Via Kathryn Cramer, a paper on the real reason America invaded Iraq.
It may be argued that the Bush administration and the Hussein Regime are both in a race against time to gain access and control of the Stargate in the ruins of Uruk or some other location in Iraq, before the prophesied return of the Anunnaki.
What’s sad is that it looks as though the paper’s author used to be a serious academic once upon a time. Or at least as serious as a conflict resolution specialist can get; conflict resolution is not a field of scholarship that’s associated with profound theoretical insights. Unless it’s just a cruel hoax (by no means impossible). Anyways, the basic idea would make for a great Tim Powers novel.
Update: And while we’re on the subject of occult history and conspiracy theories, Charlie Stross reveals today that the British inventor of blitzkrieg
Posted by Henry at June 25, 2003 12:12 PM | TrackBackwas also an acolyte of Aleister Crowley before the war, an initiate of the Argentum Astrum, and left behind in his papers the incomplete manuscript of a novel titled “The Hidden Wisdom of the Illuminati”.
J. F. C. Fuller the inventor of Blitzkrieg? Poor Colonel-General
Guderian must be turning in his grave.
The origin of the term itself is unclear. Macksey (“Guderian”)
credits it to Hitler in 1936, Addington (“The Blitzkrieg Era &
the German General Staff, 1865-1941”) cites first use as in Time,
25th Sept. 1939; and Liddell Hart (“Memoirs”) claims he invented
it — but then he claimed a lot of things.
But if what we mean is to what the term refers, the new form of
attack shown most clearly in France in 1940, then the rights belong
principally to Guderian.
A mild demurrer to the notion that conflict resolution is a field without deep theoretical insights.
Nash recently got his Nobel for one of them, and Allaire might be up for one for roughly the same reason one of these days.
Meself, I’m pushing Anatol Rapoport for the Nobel Peace Prize: I think his “Debates, Games and Conflicts” is the book that got the world through those dicey atom bomb years. Everybody read it, and it made it possible for generals, in Russia as on our side, to think about giving peace a chance.
Side note; I see that Jerman Gvishiani just passed on. As one of the founders of the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna, he was one of the people most effective in keeping the cold war cold. E.g. they invented the White House-Kremlin hot-line, for defusing misunderstandings.
Yes, but I think we’re talking about different things. Nash was a mathematician (and in any event, got his Nobel for the Nash equilibrium concept, rather than the Nash bargaining solution). And Rapoport, Schelling and the like have written classics that may have been used by conflict resolution types - but they actually have rather little to do with the “profession” of conflict resolution as it has emerged. Which seems imho to be rather wuffly and imprecise stuff. Am glad to be corrected if I’m wrong though …
Posted by: Henry at June 27, 2003 11:05 AMBlitzkreig was invented by Genghis Khan. (But he didn’t brand-name it.) The Nazis admitted it. Eurocentrism!
Posted by: zizka at June 27, 2003 11:01 PM