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In addition, Matt, I'd note that I have followed, admired, and learned from your Substack posts for a while now. Much appreciation from here. Today, I'm chagrined to say, learning about USIA's precursor, the IIA, is new to me. Plus I don't find much from a Google search about it. Meanwhile, tho very slowed-down, I hope to keep writing about noopolitics. Our initial efforts to contrast realpolitik and noopolitik have never gained traction; I'm sensing a geopolitics vs. noopolitics comparison may work better. The fight for Ukraine halps substantiate this.

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Matt: It's been years since our last contact, but we have tried to make similar points, as in David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla, Whose Story Wins: Rise of the Noosphere, Noopolitik, and Information-Age Statecraft, RAND Corporation, PE-A237-1, July 2020.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA237-1.html

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