Defence and Freedom
2018/04/30

Narratives as sustainers of excessive military spending

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. Humans are lazy - physically and mentally. It used to be an evolutionary advantage, but it's not exactly helpful in today's comp...
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2018/04/28

Patterns of propaganda for higher military spending

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. A recent post deconstructed a propaganda article that argued for a larger U.S.Navy. This time I will stay more general and more abstra...
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2018/04/25

U.S. military spending in perspective

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2018/04/22

A deconstruction of MICC propaganda

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. I will deconstruct an article about the U.S.Nayy as the military-industrial-congressional complex propaganda that it is, to show how ba...
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2018/04/19

Ultralight portable equipment

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. I have a weakness for minimalism, elegance . That's probably why my primary interest in military hardware these days is about the po...
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2018/04/15

Comment on the recent cruise missile diplomacy

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. The cruise missile strike was conducted by the three nuclear powers in NATO. Its influence on the 24 hrs news cycle is huge, while its i...
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2018/04/14

Two dominant battleship designs and the real sunset of battleships

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. There was a dominant design for battleships in the mid-18th century; the so-called seventy-four gun or 3rd rate ship-of-the-line. This s...
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2018/04/08

Recruitment and retention in the Bundeswehr

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There has been a lot of dissent to and even protest against the personnel policies of the Bundeswehr . The recruitment appears to aim...
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2018/04/07

The Russian "long game"

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. An unsolicited advice: Apply Occam's Razor when someone asserts that Putin's Russia plays the long game to hegemony (or anyt...
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2018/04/06

[Blog] Unpopular things, the big picture and blog (in)activity

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. I have  habit of telling unpopular things, such as telling warship fans that most warships are unnecessary, telling combat aviation fans...
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