About Me
- Mark Jacobsen
- C-17 Pilot, Middle East Regional Affairs Specialist, Olmsted Scholar in Jordan (2009-2011), Software Developer, Writer. Visit my blog at www.buildingpeace.net. You can follow me at @reach364.
What I'm Reading
- Islam Without Extremes by Mustafa Akyol
- Crescent & Star by Stephen Kinzer
- The Dervish House by Ian MacDonald
- Makers of Ancient Strategy, ed. Victor Davis Hanson
- A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
Twitter Updates
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
