defence intellectual

...only in America was the career of Edward Luttwak possible. The perpetually renewable reservoir of naivety at the highest levels of the US government has been good for business. - The Machiavelli of Maryland
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“Most defence intellectuals are three-fourths defence and one-fourth intellectual,” says Leon Wieseltier...
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“One suspects that, like Machiavelli himself, he enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive,” wrote Eric Hobsbawm.
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Luttwak spends much of his time at the computer. He follows the news closely and interprets it as an ongoing comedy.
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Look at Hillary. She is an empty carapace with ambition rattling inside. You can predict everything she does.

от себя добавлю: его рецензия в LRB, Sins of the Three Pashas - исключительно толковая. попадаются такие интересные выражения как non-transitive secularism, к примеру. и нужно подряд прочесть со слов But the way the tax was actually levied was savagely, destructively discriminatory. и далее со слов Pope Francis’s condemnation of the events of April 1915 was only the first of many in this centenary year. очень познавательная рецензия.