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The Art of Influence
- Mz 11y agoThe style of the layout of this article is intriguing.
- javajosh 11y agoI'm getting massive layout breakage on Chrome 45 (OSX).
- kitwalker12 11y agosame here...at first I thought it could be my adblocker, but it breaks completely without it as well. on Safari my laptop fan started moving so loud, it felt it was going to take off
- sehr 11y agoChrome 45 on 2011 MBA, 4gb ram w/ uBlock on Worked really, really well. CPU jumped to ~50% when scrolling though.
- coltontest 11y agoNot even readable on a 2014 MBP 16GB ram, Chrome 45, OSX Yosemite
- iliaznk 11y agoCool site, this is what I see http://cl.ly/image/0v1A2z3H3S0i http://cl.ly/image/0v1A2z3H3S0i
- sabirc 11y agoCould someone elaborate on the intent schematic that was used to plan the attack? I have always wondered how big military operations were developed, it's hard to imagine anything of that size and complexity in the civilian world.
- ryanmarsh 11y agoI'm sorry that I don't have direct links but most US military doctrine can be found easily in the for of FM's and TM's (field and technical manuals respectively). Many of which are available free on the Internet. FM's are usually written in a terse and skimmable format. A good place to start might be US Army FM 7-8 (that's "seven dash eight" not "seven through eight")
- mildweed 11y agoIs it just me, or did they leave out all the interesting details of how they used influence?
- drited 11y agoI came away disappointed about the level of detail on that too. Also I wondered on the political nuance of why Semple was expelled, that part was quite terse.
- johnflan 11y agoInsightful, particularly with regards to political influence on decision making.
- golergka 11y agoWow, that passages describes exactly what's been happening with Gaza the last few years > Events in Lebanon had added to the growing sense of unease that I had first experienced in Baghdad. When a powerful military is faced by apparent military "weakness", it can respond by an overuse of kinetic force - the "hard power" of attacking with guns, bombs and artillery. > I worried that in Afghanistan, as in Lebanon and before it, Iraq, hard power was not being properly balanced by the application of "soft power" - stabilisation, reconstruction, investment and negotiation. > We were also being out-fought in the propaganda war by an enemy that was more adept and agile in the use of the internet.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoPeople with access to the BBC iPlayer can watch the third quarter of Adam Curtis's "Bitter Lake" to get another angle on this. I find his tale of a ridiculous series of mistakes a bit more compelling.
- dfc 11y agoOr Bram Cohen's IPLayer: 49C2E772BFDB18686FC3384B363F4A544F549150