Well, where's the gap between knowledge and it's practical use then?
We're using a method in Iraq designed for certain failure (because of
strategies modeled on attacking a phantom enemy unlike the one actually
interfering with our plans) and causing huge harm in every direction.
add the 15% of ou
I must have missed where science was deferring to the "comity of
political/military defeat." Most scientists, and for that matter,
most professional military people, deplore this gap, though gap is
too nice a word for blindly pursuing ideology in the face of facts.
If you follow it at al
One of the clear examples of emergent human social behavior is the fashion
industry and its adolescent parallel.
In reference to group and selfless behavior, I think it is a miracle that
human societies don't more often collapse, so there must be something inherent
in us that keeps us beh
At the risk of creating a diversion from the purpose of this list ...
It is not the youth of the men that matters, it is their sexuality.
There is a very well known inverse relationship between sex and
violence. Young men (and women in those cultures where they are allowed
to) have the stronge
Jack Stafurik wrote:
> Basic training in almost all armies is deliberately designed to stress the
> recruit/draftee physically and emotionally to break down previous
> commitments to family and friends, and instill commitment to his new unit.
>
Given that it is possible to put arbitrarily larg
There is in my mind nothing wrong with being an ideologue as long as the
ideologies create better conditions for human societies and are permitted to
compete equitably. Most European parliamentary governance is based on this
principle, e.g. the UK & France. The Bush administration is not pri
I guess I think science is mostly an art of speaking accurately about
those things it is possible to be accurate about. Since it seems the
fault in Iraq, is that our army is at war with an indigenous culture,
because it mistakenly tried to 'clean-up' the violent objectors to our
occupation as if
The practice of molding young men by the military has been with us for at
least 2500 years. The prime example is that exemplar of military virtue,
Sparta. From the age of about 7, young men were taken by the state and
through a harsh regimen of physical and emotional abuse were turned into
what
