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		<title>The Blogger Who Came in from the Cold</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 was not the year to quit blogging. The world is on fire. But I have been unable to study the flames. Because I&#8217;m now in them. In other news, I&#8217;ve hit the big time: an article based on my work in graduate school was recently published by Small Wars Journal. The abstract is as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visionsofempire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3720800&amp;post=1027&amp;subd=visionsofempire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dong Feng&#8217;ing in the new year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s magic bullet &#8211; the supposed carrier-killing DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile &#8211; is all over the news&#8230;again. This time because CINCPAC Adm. Robert F. Willard commented that the weapon system had reached &#8220;initial operating capability,&#8221; giving the media yet another excuse to indulge in more orgasmic Sinophilia. Judging by the many gleeful proclamations of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visionsofempire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3720800&amp;post=930&amp;subd=visionsofempire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The voice of Wylie, Clausewitz down under, and a Roman stab in the back</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some fun miscellany: RADM J.C. Wylie is of some significance to this blog. Though I am familiar with his writings and career history, his death 18 years ago precludes anyone from learning more about the man himself. Thus my keen interest when I recently stumbled across a video of Wylie speaking before a USS Fletcher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visionsofempire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3720800&amp;post=924&amp;subd=visionsofempire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was the Soviet Union &#8220;defeated&#8221; in Afghanistan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gen. Mohammad Yousaf, who as an ISI officer coordinated the Afghan resistance campaign from 1983 to 1987, concludes his lively [and utterly parochial] memoir with the following comment: Although I am reluctant to admit it, I feel the only winners in the war in Afghanistan are the Americans. They have their revenge for Vietnam, they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visionsofempire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3720800&amp;post=903&amp;subd=visionsofempire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rest in Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zaanan 1996 &#8211; 2010 You think dogs will not be in heaven?  I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visionsofempire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3720800&amp;post=908&amp;subd=visionsofempire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well that ruined my day</title>
		<link>http://visionsofempire.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/well-that-ruined-my-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ordered a copy of Che Guevara&#8217;s Guerrilla Warfare from Amazon a few days ago. I found a very inexpensive paperback edition that was only about $6.00 brand new, but I did not closely examine the details of the publisher. It arrived in the mail today, at which point I finally noticed the publisher &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visionsofempire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3720800&amp;post=899&amp;subd=visionsofempire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are we going to do about those Dong Feng&#8217;ed missiles?</title>
		<link>http://visionsofempire.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/what-are-we-going-to-do-about-those-dong-fenged-missiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest opportunity for the media to engage in another shameless bout of Sinophilia concerns the rather esoteric topic of maneuverable ballistic re-entry vehicles. A recent Associated Press article loaded with triumphant language declares American supremacy on the high seas all but over, thanks to the latest Chinese magic bullet: the DF-21D. Nothing projects U.S. global air and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visionsofempire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3720800&amp;post=880&amp;subd=visionsofempire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victorian feminism in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://visionsofempire.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/victorian-feminism-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading the diary of Florentia Sale, which because of its meticulous detail is one of the primary historical sources for the disastrous events of the First Anglo-Afghan War. Florentia was the wife of Gen. Robert Sale, one of the most famous officers in British colonial history, known for his apparently total lack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visionsofempire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3720800&amp;post=864&amp;subd=visionsofempire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Morning Miscellaneous Madness</title>
		<link>http://visionsofempire.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/tuesday-morning-miscellaneous-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few odds and ends: Perhaps this company is more widely known that I assume, but if you&#8217;re looking for cheap books, I suggest the Edward R. Hamilton Bookseller Company, which offers some incredible bargains on hardcover books in every subject and flat-rate $3.50 shipping, no matter what the size of your order. Check and money order are the only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visionsofempire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3720800&amp;post=861&amp;subd=visionsofempire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Reading: &#8220;Grand Strategies&#8221; by Charles Hill</title>
		<link>http://visionsofempire.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/worth-reading-grand-strategies-by-charles-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the &#8220;modern statesman&#8221; an oxymoran? Has the quality and skill of foreign policy deteriorated as the classical education has been displaced by the social and behavioral sciences? In his new book  Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order, former diplomat and Yale professor Charles Hill seeks to reconnect the practice of statecraft with its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visionsofempire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3720800&amp;post=843&amp;subd=visionsofempire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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