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Military, Strategic and Security Studies Blog Posts

The blog posts below are all tagged in Technorati as being about Military, Strategic and Security Studies. They may be 'lighter' reading than you're used to, or they may be surprisingly academic and in-depth - it all depends on the individual blogger (or the individual blog post). We hope you find them interesting, informative, and engaging.

We also hope that they'll help you discover some blogs that you'll bookmark to read regularly, whether they're for your education, your continual professional development or for leisure & recreation.

Blog posts that contain the word military strategic studies per day for the last 60 days:

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What is a blog?: Shortened from "web log", a blog is an online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger". Blogs are an increasingly popular form of online peer-publication.

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (Paperback) newly tagged “book”

posted on Thu, 29 May 2008 14:37:10 -0700

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (Paperback) By Peter Paret Buy new: $39.95 $34.30 45 used and new from $9.90 Customer Rating: First tagged “book” by Astrodeals “Gary” Customer tags: military history(3), strategic studies(2), military strategy(2), books, war, astrodeals, book, political philosophy, peter paret

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Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Teaching Imperialism 101

posted on Mon, 05 May 2008 12:54:01 -0700

The RAND Corporation was the ur-think tank, the Cold War granddaddy of them all, and it’s still with us. In the 1950s, nuclear war-gaming a conflagration for which the usual war games would have been ludicrous, it took the U.S. military into virtuality and science fiction long before there was an Internet to play with. (And it had a hand in creating the Internet, too!) In the 1960s, it helped several administrations plan and fight the Vietnam War, making antiseptic theory into an all-too-grim

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Stop-loss and resocialized convicts

posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:46:43 -0700

From the Big Issue’s Apr 21-27, 2008 (p.16) review of Kimberly Pierce’s Stop-Loss where the main character, played by Ryan Phillippe, goes AWOL after being stop-lossed: As Pierce was working on a storyline about a ‘band of brothers’ returning the war, she received a message from a soldier in Iraq asking if she had heard of a policy called stop-loss. She hadn’t. He said it was a ‘backdoor draft’, that the government was ‘…involuntarily extending the tours of soldiers who have already fulfilled

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India, Pakistan ink security exchange pact

posted on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:09:19 -0800

New Delhi, Feb 4 (ANI): India and Pakistan on Monday inked an agreement to exchange security information. The accord clears the way for regular contacts between India’s military-funded Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) and Pakistan’s state-run Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS). The purpose is to build channels of communication at the level of scholars, because exchanges of security studies had been limited because of the strained ties we have had, ISS director Shireen Maz

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