People, ideas, machines

  1. 2022-03-10

    'People, ideas, machines' I: Notes on ‘Winning the Next War’

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  2. 2022-03-18

    'People, ideas, machines' II: catastrophic thinking on nuclear weapons

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  3. 2022-03-28

    'People, ideas, machines' III: More on the fallacies of nuclear deterrence amid danger, exertion, uncertainty, and chance

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  4. 2022-04-20

    'People, ideas, machines' IV: The Kill Chain

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  5. 2022-08-24

    'People, ideas, machines' V: Colin Gray on Defence Planning

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  6. 2023-01-20

    People, ideas, machines VI: the War Diaries of Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff

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  7. 2024-02-23

    People, ideas, machines VII: 'The Wizard War' - lessons on technology, intelligence & organisation from World War II

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  8. 2024-06-11

    People, ideas, machines VIII: CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton, 'a wilderness of mirrors', covert operations, assassinations, moles & double agents, disinformation

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  9. 2024-08-19

    People, ideas, machines IX: A) Britain's 'Organization of Victory' 1793-1815 and B) Metternich & European Community

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  10. 2025-03-06

    People, ideas, machines X: Freedom's Forge - the story of American business and industrial production in World War II

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  11. 2025-04-30

    People, ideas machines XI: Leo Strauss, modernity and regime change

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  12. 2025-05-28

    People, ideas, machines XII: Theories of regime change and civil war

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  13. 2025-08-29

    People, ideas machines XIII: The origins and evolution of the Cabinet Office, the heart of darkness in the permanent government

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  14. 2025-11-02

    People, Ideas, Machines XIV: lessons from preparing for government in 1979 & how No10 worked in the Thatcher regime

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  15. 2026-03-25

    People, Ideas, Machines XV: TS Eliot on culture, religion, class, elites, education, 'progressives'

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  16. 2026-05-31

    People, Ideas, Machines XVI: ideas from Lee Kuan Yew on how to rescue Britain

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