Sublime

we expect nationalism to be a major rallying theme of persons with low skills nostalgic for compulsion as the welfare state collapses in the Western democracies. You haven’t seen anything yet.

Hence as knowledge became the most important economic resource, the profitability of war declined and wars became increasingly restricted to those parts of the world – such as the Middle East and Central Africa – where the economies are still old-fashioned material-based economies.

the talent paradox remained unresolved for a simple reason: the problem isn’t cultural. The military’s problem is a deeply anti-entrepreneurial structure at the gritty level of personnel policy. From officer evaluations to promotions to job assignments, all branches of the military operate more like a government bureaucracy with a unionized workfor

Orienting development toward defense over offense tends toward containment.

sphere sovereignty

what the media was calling “globalization” had almost nothing to do with the effacement of borders and the free movement of people, products, and ideas. It was really about trapping increasingly large parts of the world’s population behind highly militarized national borders within which social protections could be systematically withdrawn, creatin

Between Japan and Europe, we must make Singapore the best place to bunker and repair ships, either in drydock or on water. Once we have established ourselves as the ship repairing and shipbuilding centre, we will remain so for a very long time. For once supremacy has been established, whether it is an airport, a harbour, or a dockyard, it is very d