I'm speechless. I really am. Thanks for the link, Danger Room.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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About Me
- Reach 364
- I am a Captain in the United
States Air Force and a C-17 pilot. I have a Master's Degree
in International Relations, studied Arabic at the Defense Language
Institute, and am currently furthering my graduate studies in Amman,
Jordan. My wife is an educator with a heart for social
justice and racial reconciliation. Together we feel called to
the business of peacemaking. We do not believe peacebuilding
is easy. It is hard, and false idealism is dangerous. But we believe that the small, incremental actions of dedicated individuals can, in the long run, build a better world.
I also believe in openness, transparency, and the power of new media to improve decision-making processes and create better policy. This blog chronicles my own development as an officer and is my contribution to the marketplace of ideas.
Reach 364 was the callsign of my first international mission as a C-17 Aircraft Commander.
These are my personal views and do not reflect the position of the Air Force or the US government.
What I'm Reading
- The Heart of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Muslim Mafia by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry
- Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn
- The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Good Sites Online
- Abu Muqawama
- Congressional Research Service
- Constructively Discontented
- Earlybird
- Foreign Affairs
- Global Guerillas
- International Crisis Group
- Jihadica
- KurzweilAI.net
- Mountainrunner
- Natural Security
- Open the Future
- Pick Your Battles
- Small Wars Journal
- Steve Walt
- The Best Defense
- The Cable
- The Economist
- The Middle East Channel
- The Official Google Blog
- The Olmsted Foundation
- Wings Over Iraq
- Wired: Danger Room
- Wired: Threat Level
- Zenpundit
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- Three rules for winning hearts and minds
- That's Impressive
- Random thoughts on cybersecurity
- On root canals and cultural prejudice
- Second Life Conference Review
- Air Force hosts Second Life conference tonight
- Exploring cybersecurity
- The Virtue of Self-Criticism
- On second thought...
- Israel and The Biden Visit
- Enough with the torture, already
- Touring Jordan
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2 comments:
Its a Systems Dynamics Model. Model outputs are not plans. They are meant to spur conversation. TPM, Danger Room, and now you are obscuring the value of SDMs. Armchair Generalist gets it right.
If you haven't seen Stephen Colbert's "Afghandyland" segment based on this chart, it's worth watching? http://tinyurl.com/ybsvuhc
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