Archive for February, 2009
There is always theater in the writing of a defense budget. That is true no more so than this year, when a string of unusual events has made the American military process even more complicated than usual. In 2009-2010, the defense budget is…
Being made by a Democratic President and Democratic Congress for the [...]
The GOP made a big show of not cooperating with President Obama’s passage of the stimulus bill last week. No Republican member of the House voted for the bill and only three GOP Senators did so. There are three major political implications of the way the bill was passed:
Legislative power in the government [...]
On this day in history, the United States took actions that came to symbolize the contradictions of the Pacific War, at home and abroad. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of ethnic Japanese (Issei) and Japanese-Americans (Nisei) living in the western U.S.. In 1945, assault [...]
The United States has focused so closely on conventional warfare in all its forms–land, sea, and air–that it has trouble when forms of warfare that are resolutely unconventional crop up. American weapons, doctrine, and training are unprepared to react quickly to situations that do not fit into the preconceived mindset. Even worse, the [...]
“Don’t blame us for sucking at our jobs.”
It is a commonplace of analysis–historical and otherwise–to suggest that militaries fight the last war. So commonplace, that it has trickled into analyses of non-military matters, such as Investment banking. The truism is, unfortunately, not particularly true. Rather, militaries prepare to fight the last war that they want to fight. Generals [...]
The Jamestown Project- Small Tent April 16, 2009 dsilbey
- Votes Have Consequences, or Regionalization (continued) April 14, 2009 dsilbey
- What A Regional Party Looks Like April 7, 2009 dsilbey
- What Defeat Looks Like March 31, 2009 dsilbey
- The Wrong Question March 30, 2009 dsilbey
- silbey@h-war
- ANN: Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq Video Lecture Poste
- REPLY: Trinidad during World War II (3 Responses)
- CROSS-POSTED REVIEW: H-Net Review Publication: 'About Soldiers, More or Less'
- TOC: _Defence and Peace Economics_ , Volum e 20 Issue 3
- TOC: Journal of Conflict Resolution Table of Contents for 1 August 2009; Vol. 5
- Silbey@twitter
- silbey: You know it's the 21st century when your four-year-old uses the DVR remote control to pause the TV, gets candy, and then starts it again.
- silbey: @msilbey Or there's only a _Mother's_ Club: http://bit.ly/3vZVdg
- silbey: It's the 21st century when the local Jewish deli has wifi.
- silbey: @msilbey And gorilla!
- silbey: @thecline Sportsguy video: comedy gold. Extra bonus: the Doug Christie jersey he's wearing.
- silbey: @msilbey Hilarious. I think we should shout "Bingo" whenever the Redskins score from now on.
- silbey: @msilbey It's all about Vitamin D: http://bit.ly/2WlzpO
- silbey: Comedy gold: http://bit.ly/HmBm6
- silbey: @msilbey http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/healing/
- silbey: @kdhopwood What she said.
