Awarded to friends of the company for outstandingly kind, thoughtful, helpful or heroic contributions to the cause. Today’s winner: Mark Safranski.
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John Boyd makes an appearance in Chapter One of Thomas Barnett’s GREAT POWERS.
15. To remain “fit” . . . grand strategy needs to attract more allies than it repulses.
On Boyd’s life and influence, read Robert Coram, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (New York: Little, Brown, 2002); on this specific point, see Chet Richards, “Grand Strategy,” found online at www.d-n-i.net/fcs/boyd_grand_strategy.htm, and Mark Safranski, editor, The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War (Ann Arbor, MI: Nimble Books, 2008), which contains a foreword by yours truly on Boyd’s impact upon the field.
via Endnotes for Great Powers, Chapter One (Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog).
Beginning January 20, 2009 Nimble Books began releasing a series of “Nimble” books about THE AGE OF OBAMA.
Released so far:
- AGE OF OBAMA: A REPORTER’S JOURNEY WITH CLINTON, MCCAIN AND OBAMA IN THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 2008 by Mark Curtis of MarkCurtisMedia.com
- THREATS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA edited by Michael Tanji of Threatswatch.org and with contributions from Daniel H. Abbott, Chris Albon, Matt Armstrong, Matthew Burton, Molly Cernicek, Christopher Corpora, Shane Deichman, Adam Elkus, Matt Devost, Bob Gourley, Art Hutchinson, Samuel Liles, Tom Karako, Carolyn Leddy, Adrian Martin, Gunnar Petersen, Cheryl Rofer, Mark Safranski, Steve Schippert, Tim Stevens, and Shlok Vaidya
- PERSUADER-IN-CHIEF: GLOBAL OPINION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE AGE OF OBAMA by Dr. Nancy Snow of Syracuse University
- OBAMA DOES GLOBALISTAN (Pepe Escobar, Asia Times and Real News Network)
The open invitation for proposals remains open. The specs are:
- 8000-100,000 words (32 – 240 pages)
- Some repurposed material ok
- Edited collections ok
- Any political viewpoint ok
- Illustrations OK, either B&W or color
- Nimble Books standard contract.
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