Tag Archives: military

Sublime News #4

1. As you may have noticed, I’ve radically simplified the website. I regret having to remove the Twitter integration and coolest navigation features. Nonetheless, it was unavoidable. The website loaded far too slowly most of the time, and when I got linked to from A Fistful of Euros, the resulting upsurge in visitor numbers repeatedly [...]
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Sublime News #3

1. Over the long-term, it is the less-noticed things that generally come to be regarded as the most important. The rise of China, not the war on terror. Peak oil and the declining EROEI of our energy sources, not stock market bumps and falls. And so on. In this spirit, the recent NATO exercises in the [...]
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Sublime News #2

1. In response to Gregor’s surprise over my lack of mention of the Dubai assassination – don’t think it’s important or that anything substantial will come out of it. Britain may make a media ruckus over the faking of their citizens’ passports, but in the end analysis, the UK is closely aligned with the US, [...]
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Sublime News #1

I am beginning a new post category, Sublime News, in which I collate and comment on news bits and pieces that I find interesting over the past week. Whatever I write over the week will be automatically published every Saturday, 12pm (California time). This first post will be exceptional in that it will cover a [...]
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SSR #8: On Future War

This is the fourth post in my series of Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. In this issue I am going to look at the future of military technology and war strategy in a world of informatization, resource scarcity, and renewed ideological turbulence. Be forewarned: while some of what I write here [...]
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SSR #13: China, The Last Superpower

This is the third of my Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. After two hundred years of global ascendancy, the West is in rapid relative decline to (re)emerging Asia, which is mounting a steady “Great Reconvergence”. Likewise, the legitimacy of today’s “neoliberal internationalist” order promoted by the West is being questioned by the more [...]
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Regathering of the Russian Lands

I have long noted Russia’s resurgence back into the ranks of the leading Great Powers; I predicted that the global economic crisis will not have a long-term retarding impact on the Russian economy; and within the past year I have bought into Stratfor’s idea that the defining narrative now in play in Eurasia is Russia’s [...]
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New Year Special: Year in Review and 2010 Predictions

I would like to wish all Sublime Oblivion readers a very happy and successful New Year. One of my major motivations for writing is getting comments and feedback, so please continue – the more you inflate my ego, the more time I will feel compelled to spend on the blog. Please feel free [...]
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