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Monday, May 23, 2011
This page summarizes the Special Reports available on this site. Like everything else here it's constantly and it certainly could be better organized, but it ought to be useful, and it will have to do.
Some of the older reports are not in the standard format I hit on later. They're all and every one worth reading. More will be added as time goes on.
There is an older summary of some of these reports that includes some I have not got in here YET, but this will be the one I keep up. It is worth a look. But do have a look at what's here. Some may surprise you.
Royal Marine Commandant's speech on warfare May 12, 2011
My thoughts on UFO's: my preface to Carl Pflock's book on Roswell.
An Adventure in 2000: a story of an adventure on American Airlines in the days before 9/11
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy
Mercenaries and Military Virtue is an essay written for the 1983 anthology THERE WILL BE WAR
Report on Global Cooling, July 1, 2008 (needs updating)
There are TRIP REPORTS from Paris and Rome and an informed if bitter view of the EPCOT center. (Why I am bitter is part of that report). There is a report on my Death Valley Adventure (in which I rolled my Bronco and had to walk 28 miles to the nearest paved road. With pictures.)
I also put in notable reports from the Foreign Policy Research Institute
See also the REVIEWS summary page, and the COLUMNS summary.
For a SUMMARY PAGE of CHAOS MANOR REPORTS including my Death Valley Adventures:
The Day of the Tyrant, an essay first written in 1983.
Hamas and Israel: Jerry Pournelle and Joel Rosenberg, another dialogue.
Is Israel Finished? Jerry Pournelle and Joel Rosenberg, a dialogue
Jerry Pournelle on Growing Up Smart
Francis Hamit on electronic publishing
Frank Forman Cochlear Cyborg (Living with a Cochlear Implant) February 2007
Notes from a Survival Sage: a column from Survive Magazine for March 1983
Report from Korea (One Foot Inside North Korea)
Joanne Dow Diatribes on Women and the Muslim World
Sample Chapters from Mamelukes
A new debate on Iraq, October 2006
EXAMPLES from the California Sixth Grade Reader of 1916
The Bravery of Regulus (example of supplementary reading materials)
An Exchange of Views about Lebanon: Jerry Pournelle and Joel Rosenberg
Russell Seitz on Explosives and Security
The 2006 Stanford Singularity Summit: Pictures and conference report.
Barry McCaffrey Reports from Iraq
Letters From Iraq: Letters from a serving officer in IRAQ
Republic and Empire Page One and Page Two
- April 2006 Report from Iraq
- Future of American Strategy (FPRI) February 2006
- Getting to Space
- Rotary Rocket rollout
- Ivan Skavinsky Skivar
- Leadership quotes
- File Manager Utilities
- G. K. Chesterton on Love and Marriage Vows
- Space Access Society Reports
- Intellectual Capital : my former
Intellectual Capital columns; some are pretty good, and a few
downright prophetic.
- Part One (January - June, 1998)
- Part Two (July -
December, 1998)
- Part Three (January - December, 1999)
- Iraq Diplomacy: FPRI report on diplomatic efforts before the war
OVERCLOCKING by Gregory Cochran:
Ashkenazi, disorders, and intelligence
- J Neil Schulman on Moral Ambiguity and Libertarianism
- Jim Bludso and the Night of the Prairie Belle: A poem about a hero
- Infantry in the modern world:
observations and a discussion
- Resumed June 2003
- Palestine 2002 (FPRI)
- Lucifer's Hammer (2002 NT7 )
- Never Bring a Box Cutter to a Jihad (by a senior serving officer)
- The Unholy Lands by J. Neil Schulman
- The Ideological War in the West
- Robert Mugabe's State of Disaster May 2002
- Israel and the Middle East, April 2002
- USAF Policy March, 2002
- A Tale Of Two Submarines: why government projects cost s0 much
- Plucking the Yew and why.
