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Originally Posted by Harmon
Pournelle was an intellectual protege of Russell Kirk (Kenneth C. Cole, Pournelle's mentor at the University of Washington, was co-founder with Kirk of Modern Age) and Stefan T. Possony with whom Pournelle wrote numerous publications including The Strategy of Technology, onetime textbook at the United States Military Academy (West Point) and the United States Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs). His work in the aerospace industry includes editing Project 75, a 1964 study of 1975 defense requirements. He worked in operations research at Boeing, The Aerospace Corporation, and North American Rockwell Space Division, and was founding President of the Pepperdine Research Institute.
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Neat list. However, I don't really see how that makes him qualified in the area in which you're using him as "authority", or why he would "know" that government will make a worse mess of everything over time, etc., nor how this somehow invalidates the second point of my post. And "refuting" my statement that I don't really see how that guy's opinion is relevant by introducing some facts about how he co-authored a military manual into the discussion is not an answer to that part, they're just red herrings.