Dr. Thomas Parker worked in the Executive Office of the President, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, the Intelligence Community and the U.S. Congress over the course of thirty years. He currently teaches security studies at George Washington University. With U.S. national elections in November, would Iran try to intervene in an attempt to bring about “regime change” in Washington? No doubt, Iran would like to see President Trump defeated; he...

Thomas Parker has worked on national security affairs at the State Department and Defense Department, served as international affairs adviser to Senator Joseph Lieberman, and taught at the University of Paris. T he most interesting military debate in Washington today is not about the size of the Pentagon's budget or the performance of its forces in Yugoslavia, but whether the nature of war is changing so much that a new, even revolutionary, set of weapons are needed. This discussion has...

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Western Europeans invented the notion of whiteness to distinguish them from other "races". In fact colonialism and imperialism is the start of social construction of race. Context matters a lot, so normally it would not be racist for a non-white person to denote that a white person as white, it would be a physically distinguishing feature at best, it would also not be racist for a white person to denote someone from Africa as black, again used as a physically distinguishing feature. Unless...

Note: I am using 4th edition of the text My first impression is that this book is a bit old (still uses excel for computation, hopefully no longer the case in the newest edition) and a bit on the wordy side, definitely not written for mathematicians. This book has a very "spoon-fed" style, definitely a cook book type approach to mathematics "do this first, do that next if this doesn't work". This book drags on too long on Laplace Transform, a topic which I don't think it should be that...