People, ideas, machines
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2022-03-10
'People, ideas, machines' I: Notes on ‘Winning the Next War’
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2022-03-18
'People, ideas, machines' II: catastrophic thinking on nuclear weapons
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2022-03-28
'People, ideas, machines' III: More on the fallacies of nuclear deterrence amid danger, exertion, uncertainty, and chance
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2022-04-20
'People, ideas, machines' IV: The Kill Chain
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2022-08-24
'People, ideas, machines' V: Colin Gray on Defence Planning
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2023-01-20
People, ideas, machines VI: the War Diaries of Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
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2024-02-23
People, ideas, machines VII: 'The Wizard War' - lessons on technology, intelligence & organisation from World War II
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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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2024-08-19
People, ideas, machines IX: A) Britain's 'Organization of Victory' 1793-1815 and B) Metternich & European Community
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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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2025-04-30
People, ideas machines XI: Leo Strauss, modernity and regime change
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2025-05-28
People, ideas, machines XII: Theories of regime change and civil war
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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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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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2026-03-25
People, Ideas, Machines XV: TS Eliot on culture, religion, class, elites, education, 'progressives'
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2026-05-31
People, Ideas, Machines XVI: ideas from Lee Kuan Yew on how to rescue Britain