“…Attacking Hospitals Is Bad…”
Chris is (rightly) not OK with building legitimacy by destroying core infrastructure and destabilizing core governance services.
Interfering with a health facilities 1) delegitimizes coalition forces and the Afghan government; damages the health (and therefore economy) of the local population; provides propaganda material for Taliban forces; hurts the relationship between NGOs and ISAF; and turns global public opinion against the coalition. Put bluntly, attacking hospitals is bad, both for the attacker and the civilian population.
Krugman Diagnostics
States the obvious.
As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
MountainRunner Institute
Great news.
Matt: “Starting the process of creating a 501c3 to receive (and give) grants in the pursuit of better discourse and understanding of public diplomacy and strategic communication.”
Go Team Rogue!
Boydians in the USAF.
Pete Singer on DoD Energy Security
Nice!
Looks like the two of us read the same reports last year (my version of this op-ed included many of the same facts). Unfortunately, mine didn’t make it through the rigorous editing process of ‘think’ tank land 😉 .
Glad to see his did though. Amory Lovins really moved the ball forward on this with his ground breaking work a decade ago, along with friend Vinay Gupta’s help, and so it is great to see Singer has a report out on the topic as well. Enough momentum and you could cause radical change in the fundamentals of warfare.
(H/T Wiggins.)