Biography
HOW TO READ THIS BLOG
Arms and Influence has two types of posts, "official" and "incidental." I'm using this blog to outline at length the classic principles of military strategy, the preferred methods of guerrillas and terrorists, and the applicability of all this theoretical stuff to current events. You'll know an official post when you see the sub-headings THEORY and PRACTICE in the text. You can see the complete outline of the discussion so far in the left-hand column of the blog, under the heading CORE TOPIC.
Incidental posts, on the other hand, are things I write when I notice something interesting in the news. They're not as long as the official posts, and they always start with the heading, IN THE NEWS. On occasion, when I anticipate that I will cite the same incidental post frequently in later articles, I'll add a link to that "canonical" post to the EXPLODING MYTHS section.