- The Flame To End All Flames
- The Kursk Affair
- Nigerian and other scams
- Here Come the Intelligent and Feeling Machines (Dr. David Goodman)
- America and the New World (FPRI)
- The Middle East Crisis (FPRI)
- Republic and Empire
- Lessons of the Twentieth Century
- Infantry in the modern world: A discussion
- Questions and answers on SDI by Trent Telenko
- The New Germ Theory by Greg Cochran
- WHO WERE WE IN VIETNAM (FPRI Report)
- DYSLEXIA and ADD: disquisitions by Jerry Pournelle
- Why Captains Quit: Why USAF is losing pilot officers.
- Health and the Internet: How I offended a wizard, by Jessica Mulligan
- Fatal Mail: people I get mail bounced from
- The Old Issue:A Kipling Poem that seems appropriate for the times
- Negative Gravity Cosmological marvels
- THE NEXT CENTURY IN SPACE FLIGHT by Jess Sponable (program manager of DC/X)
- Nitrites and Explosives by Russell Seitz
STAR OFFICE: early report by Joel Rosenberg
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
- Intellectual Capital : my former
Intellectual Capital columns; some are pretty good, and a few
downright prophetic.
- Part One (January -
June, 1998)
- Fast Cheap and out of Control: January 1998
- Moore's Law Revisited: Some Implications January 1998
- The Empire Strikes Back (Microsoft and the future) February 1998
- Breaking Things and Killing People: The Great Anthrax Charade March 1998; Constitutional rights in "time of war."
- Looking Ahead: The Asteroid Scare and what to do. March 1998
- Looking Ahead (HDTV) (April 1998)
- Looking Ahead: The REAL IBM / Microsoft story (May, 1998)
- The Department of Justice and Microsoft (May, 1998)
- Part Two (July -
December, 1998)
- Doomsday? Not Just Yet (June 1998)
- Just what is the business of America (on the verge of the Balkan experiment) (July 1998)
- The Y2K Coming Disaster: Don't Panic (July, 1998)
- The Y2K Disaster: What do do. August 1998
- Snoops, Phone Taps, Encryption, and Security (September 1998)
- Changing the Rules: the World turned weird, and the Rule of Law (October 1998)
- Unrecoverable Attitudes: On Foreign Policy (November 1998)
- Operation Impeachment Storm (Desert Fox): Strengthening the Presidency. (December 1998)
- Part Three (January -
June, 1999)
- Science Policy and Al Gore (January 1999)
- Some Implications of the Digital Revolution: Bits is bits. Live with it.
- Vulnerabilities in the Digital Age; Viruses, Trojans, and Worms, Oh My!
- Sowing the wind: thoughts on the implications of the Littleton, Colorado murders.
- The Great Equalizer: Moore's Law And it's all just beginning.
- Kossovo and the cost of Victory (June 1999)
- Part One (January -
June, 1998)
- Networking Linux in a Family System
- Moshe Bar's Opinion
- In SIX parts. Updated 20 May 1999
- David Em on Graphics (Starting a graphics studio)
- Siggraph 98
Peter N. Glaskowsky [png@ideaphile.com]
- Meltdown
- Casio Cassiopeia
- Workstation Rant (with some replies).
- Configurable Computers
Russell Kay russkay@charter.net
- PC EXPO 1998
- PARTITION WOES
- VBRUN 200, IE 5, and other interfering annoyances
David Mitchell david42@home.com
Alexander Pournelle alexp@earthlink.net
- On Making Movies
- Discussion of Digital Video (many contributors)
- Alex's Page: Word weirdness
- NT and Level Two Cache: fear not, you probably don't need to do anything.
Jerry Pournelle (Includes some discussions and debates)
- Mercenaries and Military Virtue, an essay written in 1982
- The Day of the Tyrant, an essay written in 1983
- Is Israel Finished? Jerry Pournelle and Joel Rosenberg, a dialogue
- The 2006 Stanford Singularity Summit (on AI)
- Leadership Quotes
- File Managers
- 2002 NT7: Lucifer's Hammer
- Raising the Kursk: and the future of naval war.
