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		<title>The Need to Restore Strategic Solvency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	If you look past the breathless headline of this WaTimes article, there is an important point:
Defense budget writers have been held largely exempt from having to make long-term strategic decisions since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 because of a combination of political good will and the use of supplemental spending bills to pay for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/19/the-need-to-restore-strategic-solvency/</link>
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		<title>Fantastic Discussion of the RMB and $</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	An excellent post from naked capitalism:
Now even though China is correct in accusing the US of stoking a global carry trade, they are not exactly free of blame either. China’s past and continued currency pegs helped enable US reckless borrowing.
	&#8230;And low dollar interest rates pose a particular problem for China. Its dollar purchases had been, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/17/fantastic-discussion-of-the-rmb-and/</link>
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		<title>Investing in clear perceptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Tom Mahnken on the Chinese military:
If we are in danger of underestimating Chinese military power, China&#8217;s leaders are in danger of overestimating it.
	&#8230;The United States needs to do more to understand the Chinese military. The PLA intently studies the U.S. military; the U.S. military lacks a similar curiosity about them. That needs to change. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/16/investing-in-clear-perceptions/</link>
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		<title>Reductio ad absurdum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Bill Lind predictably argues that the Ft. Hood shootings represent 4GW on American soil.  His list of policy recommendations:
	The Establishment will attempt to label the massacre at Ft. Hood an “isolated incident.” On the contrary, it is just a foretaste of many more such actions to come. How might states reverse that trend? Three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/10/here-comes-crazy/</link>
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		<title>Nascent Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Earth Cools, and Fight Over Warming Heats Up:
The researchers behind those studies strenuously reject that description. But they disagree among themselves on how long the cooling will last. The British paper says warming will resume as early as this year. The German paper says warming won&#8217;t resume for perhaps a decade.
	Such disagreements aren&#8217;t unusual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/10/593/</link>
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		<title>Barnett on demand destruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Barnett notes the same WSJ piece I cited last week.
	One nit to pick with his post, though.  Ex post facto, demand equals production, so the global demand peak is equal to the global oil peak.  What &#8220;global oil demand will peak before global oil production&#8221; really means that Barnett predicts that oil runs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/10/barnett-on-demand-destruction/</link>
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		<title>Iranian nuke warhead design</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/iranian-nuke-warhead-design/</link>
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		<title>PLAN looking for better ways to counter the pirates.</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/590/</link>
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		<title>Demand destruction.  Again.</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/demand-destruction-again/</link>
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		<title>Cubacle-wall posting material</title>
		<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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		<link>http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/cubacle-wall-posting-material/</link>
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