Adam (Simulated Laughter) and Mark (ZenPundit) both have shiny new blogs.

  • ZenPundit.com: Finally, this excellent blog has the design and appearance appropriate for the quality of its posts.
  • Rethinking Security: Adam’s new blog. I love the banner image!

A good-looking blog doesn’t have to be hard work, but coming up with a good design isn’t always easy. It is also my firm belief that buying your own domain, organizing your own hosting or signing up to a non-free blogging service can send powerful signals about the value you put on your blog. Congratulations, Mark and Adam!

Two commentators from excellent-but-Web 1.0 site, Defense and the National Interest, are now blogging.

And a couple of Aussie blogs. Good to see more sources of international analysis down under.

  • The Interpreter: weblog of the Australian-based Lowy Institute. I’ve been downloading their speeches and presentations for listening at work for the last year and a half, so I look forward to reading this blog. Thanks for the tip, Strat!
  • Auspundits: “a blog that aims to provide Australian-based commentary on world affairs. Its contributors provide opinion and news summaries through a conservative/libertarian lens.”

UPDATE: Adam has brought to my attention that Shlok’s newish blog, Naxalite Rage, wasn’t on my blogroll. How could I forget? A must-read for those interested in the intersection of globalization and insurgency. More info in the comments.

UPDATE 2:  Defense and the National Interest, following contributors Fabius Maximus and Chet Richards, has now moved to WordPress.com.  The old site is still up as an archive/backup.

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6 Responses to “Blogroll updates”

Thanks for the shoutout! I like PE’s banner image as well.

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What do you think about Shlok’s new Naxalite Rage blog?

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I’m very impressed by it. Don’t know how I forgot to add it to the blogroll, but have rectified this now and will update the post to reflect it.

As for the blog itself, I like it both as an implementation of Robb’s ideas and in its own right as an objective analysis of the Maoist insurgency. It jibes with my own thinking on the subject, too, but even better to have someone with first-hand knowledge writing it.

I’m also interested in the Maoist insurgency because of its ideological underpinnings. Left-wing insurgencies have declined since 1989 for obvious reasons, so I would like to see if the escalation in India heralds a more general return. That’s about the only major gap in Shlok’s analysis so far, IMHO.

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[...] of Pacific Empire likes Naxalite [...]

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Thanks Phil. I’ll get around to compiling a good basics reading list soon enough with your primer on it.

Working on the resurgent insurgencies stuff, trying to get a longer paper/article published on it.

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Thanks for the kind words!

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