Nick Prime

I did a podcast on JC Wylie and the virtues of his theory of strategy as control, you should listen!

Given how bizarre everything is right now around UNC Football, how about this: 57 photos by Getty Images of the Clemson-UNC game and 23 are of Jordon Hudson

@jackmcd83 @GCREAIM But even in doing what I describe Wylie's theories are, I would argue as close as it gets to a "realist" (in the Waltz/Morganthau-ian sense) theory of strategy as there can or has this far been, assuming such a thing could be exist.

@jackmcd83 @GCREAIM And he talks sparingly about coalitions. But he does so neither substantially, nor in conjunction with the earlier plea to bring voices from outside the uniformed military into the fold.

@jackmcd83 @GCREAIM The best I can hazard is Wylie's emphasis inclusion of non-military actors in the ideal context of strategy formation. I.e. he argues strongly that legislators, leaders of industry, and actors across what we would call the "DIME" spectrum should have voice in strategy development

I hated listening to Jackson, dude was like an AI trained purely on Coach-speak. Van Gundy was awesome and his criticism of the refs was what made him great. Breen Van Gundy and Doris wwouldve been amazing trio.

The Pentagon just stood up a “munitions war room” given the US armed forces’ shallow magazine depth across the portfolio of missiles, bombs, rockets, ammo, artillery & mines. The American defense industrial base revival — and expansion — is just getting started. Private capital is pouring in, nascent companies are forming, and brand new factories and facilities are opening to help rebuild the arsenal of democracy.

Ohhhh hell yes.

Man @jackmcd83 and I saw this coming when we watched @POIFans #personofinterest don't come at us with this Mission Impossible BS. instagram.com/reel/DKc7nnpx6…

Also this Knicks team is not likeable. This is a team that wants to play football on defense and be defended like they're made of glass. Brunson is as bad a foul grifter as James Harden. Will root for whoever goes up against this Knicks team if they beat the Cs

There goes the game. And probably the season.

I love Derrick White but he doesn't have the strength or the length to guard Brunson. Put Jrue on him or just put Tatum on him. Tatum has the length to guard him in space.

The White/Pritchard backcourt is not a good pairing. Should be the Jrue/Pritchard backcourt.

This referring is bullshit. Knicks want a tight whistle while also wanting to be able to run through a screen like the screener is a blocking sled.

How do we balance "promote" with "protect" in US-PRC technology competition? A few thoughts spurred by today's forward-looking piece in @TheNatlInterest from @DeweyAM (@CSETGeorgetown's Executive Director) and Bill Hannas (CSET's most senior China Analyst). Link below Their argument challenges the U.S. strategy for US-PRC technology competition as overly reactive, that it "treats symptoms...[instead of] underlying causes." Are we too focused on the "protect" tools available to us? They are easier for the executive branch to operationalize quickly. A lot of the "promote" side requires appropriation from the legislature. That's one advantage of China's system -- Beijing can operationalize promote and protect tools quickly. But the US can't stay ahead by ramping up "protect"! Especially because the "protect" tools tend to come with greater risks than the "promote" tools. Every policy tool involves trade-offs. To rightsize the China challenge, policymakers have to carefully balance the opportunities and risks of each. For example, a few relevant economic security "protect" tools to illustrate the point: Semiconductor export controls Opportunity: Cut PRC access to compute Risk: Spur domestic innovation in PRC chipmaking sector Research security Opportunity: Limit IP theft and tech transfer in critical technologies Risk: Stifle scientific openness and hinder US domestic STEM talent Inbound and outbound investment restrictions Opportunity: prevent PRC from benefitting from US assets (capital, talent, technology) Risk: disrupt the free flow of global capital For a few of these tools, I worry we over-index the opportunities from the use of these tools, and discount the risks. On research security, for example, proposals in Congress to ban Chinese student visas greatly undersell the risks that policy poses to the US innovation ecosystem; I haven't seen any evidence to indicate that the instances of PRC IP theft are systemic enough to outweigh the huge benefits to US science from China ➡️ US brain gain. Gutting NSF/NIH/R&D funding and staff is another example of a policy with significant potential downside to US innovation advantages. On the other hand, stronger outbound investment screening measures, for example, might be worth the downside risk. I could go on, but you get the idea. Balancing risks and opportunities is critical, especially as the White House and @mkratsios47 continues to set its strategy for sustained tech competition with China.

New research discusses four broad classes of scenarios that could lead to open-ended warfighting between the U.S. and China: bit.ly/43e0xWs

@infantrydort You keep using that word bureaucracy. It's as if you think warfighting with divisions and corps as units of action = bureaucracy. Or worse that you think those wars would be fought well if all the officers in them couldn't think above the btn level.

4/ But there's a big problem—SAMS is creating a bureaucracy-first, warfighting-second culture. The Army now prioritizes complex planning over decisive action, and SAMS grads play a huge role in this shift.

🚨 SAMS: Has it Helped or Hurt the Army? 🚨 SAMS graduates returning to battalion level are like master chess players dropped into a street fight. They’re so busy calculating fifteen moves ahead that they forget to throw a punch when it matters. We have to ask the questions👇

Bruins trading Brad Marchand is another reminder that I just can't bring myself to I vest in the Bruins anymore. Favorite Bruin since Bourque.

When did @Adobe kill Fill & Sign? They did whole commercials for that app. Wtf.

I love these "one of these things is not like the other" headlines.