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	<title>Opposed Systems Design</title>
	<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com</link>
	<description>Strategy, Systems Thinking and Military Affairs.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Iranian nuke warhead design</title>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/iranian-nuke-warhead-design/</link>
		<comments>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/iranian-nuke-warhead-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Iran</category>
	<category>Nuclear Forces</category>
		<guid>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/iranian-nuke-warhead-design/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The IAEA thinks that Iran has tested advanced nuclear warhead designs:
Iran has rejected most of the IAEA material on weaponisation as forgeries, but has admitted carrying out tests on multiple high-explosive detonations synchronised to within a microsecond. Tehran has told the agency that there is a civilian application for such tests, but has so far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PLAN looking for better ways to counter the pirates.</title>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/590/</link>
		<comments>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/590/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
	<category>China</category>
	<category>Navy</category>
	<category>Pirates</category>
		<guid>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/590/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	China starts trying to figure out how to manage piracy off Somalia:
	The prospect of each country being given responsibility for a certain area of ocean, instead of having navies take part in extensive joint patrols or follow their own ships, is being welcomed by the shipping industry.
	A chief captain with China Shipping Group surnamed Zhang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demand destruction.  Again.</title>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/demand-destruction-again/</link>
		<comments>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/demand-destruction-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Energy</category>
	<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/demand-destruction-again/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The IEA will reportedly substantial reduce its long-term forecast for global oil demand.  This on top of their previous forecast that all demand growth between 2008 and 2030 would come from non-OECD countries.
	
The Saudi Arabia of oil demand has decreased its consumption by over 6% from a year ago, dwarfing the growth in Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cubacle-wall posting material</title>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/cubacle-wall-posting-material/</link>
		<comments>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/cubacle-wall-posting-material/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Wohlstetter</category>
	<category>Operations Research</category>
		<guid>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/cubacle-wall-posting-material/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	A classic:
	The basic failure of the physical scientists and engineers in their turbulent history during the cold war is not their lack of prescience but their acting frequently as if they had it.
	-Albert Wohlstetter, &#8220;Scientists, Seers and Strategy,&#8221; Foreign Affairs, Vol. 41, No. 3(April 1963), pp. 466-478.
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		<title>The UN pull personnel from Afghansitan</title>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/the-un-pull-personnel-from-afghansitan/</link>
		<comments>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/the-un-pull-personnel-from-afghansitan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
	<category>4GW</category>
	<category>SysAdmin</category>
	<category>OEF</category>
		<guid>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/the-un-pull-personnel-from-afghansitan/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The UN pulls 600 staff out of Afghanistan after the Taliban attacked them.
&#8220;The United Nations is fully committed to helping all of Afghanistan&#8217;s people, as it has been for more than half a century,&#8221; the statement said.
If the UN his fully committed to helping the Afghan people, how many casualties is the UN willing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employment Treadmill</title>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/03/employment-treadmill/</link>
		<comments>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/03/employment-treadmill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
	<category>China</category>
		<guid>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/03/employment-treadmill/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	When your country is 1.3 billion people, it isn&#8217;t easy to create enough jobs to employ all the young adults who enter your workforce each year.  China has turned to the military to try to sop up some of this oversupply of labor.
	An estimated 6.1 million college graduates entered the job market this year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop goes the apocalypse</title>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/02/pop-goes-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/02/pop-goes-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
	<category>SysAdmin</category>
	<category>Reading</category>
	<category>Inside Baseball</category>
		<guid>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/02/pop-goes-the-apocalypse/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	A friend gave me a copy of Pop Apocalypse and I started reading it last night.  It reads like some of William Gibson&#8217;s more recent work, sprinkled with low-calorie shavings of Stephenson&#8217;s early work.  So far, it&#8217;s fun.
	For the national security geek crowd, it includes Leviathan-SysAdmin terminology.

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		<title>Arguing Against American Declinism</title>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/10/28/contre-american-declinism/</link>
		<comments>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/10/28/contre-american-declinism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Strategy</category>
	<category>Power Cycle Theory</category>
		<guid>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/10/28/contre-american-declinism/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Just read The Default Power in the latest Foreign Affairs.  It is a serviceable high-level summery of the history and recent writing on American decline.  
	While Joffe rightly criticizes declinists for simplistically extrapolating linear trends into the future, he doesn&#8217;t spend any time justifying why the advantages he focuses upon (ranging from martial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil-Military Relations</title>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/10/28/civil-military-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/10/28/civil-military-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
	<category>OEF</category>
	<category>Inside Baseball</category>
		<guid>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/10/28/civil-military-relations/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	A good LATimes article digging into how the Obama administration manages the Afghan war.  It breaks out of the standard bumper stickers and discusses some of the inside baseball of the administration&#8217;s relationship with DoD:
	&#8220;There is no division&#8221; between Obama and McChrystal, said a Defense official, one of several speaking on condition of anonymity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PLAN vs. Pirates, II</title>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/10/27/plan-vs-pirates-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/10/27/plan-vs-pirates-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
	<category>China</category>
	<category>Navy</category>
	<category>Pirates</category>
		<guid>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/10/27/plan-vs-pirates-ii/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Time has a good feature following up on the hijacked Chinese ship off the coast of Somalia.  Bottom line: now that the ship is anchored off the coast of Somalia, the military option has become much more difficult. 
	Also, the Time feature has some interesting quotes from Chinese internet discussion boards.  Hardly scientific, [...]]]></description>
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