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The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Weapons that employ microchips have tended to shift the balance of power toward the defense, making decisive aggression less profitable and therefore less likely. Smart weapons, like Stinger missiles, for example, effectively neutralize much of the advantage that large, wealthy states formerly enjoyed in deploying expensive air power to attack poor
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
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Until well into the seventeenth century, the Ottoman sultans balanced their dependence on the political and military service of the Turkish aristocracy by recruiting a slave army of Muslim converts (perhaps seven or eight thousand a year) separated in childhood from their Christian parents. Devshirme recruitment obliterated the ties of kinship and
... See moreJohn Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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