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Moltke and His Generals: A Study in Leadership (Book Review) by Quintin Barry
Review of Moltke and His Generals: A Study in Leadership by Quintin Barry
Moltke and His Generals: A Study in Leadership (Book Review) by Quintin Barry
Review of Moltke and His Generals: A Study in Leadership by Quintin Barry
Rehabilitating Mcclellan: Did Radical Republicans Conspire Against \u27Young Napoleon\u27?
He was a charismatic, natural born leader who graduated second in his class at West Point and achieved fame during this country\u27s darkest moment. Why then is George B. McClellan so poorly regarded today? McClellan certainly was an extremely well-educated, superbly trained, experienced officer, as...
The Indispensability of Ghost Fields in the Light-Cone Gauge Quantization of Gauge Fields
We continue McCartor and Robertson's recent demonstration of the
indispensability of ghost fields in the light-cone gauge quantization of gauge
fields. It is shown that the ghost fields are indispensable in deriving
well-defined antiderivatives and in regularizing the most singular component of
gauge field propagator. To this end it is sufficient to confine ourselves to
noninteracting abelian fields. Furthermore to circumvent dealing with
constrained systems, we construct the temporal gauge canonical formulation of
the free electromagnetic field in auxiliary coordinates
where and plays the role of time. In so doing we
can quantize the fields canonically without any constraints, unambiguously
introduce "static ghost fields" as residual gauge degrees of freedom and
construct the light-cone gauge solution in the light-cone representation by
simply taking the light-cone limit (). As a by product we
find that, with a suitable choice of vacuum the Mandelstam-Leibbrandt form of
the propagator can be derived in the case (the temporal gauge
formulation in the equal-time representation).Comment: 21 pages, uses ptptex.st
Population and Affective Perception: Biopolitics and Anticipatory Action in US Counterinsurgency Doctrine
This paper analyses the biopolitical logics of current US counterinsurgency doctrine in the context of the multiple forms of biopower that make up the âwar on terrorâ. It argues that counterinsurgency doctrine aims to prevent spectral networked insurgencies by intervening on the âenvironmentâ of insurgent formationâthe relations between three different enactments of âpopulationâ (species being, logistical life and ways of life) and a fourthâaffectively imbued perception. Counterinsurgency is best characterised, then, as an âenvironmentalityâ (Foucault M 2008 The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the CollĂŠge De France, 1978â1979. Translated by G Burchell. London: Palgrave Macmillan) that redeploys elements from other forms of biopolitics alongside an emphasis on network topologies, future-orientated action and affective perception