Back in May of this year, Army Captain Michael Cummings and journalist/screenwriter Eric Cummings created On Violence, the latest of many treasures in the national security blogosphere that I’ve belatedly discovered. Although the blog has been underway for seven months, they’ve only just now published their blogroll, and in a cogent post they explain the intentional delay:
It’s taken us a long time to publish our blogroll. Why? We didn’t want to put out a blogroll we didn’t believe in. Too many blogrolls are filled with outdated, broken links, or have too many links to be useful.
The purpose of a blogroll, in our opinion, is to guide readers to the best foreign policy, military affairs, and news blogs on the net, not to receive backlinks from other websites. Our blogroll is for you, not us. Ideally, if our website were the first FP/MA/News blog you’ve ever read, we can guide you to the best blogs on the net.
We’d also like to say that old media news sources–NPR on radio, NewHour on television, The Economist and the New Yorker for weekly news magazines–still provide some of the best analysis out there.
Having said the above, we consider our blogroll a living document. Expect us to update it every so often and provide a post explaining why.
For their selections (which are very interesting) and supporting rationales, see the full post.
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Thanks for the shout out!