Updates - Blogs of War

Evaluating the North Korean Threat

Phil Walter joins returns to the show to look at how the U.S. processes and evaluates the threat posed by North Korea. We try to separate the rhetoric and action to cut through the hype. Is war with North Korea likely? Is it justified?

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Blogs of War Gets a New Look (and a New Platform)

I've periodically checked in on the Ghost publishing platform as a potential solution over the past couple of years. I wasn't quite ready to make the move in 2015 or 2016 but I recently checked back in on the project and liked what I saw.

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Covert Contact Returns - And Other News

Covert Contact returned today with a new episode that was originally recorded (but not released) in October. Andrew Trabulsi joins me to discuss the challenges inherent in forecasting technology-driven change and we close out the show with some thoughts on how data was used during the presidential campaign and how

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Podcasting the 2016 Insanity

Podcast episodes for the first and second presidential debates are up. My thoughts are mostly confined to the national security elements and fairly reserved. That’s more of a reflection on my weariness with the non-stop insanity of the election than my true outrage. If I gave in to that

Covert Contact

Preview: The Impact of War

Last night Phil Walter and I discussed the impact that war has had on him. We spent an hour discussing how he copes with the inevitable lasting changes that war brings and how those changes have impacted his work in government since. I’ve made a short, but powerful preview,

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Covert Contact Podcast Update

I’ve been hard at work on the podcast and it is going to be the focus of my efforts for the foreseeable future. Guests are already being booked for January and I’m excited about the lineup. Much of the work is occurring behind the scenes. Over the past

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The Podcast is Back: Future Plans, How To Follow Along, and How You Can Get Involved.

Podcasting, especially when you lack any particular talent for it, is hard work. But it’s rewarding and worth the effort so I’ve managed to shift some projects around and re-prioritize things to put the podcast first. The only visible aspect of this reorganization will be a substantial reduction

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The Facebook Experiment

I’ve never really committed to making Blogs of War available on Facebook. There’s been a page there for years and it has seen the occasional update but it has been largely neglected because, well because I hate Facebook. And seeing as how Blogs of War isn’t a

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Less is More: Tweaking the Tweets

If you’ve followed @blogsofwar on Twitter for long you know that it’s not uncommon for me to experiment with content and the way that it’s delivered. At times the feed has been fully human, at others almost fully driven by aggregation tools that I use on the