- Harlan Ellison and intellectual piracy
- Getting to Space
- Republic and Empire: an attempt to pull together materials
- Lessons of the Twentieth Century: Ortega y Gasset
- Infantry in the modern world: observations and a discussion
- Originals:
Several intellectual capital articles as originally done.
- Future Calling
- The Treason of the Clerks
- Predicting the Year 2000
- Dyslexia and ADD: Self control, boys, reading, and drugs.
- Dogs In Elk. If you haven't read this, don't be drinking coffee when you do. You might choke.
- The Hound of Heaven: A poem by Francis Thompson
- A report on Japan.
- Taiwan and the Two Chinas: an essay by me and a report from the Foreign Policy Research institute.
- Bob's Your Uncle: meaning and possible origins of this phrase
- Death Valley Adventures: rolling my Bronco in Death Valley, November 1998
- The USS Hopper: my weekend cruise, with pictures, on a modern warship; to be revised and added to when I get a chance now that I have thought of it.
- Israel (placeholder: my overdue picture report on our trip to Israel still isn't done. Alas.)
- Outlook 98 (June, 1998) Some naive early discussions
- Recommended: What we USE and RECOMMEND at Chaos Manor. Revised when we can get at it, not often enough.
- The Y2K Discussion (Last update September 1998)
- The Yorktown Incident USS Yorktown dead in
water on test cruise; NT seen harmful.
- Indexed January 1999
- The Slashdot Papers: mostly mail about Linux and Microsoft and Commodity pricing and that sort of thing...
- The Lays Of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macauley, with a general introductory note by Pournelle. Vital part of a real education.
- WORK IN PROGRESS: What we're doing at Chaos Manor. Revised from time to time.
- Larry Niven's New Year 1999 Party: some pictures.
- Rotary Rocket Rollout: Private Space Company rolls out Atmospheric test vehicle! With lots of pictures.
- Gulf War Syndrome: causes and coverups.
- A visit to Epcot: a few photographs and thoughts. In progress
- Crusades New and Old: an FPRI report
- Amorphophallus titanum, the Corpse plant
- The Christening of Julian Elise Miller
- A short photo op
- A Night on Mount Wilson: Niven and I go to Mount Wilson Observatory
- A walk in the hills
- Writers of the Future
Intellectual Capital Columns
These ran for several years. They're being put up as I find time.
J Neil Schulman on Moral Ambiguity and Libertarianism
Talin (Talin@ACM.org)
Talin has many contributions scattered through mail; I'm beginning to collect them here.
- Linux and Laptops: Oh My God, it worked. With mail and followups.
- Open Source Development: O'Reily Conference August 1998, plus comments by Pournelle
- The Demon Haunted World: a review and dialogue
- Talin on TCP/IP
- LINUX World Expo
Robert Bruce Thompson [thompson@oreilly.com and there are other addresses]
- Backing Up Windows NT Workstation
- The Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 Digital Camera
- UPGRADING OLD Kerby An elderly Gateway 2000 system gets new brains
- Extending the UTP Ethernet
- Finishing the New Pentium II Box : Old Kerby again
- Juggling Windows NT Servers
- Diskeeper 4.0 Preliminary Report
- Netscape Navigator and Cookies
- Maxtor 91000D8 DiamondMax Plus 2500
- Future of American Strategy February 2006 symposium
- COMPLEX IRREGULAR WARFARE by Frank G. Hoffman On reorganization of the military, January 2006
- WAR: summary of diplomacy before the war began
- Peacefacts A Briefing on the Middle East Peace Process
- The Ideological War for the West
- Robert Mugabe's State of Disaster: Rhodesia Means You
- China in 2001: a recommended general summary.
- America at the dawn of the new Century
- The West at the dawn of the 21st Century
- THE MIDDLE EAST: CLARIFYING ACTS OF VIOLENCE
- Hussein of Jordan: essay by the Foreign Policy Research Institute
- The Capture of Abdullah Ocalan: FPRI Report
- Bombing for Peace: Kossovo
- Anthrax vaccinations
- Winning the Viet Nam War
- Who Were We in Viet Nam?
- China and the Falun Gong
