One Last Exchange of Letters in Significance with Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Significance Magazine is now hosting its final-exchange-of-letters on the future of war.  Once again, it is Steven Pinker and I dueling with Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Pasquale Cirillo.  You can judge for yourselves whether the four of us have hit a common groove. If you feel sad because you have not followed all the twists and turns of …

The History of Casualty Recording and the Launch of Every Casualty’s Standards for the Field

On Thursday night I was at the London launch (following an earlier one in Geneva) of new standards for the field of casualty recording. Every Casualty (for which I'm a Board member) and its Casualty Recorders  Network spent years preparing for this moment and it was worth the wait. Here are the slides from my presentation. I …

Economics of Warfare – Lecture 10

Here is lecture 10 which is the last one before the New Year.