Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
“It must be remembered that some groups will ignore any constitutional provision in their aim to establish themselves as new dictators. Therefore, a permanent role will exist for the population to apply political defiance and noncooperation against would-be dictators and to preserve democratic structures, rights, and procedures.”
- Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy
“All succeeding political philosophy is a footnote and a commentary on Plato.”
- Michael Curtis, The Great Political Theories, Volume 1
“Given the tendency of nations, particularly great powers, to engage in war unjustifiably and to set in motion the apparatus of the state to suppress dissent, the respect accorded to pacifism serves the purpose of alerting citizens to the wrongs that governments are prone to commit in their name.”
- John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
1. House Passes NDAA, With $24B In Extra Pentagon Funding and Strings Attached
2. Afghan Resistance Mulls Formation of Government in Exile
3. Ten Years after the al-Awlaki Killing: A Reckoning for the United States’ Drones Wars Awaits
4. What to Expect When You’re Expecting a National Defense Strategy
5. Securing an Orderly Departure for Afghan Refugees
6. Japan Names China, Russia And N Korea As Cyberspace Threats Who 'steal Military Info'
7. Biden Aims to Rival China’s Belt and Road in Latin America
8. Former Obama-Biden Advisor Elizabeth M. Allen Sworn-In as Asst Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs
9. Top US general: whisperer to presidents, target of intrigue
10. The Necessity of AUKUS
11. Uncovering the French Origins of COIN
12. Interview with Merkel’s Former Foreign Policy Adviser: “I Have Eliminated the ‘West’ from My Vocabulary”
13. Trapped in Afghanistan
14. The author of 'The Things They Carried' tells us what he carried in Vietnam
15. Ransomware attacks are another tool in the political warfare toolbox
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