Though he's a bit too modest to accept the moniker I bestowed on him of "the blogosphere's resident math genius," Drew Conway is really doing interesting work that is very relevant to the future of strategic studies. There's been a bit of a blowup in the past over the role of quantification in strategy, and there is truth to the argument that quant often substitutes for analysis. Anyone familiar with Robert McNamara understands this rather intimately. But Conway's blogs effectively bridge the divide between more qualitative theorists and those who use mathematic tools. In fact, his work often demonstrates that there shouldn't be a divide at all.
Boing Boing recently highlighted Conway's spatial analysis of the Wikileaks attack data, but my favorite post on his Zero Intelligence Agents blog is his formal analysis of Clausewitz. For Clausewitz scholars, this is an interesting opportunity for interdisciplinary research akin to the famous paper on Clausewitz and nonlinearity. Conway has also done fascinating formal analyses of human rights advocacy networks.
In general, this is some highly interesting stuff that continues in the tradition of Thomas Schelling, Trevor Dupuy's historical analysis, and Stephen Biddle's work on the modern tactical system.
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