globalization

Getting Beyond Belligerent Nationalism: A Global Survival Imperative

SWJED — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 15:52:25 +0000

Getting Beyond Belligerent Nationalism: A Global Survival Imperative SWJED Sat, 11/16/2019 - 10:52am

At the outset, world leaders will need to plan rationally, self-consciously and (above all) collaboratively for global survival. More than anything else, this would signify a refreshingly new willingness to realign traditionally narrow judgments of national self-interest with the much wider interests of humankind. Although meeting this complex requirement will at first appear unrealistic, nothing could be less pragmatic than staying stubbornly on our present collision course.

Pulling the Plug

SWJED — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:20:08 +0000

Pulling the Plug SWJED Mon, 12/31/2018 - 2:20pm

Foreign policy in the Trump era is a tug-of-war, a test of wills between national pragmatists and global utopians. Binary equations might be simplistic, but if it has done nothing else, the Trump agenda has exposed the venal politics and pratfalls of “social” democracies, here and in Europe. The contest is a struggle, as irony would have it, between voices arguing for change and the “business as usual” crowd.

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Irregular Warfare and the Two Minds of the Venture Capital Green Beret

Peter J. Munson — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:11:03 +0000

Irregular Warfare and the Two Minds of the Venture Capital Green Beret Peter J. Munson Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:11am

Harnessing the Disruptive Mind of the entrepreneur and investor with
the System Mind of the military and government at the tactical and
strategic level of special operations.