» RETHINKING SECURITY: Bringing Strategy Back Into IR?

rethinkingsecurity:

Infinity Journal recently released a brief that notes that war, strategy, and policy are not well-taught in IR courses:

“[M]ost IR courses talk around war, as if it were ancillary, something avoidable, an aberration — so long as war isn’t studied, it isn’t a threat. Unfortunately, most IR…

Unf, this is really quite good; click through and take a read!

Additionally, this attitude that “so long as war isn’t studied, it isn’t a threat,” or, to put it another way, that understanding the causes, methods, and consequences of war is tantamount to condoning war, that knowing military science and being militaristic are inseparable  is also a major problem in the teaching of history, and hampers our understanding of the course of events both past and present.

laustrade:

m0rmanthefuckup:

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Actual tears right now

dappadup:

dressed to kill

epicstory:

Scully: Mr. Bruckman, there are hits and there are misses. And then there are misses.
Clyde: I just call them as I see them.

weirdsociology:

WHAT IS GOING ON

WAT

#gotta point out that it never says to not turn introverts into extroverts #that’s because we have an extrovert ideal and extroverts are valued higher than introverts

Yes, there is an extrovert ideal, but #12 under “How to Care for Introverts” actually says “Respect their introversion, don’t try to remake them into Extroverts.”

theongreyjoy:

wow no you don’t understand

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