Think Tanks Do Have Points

We're Not Free Because Other People Are Nice, Maybe Other People Aren't Nice That Day. We're Free Because We Expect The Institutions Of Government To Work Impersonally. That We Expect People In Government To Understand They Don't Work For The President Or The Prime Minister, They Work For The Government. And The Government Is Always There.

President Trump Watches A Lot Of Television. I Mean, Really A Lot. His Favourite Channel Is Fox. Now Just Imagine Somebody Wants Put A Message In Front Of The President. You Can Hire A Lobbyist Or You Can Buy A Minute On Fox Or You Can Even Pay Somebody At A Think Tank To Articulate Your Message And Then Pay A Booker At That Think Tank To Get That Person On Fox And Put The Thought Directly In The President's Ear.

An American-led Overthrow Of Saddam Hussein - And The Replacement Of The Radical Baathist Dictatorship With A New Government More Closely Aligned With The United States Would Put America More Wholly In Charge Of The Region Than Any Power Since The Ottomans, Or Maybe Even The Romans.

My Mom Was Truly An Iconic Figure, A Great Journalist And A Pioneering Woman Who Died At 54 Of Cancer Without Ever Having Revealed To Viewers That She Was Ill.

One Might Almost Say, To Adapt Von Clausewitz, That Modern Warfare Is Pr By Other Means. And War-winning Strategies Mean That Modern Armies Most Stop Treating Their Communications Operations As Secondary Assignments Or (as Still Too Often Happens) Dumping Grounds For Officers Who Have Failed At Everything Else - But As Missions Absolutely Essential To Success.