter disinformation and fix misinformation about the US and democratic life
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