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		<title>Martin van Creveld explains the essence of Airpower Yesterday,Today, and Tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary:  As we increasingly rely on projecting power from the air, it&#8217;s become more important to understand the history and future of airpower.  As with any aspect of the military arts, we first turn to Martin van Creveld, who has written 22 books about almost every significant aspect of war — technology, logistics, air power and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2055373&amp;post=34289&amp;subd=fabiusmaximus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hot news! The wehrmacht failed to take Greece. Now Germany tries again, with a different method.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary:  Germany used it power over the European Monetary Union to institute a monetary policy that disproportionately benefited itself, to the disadvantage of the periphery nations.  Germany prospered, they lost competitiveness.  Now Germany acts to continue the game, attempting to force the losers to stay in the game.  Now it&#8217;s Greece&#8217;s turn to go under the hammer.  Will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2055373&amp;post=34663&amp;subd=fabiusmaximus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Question time on the FM website (plus The Week in Review)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We &#8212; and others reading the FM website &#8212; will attempt to answer it in the comments.   All answers welcomed!  This will be the last of these.  The experiement started well, but the questions have tapered off in quality and quantity &#8211; and it requires a lot of work. Contents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2055373&amp;post=33888&amp;subd=fabiusmaximus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The key to building an effective military that we can afford:  bring back the militia!</title>
		<link>http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/34537/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Our military]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary:  Slowly realization spreads that we cannot afford our current military forces.  This forces us to consider new forms of organization.  In this, as in so many things, the Founders give us sound advice.  Militia can provide a key component of our military. &#8220;Going Back to the Future &#8211; Militia Model Could Cut U.S. Expenditures&#8220;, Ron Fogleman, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2055373&amp;post=34537&amp;subd=fabiusmaximus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Europe&#8217;s rulers copying the policies of Herbert Hoover in 1929, or the French Monarchy in 1789?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabius Maximus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Post-WWII era over?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary:  There are two paths for Europe. The path it is on, leading to a painful future and fundamental change.  And the other path, with unknown risks and pain &#8212; but offering the potential for a better future.  The path chosen by Europe&#8217;s leaders reveals much about them.  The outcome will reveal much about Europe&#8217;s peoples. Two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2055373&amp;post=34569&amp;subd=fabiusmaximus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bernard Finel examines American Delusions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bernard finel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: Today guest author Bernard Finel discusses one of the major themes of the FM website:  our broken thinking (aka dysfunctional observation-orientation-decision-action loop).  This was originally posted at his website on 17 January 2012. &#8220;American Delusions&#8221; by Bernard Finel One of the biggest problems with our domestic political discourse is that much of the American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2055373&amp;post=34409&amp;subd=fabiusmaximus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">&#34;The Rise and Consequences of Inequality&#34;, Alan Kruger, 12 Jan 2012</media:title>
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		<title>American faux history:  why did the South leave the Union?</title>
		<link>http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/34445/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary:  The history of the State-sponsored oppression of Black Americans (1776-1964) is the story about one of our two great national sins.  Rather than confess and repent, many Americans prefer to take refuge in lies (the other, our treatment of Native Americans, is resolved by amnesia).  However comforting, this both divides us and diminishes our ability to see ourselves clearly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2055373&amp;post=34445&amp;subd=fabiusmaximus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American faux history: could we have avoided the Civil War?</title>
		<link>http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/34432/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary:  The campaign of Ron Paul reminds us of two of the three great lies that comprise such a large fraction of American history: slavery, stealing land from the Indians, and the role of government in US economic development.  These not only exacerbate divisions in our society but provide a weak foundation for us &#8212; preventing us from clearly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2055373&amp;post=34432&amp;subd=fabiusmaximus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>George Orwell sends us a note, giving some perspective on our situation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary:  None of our problems are unique.  Even the problems of Empire, and the distorting effect of global power on our minds.  Today we have some insights from George Orwell, examining the effect of cancerous nationalism on a nation&#8217;s thinking. Change the names and it could have been written today.  If you cannot see this, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2055373&amp;post=34227&amp;subd=fabiusmaximus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Question time on the FM website (plus The Week in Review)</title>
		<link>http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/33705/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We &#8212; and others reading the FM website &#8212; will attempt to answer it in the comments.   All answers welcomed!  This is the penultimate chapter in this series (next week will be the last).  It started well, but the questions have tapered off in quantity and quality &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2055373&amp;post=33705&amp;subd=fabiusmaximus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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