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Shashank Joshi
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Love this bit from @James_Barr's Lords of the Desert. '... "I was not really interested in locusts", Thesiger later admitted.'
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I wonder if modifications to public broadcasts or press are still used as a form of proof of authority. Simple but effective & secure:
Selwyn Lloyd on being made foreign secretary: "I have never visited any foreign country ... Ido not like foreigners"
Churchill: "these all seem to me to be positive advantages".
Top advice from the sultan of Muscat here. "You must know, Colonel Smiley, that all revolutions in the Arab world are led by colonels. That is why I employ you. I am having no Arab colonels in my army"
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This week's briefing in The Economist is my piece on autonomous weapons. economist.com/briefing/2019/… A thread below on some of the writing & research that I found most useful in learning about the subject.
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