{"id":7741,"date":"2019-03-24T10:44:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T10:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7741"},"modified":"2019-03-24T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T10:44:35","slug":"hard-power-soft-power-muscovy-strategy-and-my-once-again-failure-to-understand-where-niall-ferguson-is-coming-from-live-from-le-pain-quotidien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/24\/hard-power-soft-power-muscovy-strategy-and-my-once-again-failure-to-understand-where-niall-ferguson-is-coming-from-live-from-le-pain-quotidien\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Power, Soft Power, Muscovy, Strategy, and My Once-Again Failure to Understand Where Niall Ferguson Is Coming From: Live from Le Pain Quotidien"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And I think: The science fiction\/horror\/fantasy author David Drake very effectively and rightly, I think,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1451637713\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1451637713&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=brde-20&amp;linkId=W76TATBQRK6YVT74\">puts it thus<\/a>\u00a0in the mouth of one of his characters,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the Goddess Athene<\/span>\u00a0Danny Pritchard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Force accomplishes a lot of things. They just aren\u2019t the ones you want here. Bring in the Slammers [Regiment] and we kick ass for as long as you pay us. Six months, a year. And we kick ass even if the other side brings in mercs of their own&#8211;which they\u2019ll do&#8211;but that\u2019s not a problem, not if you\u2019ve got us. So, there\u2019s what? Three hundred thousand people&#8230;.<br \/>\nSo, you want to kill fifty kay? Fifty thousand people, let\u2019s remember they\u2019re people for the moment&#8230;. You see, if we go in quick and dirty, the only way that has a prayer of working is if we get them all. If we get everybody who opposes you, everybody related to them, everybody who called them master&#8211;everybody&#8230;. They\u2019re not dangerous now, but they will be after the killing starts. Believe me. I\u2019ve seen it often enough. Not all of them, but one in ten, one in a hundred. One in a thousand\u2019s enough when he blasts your car down over the ocean a year from now. You\u2019ll see. It changes people, the killing does. Once it starts, there\u2019s no way to stop it but all the way to the end. If you figure to still live here on Tethys&#8230;.<br \/>\nWhat do you think the Slammers do, milady? Work magic? We kill, and we\u2019re good at it, bloody good. You call the Slammers in to solve your problems here and you\u2019ll be able to cover the Port with the corpses. I guarantee it. I\u2019ve done it, milady. In my time&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bradford-delong.com\/2015\/01\/2014-01-05-mo-hard-power-soft-power-muscovy-strategy-and-my-once-again-failure-to-understand-niall-ferguson-live-from-l.html\">Hard Power, Soft Power, Muscovy, Strategy, and My Once-Again Failure to Understand Where Niall Ferguson Is Coming From: Live from Le Pain Quotidien<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I think: The science fiction\/horror\/fantasy author David Drake very effectively and rightly, I think,\u00a0puts it thus\u00a0in the mouth of one of his characters,\u00a0the Goddess Athene\u00a0Danny Pritchard: Force accomplishes a lot of things. They just aren\u2019t the ones you want here. Bring in the Slammers [Regiment] and we kick ass for as long as you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/24\/hard-power-soft-power-muscovy-strategy-and-my-once-again-failure-to-understand-where-niall-ferguson-is-coming-from-live-from-le-pain-quotidien\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hard Power, Soft Power, Muscovy, Strategy, and My Once-Again Failure to Understand Where Niall Ferguson Is Coming From: Live from Le Pain Quotidien&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}