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		<title>The car and the telephone allowed for the bureaucratization of coercion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The car and the telephone, Kulak argues, allowed for the bureaucratization of coercion: If you look at the orders given to British Captains and Admirals during the Napoleonic wars, these orders were often shockingly cursory. Sometimes only 1-2 sentences would be the whole of the Admiralty’s direction to a ship’s Captain for months at a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>None of the people with power have a gangster or KGB agent’s stoic familiarity with death and danger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kulak notes that western powers are playing with fire when they use assassination against non-western powers: On August 20, 2022, 29 year old Daria Dugina was killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow. The bomb, it was widely agreed, had been intended for her father the famed/infamous Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin ( [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Runaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have zero recollection of the movie Runaway coming out in 1984 — and, more tellingly, no recollection of it playing on cable or coming up in conversation after that. At some point in this last decade, it came up somehow, as a bit of a punchline, because it features Gene Simmons — yes, Gene [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine understands Russia in ways that Western services never fully can</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/06/ukraine-understands-russia-in-ways-that-western-services-never-fully-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia&#8217;s seizure of Crimea in 2014 exposed deep weaknesses inside Ukraine&#8217;s security services, including the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU): In 2015, the CIA helped support the creation of the SBU’s Fifth Directorate, a specialized unit that combined counterintelligence and special operations. According to reporting by The New Yorker, the unit developed networks of agents [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>User error, it turned out, was actually designer error</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/06/user-error-it-turned-out-was-actually-designer-error/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Vietnam, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), the Army moved from Nylon flak vests to Kevlar, then added rifle-proof ceramic plates, and then added extra protection against “frag” for the neck, groin, shoulders, etc.: When a vehicle rolled over, or caught fire, or went underwater, soldiers were unable to move quickly enough to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The device was designed to make an injured soldier more self-sufficient</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s new Intrepid Battlefield EXoskeleton (IBEX) is a shoulder-to-foot brace that allows injured troops to stand, walk, and shoot when evacuation is impossible or delayed: The device was designed to make an injured soldier more self-sufficient, so they can move themselves to safety instead of relying on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy’s mission is now to establish sea control where possible and sea denial where required</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/the-navys-mission-is-now-to-establish-sea-control-where-possible-and-sea-denial-where-required/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The era of the Transoceanic Navy, focused on power projection from uncontested seas, is over, Commander Jeff Vandenengel argues, and the era of the Panoceanic Navy, focused on sea control and sea denial, has begun: In the Continental Phase, from the nation’s founding until the 1890s, the United States fought for North American dominance. Because [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/in-new-york-social-circles-he-was-known-as-the-jewish-james-bond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Spy looks at 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who passed away last year: In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”: a refugee from Nazi Germany whose gratitude to his American hosts was such that he volunteered to join the US army and became the CIA’s first station [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Most aircraft losses happen not in the air but on the ground</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/most-aircraft-losses-happen-not-in-the-air-but-on-the-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wargame after wargame exploring a Taiwan scenario has reached the same conclusion: Most aircraft losses happen not in the air but on the ground. Airbases across the Western Pacific sit within range of PLA missiles. Active air and missile defenses at forward bases cannot reliably defeat salvos at the scales China can generate, and passive [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Pacific War</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/the-great-pacific-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing apart from fiction, with its checkered history, Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations explains, are forecasts, which omit the conversations and streams of consciousness of a novel’s cast of characters: The best is Hector C. Bywater’s The Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931–1933. Bywater was a journalist and military commentator [&#8230;]]]></description>
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