The old standards are still the standards.
Fundamentals have not changed, only incidentals.
We go here and there looking for God.
Truth is, we are ever only looking right at Him.
The word Freedom is code for opportunity to live the life one is born to live. Each one is unique. Each one demands and is owed freedom by their own personal Divine Right.
My reading list for strategic intelligence precedes the video embedded below. The more thorough and erudite reading list for strategic intelligence deployed by my friend Professor Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz for his courses at The Institute Of World Politics in Washington D.C. follows the video.
Euclid:
Feliks Koneczny:
On The Plurality Of Civilizations
Pere Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:
The Phenomenon of Man and amusingly Contra
Halford John Mackinder:
The Geographical Pivot Of History
Mackinder’s Heartland thesis.
See especially Chapter 7, The Freedom Of Men. Mackinder expounds on differences between representation by communities and representation by interests. Government protects equal opportunity, does not promote it. Government protects growth, does not try to initiate it. Parable of the Gardner on page 245. However, the entire book is a masterpiece of strategic intelligence, and still in effect because it reaches unchanging fundamentals.
Travels In Arabia Deserta, Volume One, Volume Two
Carl von Clausewitz:
Saul Bernard Cohen:
Geopolitics: The Geography Of International Relations
A. T. Mahan:
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
Julian S. Corbett:
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz:
Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas
David R. Graham
Three Brothers Doctrine: Rationale, Nature, Objectives, Implementations
Studies in Strategics
Studies in Sovereignty
Studies in Theological Geography
Angelo M. Codevilla:
Advice To War Presidents: A Remedial Course In Statecraft — excerpts here
Homer:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Michael Howard:
Lord Kinross:
Gilbert Keith Chesterton:
Nicholas Taleb:
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Lester W. Grau and Charles K. Bartles
Georgii Samoilovich Isserson
The Evolution Of Operational Art
See also Deep Operation/Battle
My gratitude extends to my friend Professor Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz for the following reading list he deploys for his courses in strategic intelligence at The Institute Of World Politics in Washington D.C.
Primary Reading:
James E. Dougherty and Robert L. Pflatzgraff, Jr., Contending Theories of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey, 5th edition (New York: Longman, 2001). ISBN 0-321-04831-8
Adda B. Bozeman, Politics and Culture in International History: From the Ancient Near East to the Opening of the Modern Age (New Brunswick, NJ., and London: Transaction Publishers, 2002). ISBN 1-56000-735-4
Alberto M. Piedra, Natural Law: The Foundation of An Orderly Economic System (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004). ISBN 0-7391-0934-0
John Lenczowski, Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011).
J. Michael Waller, ed., The Public Diplomacy Reader (Washington, DC: The Institute of World Politics Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0615-15765-8
Angelo Codevilla and Paul Seabury, War: Ends and Means, 2nd ed. (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Inc., 2006).
Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Simon Dalby, and Paul Routledge, The Geopolitics Reader, 2nd ed. (London and New York: Routledge, 2006). ISBN 0-415-34148-5
R.J. Rummel, Death by Government (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997). ISBN 978-1560009276
National Geographic, Concise Atlas of the World (Washington, DC: The National Geographic Society, 2003).
Recommended reading:
Walter A. McDougall, “Why Geography Matters… But Is So Little Learned,” Orbis (Spring 2003): 217-233 (reader).
Jeremy Black, “Mapping the Past: Historical Atlases,” Orbis (Spring 2003): 277-93 ( reader).
David G. Hansen, “The Immutable Importance of Geography,” Parameters: US Army War College Quarterly (Spring 1997): 55-64 (reader).
Robert Strausz-Hupe and Stefan Possony, International Relations (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950), chapter III: “Geography and Foreign Policy of Nations” (reader).
Whittaker Chambers, “Letter to My Children,” in Witness (New York: Random House, 1952) (reader).
Phillip Jessup, “When Does a State Exist?” in Richard H. Cox, ed., The State in International Relations (San Francisco: Chandler, 1965) (reader).
Robert Strausz-Hupe and Stefan Possony, International Relations (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950), chapter I: “Major Premise of Foreign Policy” (reader).
