American Grand Strategy after November 2012

Contents Digest November 2012

UTMS 2012 – 16 November 14 , 2012

We establish an isoperimetric inequality with constraint by ndimensional lattices. We prove that, among all domains which consist of rectangular parallelepipeds with the common side-lengths, a cube is the best shape to minimize the ratio involving its perimeter and volume as long as the cube is realizable by the lattice. For its proof a solvability of finite difference PoissonNeumann problems i...

Lecture 19 — November 15 , 2012

In the last lecture, we saw the graph powering method, which allows us to increase the soundness gap but has the drawback of increasing the alphabet size from |Σ| to |Σ|dt (where |Σ| is a constant). In this lecture, we describe how to reduce the alphabet size (from |Σ|dt back to |Σ|), while causing only a small decrease in the gap (and a constant factor increase in the constraint graph size). T...

Psychological Services - November 12, 2012

Intelligence and Grand Strategy

Elegant strategies can be constructed without reference to intelligence but persuading policymakers to implement them without knowing what intelligence might have to say about their likely efficacy and unintended consequences would be exceedingly difficult. Intelligence-derived information and insights should not dictate the goals of grand strategy, but they should inform decisions about what t...