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		<title>What the Italian teachers wanted was no violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2022 14:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Luttwak is an enfant terrible at 79, David Samuels says: David Samuels: Edward, you are a Washington fixture, surrounded by a flourishing mythology that suggests among other things that you are a Romanian vampire who was raised by the Mafia. So let’s get it straight. Edward Luttwak: I was brought up by parents who, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In Kyiv, exactly the same thing happened, but in reverse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 17:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the old days, Edward Luttwak notes, a CIA officer appointed to serve in a foreign country whose language he did not know would apply himself furiously to learn as much of it as possible: But now, very few CIA officers speak any foreign language. Their superiors do not demand that they learn them, and they [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>China also lives in a G7 world</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But by the second day of the Ukraine war, Beijing realised that China also lives in a G7 world, Edward Luttwak notes, with its economy utterly dependent on the daily arrival of bulk carriers loaded with animal and human food: China’s economy was self-sufficient if miserably poor in 1976 when I first visited, with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The infantry is once again the queen of the battlefield</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current war in Ukraine is causing no end of trouble for the staff officers and civil servants working on next year’s budgets, Edward Luttwak remarks: The infantry is once again the queen of the battlefield, empowered as it is by anti-tank missiles that pursue armoured vehicles until they destroy them, and by portable anti-aircraft [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Russians assessed Nato as weak because it was weak</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/04/the-russians-assessed-nato-as-weak-because-it-was-weak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 21:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[War is the domain of paradox, contradiction, and boundless surprise, Edward Luttwak likes to say: For the “post-Pacifist” German mainstream, the most bitter paradox of all is that the Russians might not have attacked Ukraine had they foreseen Germany’s response: that the Bundestag would cancel the new Russian gas pipeline, invest in regasification terminals, send [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan was the world’s only really different country</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/10/japan-was-the-worlds-only-really-different-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One can fly to Japan from anywhere, Edward Luttwak says, but from Japan one can only fly to the Third World: [I]t hardly matters whether one lands in Kinshasa, London, New York or Zurich: they are all places where one must be constantly watchful and distrustful, where one cannot leave a suitcase unattended even for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran is dirt poor</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2018/01/iran-is-dirt-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2018 21:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran is dirt poor, Edward Luttwak reminds us: I recently saw Iran’s general poverty at first-hand driving through one of Iran’s supposedly more prosperous rural districts. In an improvised small market next to a truck stop, several grown men were selling livestock side by side, namely ducks. Each had a stock of three or four ducks, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The easy and reliable way of defeating all insurgencies everywhere</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2017/07/the-easy-and-reliable-way-of-defeating-all-insurgencies-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2017 11:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Luttwak explains the easy and reliable way of defeating all insurgencies everywhere: Perfectly ordinary regular armed forces, with no counterinsurgency doctrine or training whatever, have in the past regularly defeated insurgents, by using a number of well-proven methods. It is enough to consider these methods to see why the armed forces of the United [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Machiavelli of Maryland</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2015/12/the-machiavelli-of-maryland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2015 12:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People contact Edward Luttwak with unusual requests: The prime minister of Kazakhstan wants to find a way to remove ethnic Russians from a city on his northern border; a major Asian government wants a plan to train its new intelligence services; an Italian chemical company wants help settling an asbestos lawsuit with a local commune; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Bring Powerful Foreigners into a Tributary Relationship</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2014/08/how-to-bring-powerful-foreigners-into-a-tributary-relationship/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2014/08/how-to-bring-powerful-foreigners-into-a-tributary-relationship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is peculiar to China’s political culture, and of very great contemporary relevance, Edward Luttwak notes, is its doctrine on how to bring powerful foreigners into a tributary relationship: Formidable mounted archers and capable of sustained campaigning (a primary objective of the Steppe State), the Xiongnú ravaged and savaged and extorted tribute from the perpetually [&#8230;]]]></description>
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