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Having long admired their intellectual mission & work on strategy and statecraft, I'm thrilled to share that I will be moving down to Austin this summer and joining the @ClementsCenter as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.
Iskander Rehman
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Iskander Rehman
@IskanderRehman
Applied history, defense strategy & Asian security. Author "Planning for Protraction", "Iron Imperator." Non-Resident Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil
- Deeply sinister.
- Saddening and alarming to see a once-respected scholar shamelessly spouting Chinese state-sanctioned propaganda on Chinese state-affiliated media. What a complete and utter moral collapse."America🇺🇸 has functionally become a PLUTOCRACY, a government of the 1% by the 1% and for the 1%.” “China🇨🇳 has functionally become a MERITOCRACY, the society that picks the best brains in the society to run the society.” —— @mahbubani_k
00:00 - A few words on this much-discussed (but IMHO problematic) piece in FP. First of all, I share some of the author's frustration. Trotting out the same passages of Thucydides when commenting on Sino-US rivalry has become something of a tired trope, not (1/25
- First day. Thrilled to be part of the team @RANDCorporation
- Some exciting news--I will now be writing a regular applied history column for @WarOnTheRocks. Every six weeks, I'll be publishing a new essay on the history of strategy and warfare--always with an eye to applying insights to our troubled present. Thrilled about this partnership.
- Some professional news: later this month I will be joining @RANDCorporation as a Senior Political Scientist. Honored to join such a storied institution & looking forward to working alongside colleagues whose research on Asia, strategy & defense I have long followed & admired.
- Some personal news: from mid-July I will be taking on a new position as Senior Fellow for Strategic Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council @afpc, where I will be initiating a new research effort on applied history, grand strategy, & great power competition in Asia. (1/4)
- "Just because you plant your flag somewhere doesn't mean that territory changes hands," France's defense minister said in relation to China's "fait accompli politics" in the South China Sea" s.nikkei.com/2Fd6Jzy
- "It is vital that the younger generation of Chinese, who (..) have no experience of China's tumultuous past, are made aware of the mistakes China made as a result of hubris and excesses in ideology." Interesting to re-read this 2013 discussion with LKY.
- So immensely proud of my better half, *Dr.* Jennifer Mcardle @jlmcardle01 I’ve always envied Finland’s custom of giving swords to freshly minted PHDs & decided to follow our new NATO ally’s excellent tradition.
- For the curious, it looks like the table of contents of the new Makers of Modern Strategy is now visible online, along with @HalBrands ´s elegant introduction. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
- Coming later this fall—my Adelphi book on protracted warfare & Sino-US competition . Grateful to @Benjamin__Rhode @alice_aveson & the excellent folks at @IISS_org for their sterling editorial work, and to @KoriSchake , @AaronFriedberg & @Rory_Medcalf for their kind endorsements.
- A monument that has witnessed so much, meant so much, and survived so much. What a tragedy.