Thomas L. Pangle, “The Moral Basis of National Security: Four Historical perspectives,” in Klaus Knorr, ed., Historical Dimensions of National Security Problems (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1976) (reader).
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973), chapter 16: “International Morality,” (reader).
Edward Luttwak, “The Missing Dimension,” in Douglas Johnston and Cynthia Sampson, Religion: the Missing Dimension of Statecraft (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) (reader).
Walter A. McDougall, “Religion in World Affairs,” Orbis (Spring 1998) (reader).
George Weigel, Ideals and Illusions: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1990s (Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1994), Introduction: “Breaking the Realist/Idealist Logjam,” pp. 1-7, and chapter 6: “Beyond Moralism and Realpolitik: Notes Toward Redefining ‘America’s Purpose’” (reader).
Robert Strausz-Hupe and Stefan Possony, International Relations (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950), chapter XVI: “Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy” (reader).
Wenceslas J. Wagner, “Justice For All: Polish Democracy in the Renaissance Period in Historical Perspective,” in The Polish Renaissance in Its European Context (Bloomington and Indianopolis, IN: Indiana University Press, Indiana University Polish Studies Center and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, A Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America Book, 1988) (reader).
Ewa Thompson, Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2000), 15-52 (reader).
“Nechayev’s Cathechism or Catechism of a Revolutionary of 1869,” The Class Struggle: A Historical Journal, [Leningrad] no. 1-2 (1924) (reader).
The Travels of Marco Polo (London: Penguin Books, 1958), 70-73 (reader)
Strausz-Hupe and Possony, chapter VII: “The Foreign Policy of Nations” (reader).
Charles Burton Marshal, “The Limits of Foreign Policy” in The Limits of Foreign Policy (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1954) (reader).
Ralph Clem and Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, “Poland Divided: Spatial Differences in the June 2003 EU Accession Referendum,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, vol. 45, no. 7 (2004): 465-480 (reader).
Robert Kagan, “American Power: A Guide for the Perplexed,” Commentary (April 1996) (reader).
Weigel, “The Responsible Superpower,” Ideals and Illusions (reader).
H.J. Mackinder, “The Geographical Pivot of History,” The Geographical Journal, no. 4, vol. 23 (April 1904): 421-37 (also in T,D,R, Geopolitics Reader, 27-33) (reader).
Reynolds B. Peele, “The Importance of Maritime Chokepoints,” Parameters (Summer 1997): 61-74 (reader).
Harvey Sicherman, “The Revival of Geopolitics,” The Intercollegiate Review (Spring 2002): 16-23 (reader).
Mackubin Thomas Owens, “In Defense of Classical Geopolitics,” a Naval War College paper (reader).
Adam Garfinkle, “Geopolitics: Middle Eastern Notes and Anticipations,” Orbis (Spring 2003): 263-76.
Aristotle, “The Relation of War and Peace,” in Cox (reader).
Strausz-Hupe and Possony, chapter II: “Diplomacy: The Functions of Diplomats,” chapter XXII: “The Second World War,” and chapter XXVII: “Peace Enforcement: The Prevention of War” (reader).
Joseph Douglass, Jr., Why the Soviets Violate Arms Control Treaties (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 1988), chapter 4: “Arms Control in Soviet Strategy” and chapter 6: “Cheating and Deception” (reader).
Robert J. Art, “The Four Functions of Force,” Thomas Schelling, “The Diplomacy of Violence,” and Robert Jervis,” The Utility of Nuclear Deterence,” in Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics (New York: Longman, 2000) (reader).
Arnold Wolfers, Discord and Collaboration (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962), chapters 2, 13, and 14 (reader).
Strausz-Hupe and Possony, chapter X: “Adaptation and Compromise,” and chapter XXVI: “Peace Enforcement” (reader).
Frederick H. Hartmann, The Relations of Nations (New York: Macmillan, 1978), chapter 11: “Case Studies in the Settlement of Disputes,” and chapter 12, “International Organization: Settling Disputes” (reader).
Stanley Hoffman, “The Uses and Limits of International Law,” in Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics (New York: Longman, 2000) (reader).
Frederick H. Hartmann, The Relations of Nations (New York: Macmillan, 1978), chapter 6: “International Law,” and chapter 9: “International Organization” (reader).
Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), chapter 1: “The New World Order,” and chapter 31, “The New World Order Reconsidered” (reader).
Kenneth N. Waltz, “The Anarchic Structure of World Politics,” in Art and Jervis (reader).
Michael Howard, Studies in War and Peace (New York: Viking, 1970), chapter 12: “Military Power and International Order.” (reader).
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, “An Environmental Battleground: Eco-Politics in Poland,” in O.P. Dwivedi and Joseph G. Jabbra (eds.), Managing the Environment: An East European Perspective (Ontario: de Sitter Publications, 1995), 64-90 (reader).
Kent Hughes Butts, “The Strategic Importance of Water,” Parameters (Spring 1997): 65-83 (reader).
John Gillingham, European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), xi-xviii, 3-33, 487-502 (reader).
David A. Baldwin, Economic Statecraft (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985), chapters 2 through 4 (reader).
Strausz-Hupe and Possony, chapter 19: “Economics as a Weapon” (reader).
James Oberg, Toward A Theory of Space Power: Defining Principles for U.S. Space Policy (Washington, DC: The George Marshall Institute, 2003) (reader).
Gregory J. Rattray, Strategic Warfare in Cyberspace (Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, 2001), 1-6, 7-15, 461-95 (reader).
Wayne Michael Hall, Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003), vi-xiv, 198-208 (reader).
Strausz-Hupe and Possony, chapter XIII: “Propaganda,” and chapter XIV: “Political Warfare” (reader).
Morgenthau, chapter 7: “The Ideological Element in International Policies” (reader).
Carnes Lord, “Public Diplomacy: Past and Future,” Orbis (Winter 1998) (reader).
John Lenczowski, “Themes of Soviet Strategic Deception and Disinformation,” in Brian Dailey and Patrick Parker, eds., Soviet Strategic Deception (Lexington, MA, and Stanford, CA: Lexington Books and Hoover Institution Press, 1987).
Abraham Shulsky, Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 1993), chapter 1: “What is Intelligence,” chapter 2, “Spies, Machines and Libraries: Collecting the Data,” chapter 3: “What Does it All Mean, Intelligence Analysis and Production,” and chapter 4: “Working Behind the Scenes: Covert Action” (reader).
Williamson Murray et al, eds., The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), Introduction: “On Strategy,” chapter 1 (reader).
Norman A. Bailey and Carnes Lord, “On Strategic Economics,” Comparative Strategy, vol. 7 (1988) (reader).
Hans Morgenthau, “The Future of Diplomacy,” in Art and Jervis (reader)
Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership (New York, Basic Books, 2004), vii-ix, 1-40, 213-230 (reader)
Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric (London: Penguin Classics, 1991).
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).
St. Augustine, Civitas Dei: The City of God (New York: Image Books, Doubleday, 1958).
St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1988).
Sun Tzu, The Art of War (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003).
Kautilya, The Arthasashastra (London: Penguin Books, 1992).
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings (Boston and London: Shambhala, 1994).
Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (Washington, DC: Elibron Classics, 2005).
Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1997).
Carnes Lord, The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now (New Haven, CT., and London: Yale University Press, 2003).
Colin S. Gray and Geoffrey Sloan, eds., Geopolitics, Geography and Strategy (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999).
Robert Strausz-Hupe and Stefan Possony, International Relations (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950).
Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics (New York: Longman, 2000).
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973).
Frederick H. Hartmann, The Relations of Nations (New York: Macmillan, 1978).
Richard H. Cox, ed., The State in International Relations (San Francisco: Chandler, 1965).
Arnold Wolfers, Discord and Collaboration (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962).
Michael Howard, Studies in War and Peace (New York: Viking, 1970).
Klaus Knorr, ed., Historical Dimensions of National Security Problems (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1976).
Richard Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant (New York: Oxford University press, 1999).
Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).
Geir Lundestad, ed., The Fall of Great Powers: Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy (Oslo and New York: Scandinavian University Press and Oxford University Press, 1994).
John Keegan, A History of Warfare (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994)
Peter Padfield, Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World (Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 1999).
Harold A. Winters et al., Battling the Elements: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).
