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The Straussian Moment
gwern.netWorld Edition - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com
My course "Political Order, Violence and Institutions".
Main topics and required readings (of course, also a lot of suggested ones...).
30 lectures between April and June at @LaStatale https://t.co/OZWr8wDMk9
Europe’s expansion amounted in part to a deliberate assault on the modernizing ventures of other peoples and states. Perhaps it was not Europe’s modernity that triumphed, but its superior capacity for organized violence.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
London Review of Books
lrb.co.uk
cold-blooded need for control.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Peter McCabe and Paul Lieber’s edited volume, Special Operations Theory (McCabe 2017)
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
🧵Part 2: From Thesis to Warfare
🎓 1999: Thesis
🕵️♂️ 2010–2023: Execution
As a cadet Fidan discussed his thesis as a theoretical vision, as a MIT chief during the Syrian CW, he put it into practice-- building a bloody transnational instrument of hegemony. ⬇️... See more