Fragmentation and Stalemate: Speculating on Conflict

“Strategic stalemate: when force correlations approach equilibrium and guerrilla warfare becomes the most important activity.” Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army Commander, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center Counterinsurgency Field Manual, FM3-24, MCWP 3-33.5 (2006) “For when the mind is taken up in vision and fixes its view either on any real object or mere […]

On Apathy, or an Anti-Manifesto Adumbrating All Things Contingent and Trite

by James D. Poborsa Apathy is a ruse… an indignant ruse… Yet apathy has its merits, as it at once maintains and punctures the banality of the everyday with the detached indifference and tepid contemplation necessary for overcoming its seemingly callous grip. To be intellectually apathetic is not to feign indifference or refrain from thetic […]

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Fragmentation and Stalemate: Speculating on Conflict

On Apathy, or an Anti-Manifesto Adumbrating All Things Contingent and Trite