Managing Editor @TheNatlInterest. Catskill Tory. South Asia observer. Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo. Opinions my own.
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My interview with the Sikyong of the self-declared #Tibetan government in exile, Penpa Tsering @SikyongPTsering in @TheNatlInterest
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As Russian influence is challenged in Central Asia, Uzbekistan masterfully manages its options with rising regional powers. Thank you, @TheNatlInterest, @AndyKuchins, and @Beaconsfieldist.nationalinterest.org/blog/si…
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🧵 ‘China’s Wars’ (2026) by @VGokhale59, India’s former Foreign Secretary (2018-20) and former ambassador to China (2016-17), has excellent coverage of China and its wars / crises of 1958, 1962, 1969 and 1979 but the real value is in his concluding lessons for India. (1/23)
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RIP Patrick Stewart. A tremendous Lenin in Fall of Eagles. Even looked a bit like Lenin. Also Sejanus. Basically top notch at ruthless bastards from European history
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Patrick Stewart playing Sejanus in the 1976 BBC production of ‘I, Claudius’. ⚔️
This take gives the prequels far too much credit. But it’s clear that General Grievous is a classic opera buffa villain complete with a cape and campy winks at the audience (“time to abandon ship!”). If he had eyebrows they’d be arched all the time.
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Attracting talented people from India has been a huge American advantage. Turning them into targets of racial resentment is a sure way to squander it. A serious agenda for American competitiveness should recognize that.
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Look at these two houses that are across the street from each other in Boston’s Beacon Hill lol
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Good morning all & today is the Feast Day of Blessed Karl von Habsburg, the last Emperor of Austria-Hungary, who is patron of statesmen, diplomats, military officers & husbands (why his feast day is the anniversary of his marriage to Empress Zita) ✝️ emperorcharles.org
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Had forgotten about Hugh Trevor-Roper's Ten Commandments for English style. From the 2nd Commandment flows all.
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Fun fact; there's a pretty serious argument this hat, the pakol, has origins in the Macedonian Kausia, worn by the soldiers of Alexander and the Kings of Bactria. It's extremely similar.
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Good analysis of the challenges Pakistan faces if it were to get involved in Yemen. One that is not mentioned is that Pakistan is also in a quasi war with the Taliban Afghanistan. Would Iran exploit that vulnerability?If Pakistan open a front with Houthis, would Iran throw its support behind the Taliban? Comments by an Iranian parliamentarian in Kabul last week caused quite a bit of worry in Islamabad.
Pakistan’s hard choice on Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen ft.trib.al/7hP6ykB
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In my debut with DARC, I argue America should view gamers as a strategic well of untapped know-how and purposefully tailor high-tech weapons for the way gamers learn.
We're thrilled to kick off our series on video games and warfare today with this piece from @VestutiMarco arguing that @DeptofWar should adopt a new paradigm of "playable weapons": leaning into gaming interfaces as a way of accelerating soldier effectiveness with new systems.