Douglas Johnston and Cynthia Sampson, Religion: the Missing Dimension of Statecraft (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
George Weigel, Ideals and Illusions: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1990s (Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1994).
Joseph Douglass, Jr., Why the Soviets Violate Arms Control Treaties (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 1988).
David Forgacs, ed., The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings, 1916-1935 (New York: New York University Press, 2000).
Stephane Courtois et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Norman M. Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century Europe (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002).
Martin Meredith, The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of Fifty Years of Independence (New York: PublicAffairs, 2005).
Jacques Maritain, Man and the State (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1951).
Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order (Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1991).
T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards The Definition of Culture (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1949).
Christopher Dawson, Religion and the Rise of Western Culture (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
William F. Buckley, Jr., and Charles R. Kesler, Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (New York: Harper and Row, 1988).
Erik von Kuehnelt Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1991).
Stanley Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995).
Philip M. Taylor, Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003).
J. Michael Waller, Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War (Washington, DC: Institute of World Politics Press, 2007).
Juliana Geran Pilon, Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007).
Paul A. Smith, Jr., On Political War (Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1989).
Edward Jay Epstein, Deception (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989).
Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (New York: Knopf, 1966).
Anatoly Golitsyn, New Lies for Old: The Communist Strategy of Deception and Disinformation (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1984).
Ewa Thompson, Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2000).
Nicholas Cull, David Cuthbert, and David Welch, Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2003).
Harold D. Lasswell, Daniel Lerner, and Hans Speier, eds., Propaganda and Communication in World History, vol. 1: The Symbolic Instrument in Early Times (Honolulu, HI: East-West Center, University Press of Hawaii, 1979).
Peter de Mendelssohn, Japan’s Political Warfare (London: George Allen Unwin, 1944).
Steven W. Mosher, China Misperceived: American Illusion and Chinese Reality (New York: New Republic Books, 1990).
Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro, The Coming Conflict with China (New York: Knopf, 1997).
Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2007).
John Gillingham, European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
James Oberg, Toward A Theory of Space Power: Defining Principles for U.S. Space Policy (Washington, DC: The George Marshall Institute, 2003).
Gregory J. Rattray, Strategic Warfare in Cyberspace (Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, 2001).
Wayne Michael Hall, Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003).
David A. Baldwin, Economic Statecraft (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).
David Cortright, Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some Are So Poor (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999).
John B. Taylor, Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008).
Cynthia J. Arnson and I. William Zartman, eds., Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed (Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC: The Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005).
Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987).
Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1979).
Wilhelm Roepke, A Humane Economy (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1962).
Abraham D. Sofaer and Seymour E. Goodman, The Transnational Dimension of Cyber Crime and Terrorism (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2001).
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, eds., Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (Santa Monica, CA, and Washington, DC: RAND Corporation, 2001).
Anthony James Joes, Urban Guerrilla Warfare (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007).
R.R. Palmer, ed., Atlas of World History (New York, Chicago, and San Francisco: Rand McNally & Company, 1975).
O.P. Dwivedi and Joseph G. Jabbra (eds.), Managing the Environment: An East European Perspective (Ontario: de Sitter Publications, 1995).
Uri Ra’anan and Charles M. Perry, eds., Strategic Minerals and International Security (Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1985).
The Gita does not encourage inertia, indifference or slothfulness. It recommends action (Karma) as a Yoga (divine communion), as an activity in tune with the Divine Will, directed to the promotion of one’s spiritual consummation. Karma has to be an act of fulfilment, of adoration and of one’s duty to oneself and others. Gita marks out the steps and the path towards the realisation of this goal. It accepts all attitudes as valuable and sublimates each one into a spiritual effort (sadhana). It is a wish-fulfiling tree (Kalpa-Vriksha), which bestows boons to aspirants of all levels of commitment. It is an ocean of spiritual wisdom from which each one can bring away as much as the vessel that one carries can hold. The rational seeker, the action-oriented-aspirant and the devotional aspirant – all get equal attention and care from the Lord. In fact, the Gita infuses into every act of daily life the sublimity of Vedanta, and the immanence and transcendence of the Divine Principle.
- Sathya Sai Baba – Divine Discourse, September 10, 1984 / Daily Email, Sai Inspires: Subscription