Foreign Policy magazine has come out with its annual listing of "Failed States. Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the media attention to this list has focused on Iraq being #2 on the list, behind Sudan. Of greater interest to me,...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on June 19, 2007 5:17 PM
The second podcast emerging from the conversation session with RU Sirius last week is now available. RU Sirius Show #109 (Weekend Edition): Why Big War is Becoming Obsolete: Jamais Cascio of WorldChanging fame leads us in a discussion about being...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on May 18, 2007 8:21 AM
The U.S. is Microsoft. Al Qaeda is Linux. That, at least, is the grossly-oversimplified version of John Robb's new book, Brave New War. Such a parallel has nothing to do with politics, but with position. The United States, and other...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on May 13, 2007 1:29 PM
(Previously: The Lost Hegemon (pt 1) and A Post-Hegemonic Future) Few would dispute that the American military is, far and away, the most powerful conventional armed force on the planet, even as depleted as it is by the Iraq war....
Posted by Jamais Cascio on May 2, 2007 9:33 PM
Rolling Stone assembled a round-table discussion with Richard Clarke, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bob Graham, Juan Cole and others (from the military, diplomatic and intelligence services) about three scenarios for the end of the US involvement in the Iraq conflict (note I...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on March 19, 2007 1:29 PM
My colleague at IEET, George Dvorsky, posted a list of concept about the future that he sees as vital for people who consider themselves to be intelligent to know and understand. His goal is admirable: too much of what passes...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on December 31, 2006 1:14 PM
The next five days will see a potentially interesting -- at least to me -- intersection of a variety of important dynamics I've been following closely. ⢠Global guerillas, or the reaction to them. What should be an hour wait...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on August 22, 2006 11:16 PM
I'm getting on a plane in a few days, and I'm not relishing the thought of the wait in the airport beforehand. I normally allow about 90 minutes; this week, I'm going to try to arrive a good three hours...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on August 16, 2006 4:06 PM
The unfolding news about the aircraft bombing plans in the UK hits me pretty hard. I travel to London once a year or so, and two of my closest friends (and their families) live in or around the city. Given...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on August 10, 2006 5:05 PM
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