Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
"People can contradict an opinion solely because of the tone in which it was expressed."
- Nietzsche
"Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.”
- Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1. Exercise in the Caucasus returns Green Berets to resistance roots
2. The U.S. Won Afghanistan Before Losing It
3. Japan ups the ante against China, plans to deploy nukes near Taiwan next year
4. The Porcupine in No Man’s Sea: Arming Taiwan for Sea Denial
5. Buoyed by rising nationalism, China’s keyboard warriors take aim at Olympic athletes
6. How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda
7. ISIS remains a persistent 'low-level' threat in Iraq and Syria, US report says
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