True to the final set of major posting, I am going to devote this week’s posts to a variety of topics. I have no definite subject that I would like to cover at the moment, and there are indeed a… Read More ›
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Update (9 August 2022)
It looks like my comments for the latest posts on the ARPLAN Blog were not approved. That should not bother me in the slightest because there are other topics worthy of writing at the moment. For now, I will be… Read More ›
The Relation of Diplomacy to War – Antoine-Henri Jomini — Strategic Studies Book Club
Synopsis: The American military has long been bewitched operationally and strategically by Antoine-Henri Jomini’s formulaic approach to warfare. The universality of the Jominian consciousness is so well established other strategic schools usually operate beside it – or as a passing… Read More ›
“‘Council State’ or ‘Corporate State?'”
Anyone who reads The Fourth Estate will know that I tend to republish comments responding to monthly posts on the ARPLAN Blog. While my Blog is more focused on post-1945 discussions of Political Science and the fields which intersect with… Read More ›
Conservative Socialism: On Julius Krein (Pt. II of II)
In another American Conservative publication, American Compass, Julius devoted an article to the question of economic planning within Hamiltonianism. He maintained throughout “Planning for When the Market Cannot” that there will always be a necessity for economic planning in any… Read More ›
Economic History Case Studies: Asian Tigers (Pt. III of III)
Taiwan, formerly known as “Formosa,” has historically been an island contested by various colonial powers vying for control of neighboring Mainland China. Its geographical location also made it ideal for facilitating trade between China, Korea and Japan, which was exactly… Read More ›
Economic History Case Studies: Asian Tigers (Pt. II of III)
Similar to Hong Kong, Singapore’s economic history was shaped by its former status as a British colony. The city-state once dubbed by Winston Churchill as the “Gibraltar of the East” came into being as another entrepôt for the British Empire…. Read More ›
Economic History Case Studies: Asian Tigers (Pt. I of III)
The term “Asian Tigers,” in reference to the South Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Konger and Singaporean economic governance models, is also a product of its own historical circumstances. It came to describe the levels of economic growth in Kapital Accumulation that… Read More ›
Logistical Complications: Seamines and Rail Gauges
Last night, while looking for interesting articles worthy of mention here, I came across a website called The Drive and a segment called “The Warzone.” Whereas The Drive is geared toward the automotive industry, “The Warzone” focuses on the historical… Read More ›
Karl Radek’s Critique of National Bolshevism
Bogumil, If there was something which binds the narratives of “Revolutionary People’s War or Counter-Revolutionary Civil War?” and Karl Radek’s subsequent critique, it would arguably be their discussions of 20th century geopolitics. My conclusion that the geopolitical conclusions of Laufenberg… Read More ›
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