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Alexa Ispas says:
That’s really great advice Steven, thanks. As writers, we sometimes forget that people care...
S.J.B says:
Looks like James Scott Bell ‘graciously’ pre-empted your book by publishing , The Art of War...
p-dawg says:
Could Mr. Pressfield subconsciously have meant “Junah” in the whale? (I prefer to think that...
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One of the finest books I’ve ever read. The prose is simple, graceful and understated....
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First off, thank you for writing War of Art. I read it yesterday and have already felt its...
Tag Archives: troops
Tribes, the Taliban and the Death of Baitullah Mahsud
I was very interested last week to see what would happen, in terms of leadership succession among the Pakistani Taliban, after the reputed death of Baitullah Mahsud. According to scores of press reports as well as Pakistani and Taliban spokesmen, the immediate aftermath was a shootout involving two rival successors, Hakimullah Mahsud and Wali ur-Rehman, [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Editorial, On Tribalism Also tagged Afghanistan, Baitullah Mahsud, Pakistan, Taliban, tribal mindet, Tribalism, tribes 1 Comment
From a Vietnam Vet: A Guest Blog
My dear friend Printer Bowler is a former army captain who served with psychological operations units in Viet Nam (1966-67). He was attached to the Third Marine Amphibious force, I Corps near the DMZ. He’s a perennial history student, now teaching, writing and pumping out radical troop-support propaganda from his home in Montana. It’s a pleasure [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Guest Blogger, On Tribalism Also tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, DMZ, Ho Chi Minh, Iraq, Islam, McNamara, Pentagon, Printer Bowler, Sun Tzu, Taliban, Third Marine Amphibious, tribal mindet, Tribalism, Vietnam 2 Comments
Weekend Mashup—August 21 to 23