Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words."
- Thomas Reid
“But there is another reason: science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an American in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, no one representation the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influence media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentation on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
- Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World
"This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate."
- Simone de Beauvoir
1. Reflections on 9/11 Twenty Years After
2. Less door-kicking, more resistance: Inside Army SOF’s return to unconventional warfare
3. White House approves partnership with vets evacuating U.S. citizens, Afghan allies
4. Afghanistan Is Not Done With Us; Four Long-Term Dangers Await
5. Failed U.S. Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Ammo For Disinformation Attacks
6. Between Then and Now, They Did Not Die in Vain
7. Army Chief Calls for Afghanistan Review: ‘Let the Cards Fall Where They Fall’
8. Opinion | The Islamic world has changed over the past 20 years. The Taliban is about to feel it.
9. How to prevent future Afghanistan-like disasters
10. The war in Afghanistan is over but military leaders are still trying to hide their failures
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