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- Is the Conventional Wisdom on China's Island Bases Dangerously Wrong
- Normalization of Censorship: Evidence From China
- A Brief Technical History of PLAN Nuclear Submarines
- The End of Zeitenwende
- Party On The Bridge: Political Commissars in the Chinese Navy
Reading Outlines (Completed)
- Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
- Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of A Media Manipulator
- Osthanes Talks About Philosophy And Nietzsche
- Why I Didn't Like Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- An Army Trying To Shake Itself From Intellectual Slumber, Part 1: Learning From the 1970s
- An Army Trying To Shake Itself From Intellectual Slumber, Part 2: From 9-11 To Great Power Competition
- Tangled Up In Red
- Life in China's Asia
- Containers and Cloud Security
- Paths forward on Berkeley Culture Discussion
- High Expectations As China's Xi Lands In Nepal
- What The Attack On Saudi Arabia's Oil Facilities Teaches Us
- Firms and Cities Have Open Borders, So Why Not Nations?
- Are Preplanned Exit Strategies a Good Idea in Military Conflicts
- A Better Way To Use Sanctions In Africa
- France Can Save The Kurds In Syria
- The US Navy in an Era of Great Power Competition
- Containing Shiite Militias: The Battle For Stability In Iraq
- Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash
- Is The Conventional Wisdom on China's Island Bases Dangerously Wrong: A Debate
- The 100-ship Navy
- The Houthi Art of War: Why They Keep Winning In Yemen
- The US Navy's Light Amphibious Warfare Ship: Congressional Research Service Report
- Declawing The Tiger: A Rebuttal of the Decision to Phase Out Marine Tank Battalions
- The Generals: American Military Command From World War II To Today
- How To Solve The Nord Stream 2 Dilemma
- Why Common Core Failed
- The Future Combat Air System and the EU's Strategic Acquisition Malaise
- China's Reaction To The Metaverse
- Brookings Panel Discussion on the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Soviet Union
- Ending The Threat of War In Ukraine
- Beijing Is Used To Learning From Russian Failures
- Normalization of Censorship: Evidence From China
- Escalation Management & Nuclear Employment In Russian Military Strategy
- Ukraine and the Future of Offensive Maneuver Warfare
- Local-first Software
- Adversarial Machine Learning and Cybersecurity
- Rationalist Explanations For War
- Stormbreak: Fighting Through Russian Defences In Ukraine's 2023 Offensive
- A Brief Technical History of PLAN Nuclear Submarines
- First Strike: China's Missile Threat To US Bases In Asia
- New Immigration Estimates Help Make Sense of the Pace of Employment
- Naval Logistics in Contested Environments: Examinations of Stockpiles and Industrial Base Issues
- The End of Zeitenwende: Reflections After Two Years of Action Group Zeitenwende
- Can Europe Defend Itself?
- Party on the Bridge: Political Commissars in the Chinese Navy
- Wars Are Not Accidents
- Russia Can Afford To Take A Beating In Ukraine
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Reading Outlines (Draft)
- The Go Programming Language
- What Can A Retired Sailor Teach Us About Turkey
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Challenger Launch Decision
- The Allure of Battle
- When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics
- Explaining Foreign Policy: International Diplomacy and the Russo-Georgian War
- The Yom Kippur War and the Shaping of the United States Air Force
- Chinese Amphibious Warfare: Prospects For A Cross-Strait Invasion
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Interesting Articles
- Institutional Memory and Reverse Smuggling
- Elizabeth Warren's Accountable Corporations Act
- Facebook Executive Andrew Bosworth's Memo re: the 2020 Election
- Latest UK Virus Advice Aims To Cut Deaths to a Few Thousands
- In Defense of the Blob
- Beijing's Big Problem In Inner Mongolia
- China's Reputation For Long Term Planning Is Greatly Exaggerated
- No, China Doesn't Think Decades Ahead In Its Diplomacy
- ICO's Investigation Into Cambridge Analytica Raises Regulatory Questions
- A National Security Reckoning
- Nagorno-Karabakh Letter
- How To Prevent A War In Asia: The Erosion Of American Deterrence Raises The Risk Of Chinese Miscalculation
- Japanese Youth Search For Stability In A World Without Growth
- Matt Taibbi's Interview With Noam Chomsky
- Buttery Smooth Emacs
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- Rationality as neo-catholicism
- An Alternative To Mythic Mindset
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- Hiccup Cure
- Contra Moldbug on Sovereignty
- Combat Aircraft Generations
- Pillsbury
- The etymology of "monoptych"
- Common Soviet air defense systems and their corresponding NATO reporting names
- 2024 Europe/India Trip Notes
