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To: archy

I’ve read everything Pournelle and Niven-Pournelle have written, including the complete There Will Be War series, and especially the non-fiction. If you haven’t read Strategy of Technology, written with fellow Cold Warrior Stephen Possony, I recommend it highly.

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/slowchange/Strat.html

From Pournelle’s short disquisition on this book:

“For a while it was a textbook in all three Service Academies and remained so for several years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. It was also used at the Air War College in Alabama and the National War College, and it’s my understanding that Xerox copies are used (with our permission) in some classes at the war colleges to this day. “


62 posted on 09/03/2008 10:08:35 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
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To: FreedomPoster

For later.


63 posted on 09/03/2008 10:25:12 AM PDT by Lurker (She's not a lesbian, she doesn't whine, she doesn't hate her country, and she's not afraid of guns.)
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To: FreedomPoster
From Pournelle’s short disquisition on this book:

“For a while it was a textbook in all three Service Academies and remained so for several years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. It was also used at the Air War College in Alabama...

It was still in use when I attended the Maxwell [A.F.B., Alabama] College of Zoomie Knowledge, and I quoted a passage from the book in my otherwise somewhat dry [and, since the India-Pakistana nuclear test exchange of May 1998, now classified] dissertation, Nuclear Proliferation in Southwest Asia: Probabilities and Possibilities.

IMHO, Mr. Possony knows whereof he speaks.

66 posted on 09/03/2008 12:12:37 PM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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