Your (not so) humble author: Stewart Riley
His (very) humble means of support: Teaching history to undergraduates at several Philadelphia area educational institutions.
His (arguably) humble abode: Philadelphia, PA (along with a wife, a dog and a cats.)
His (currently) principle interests: Strategic policy, military and intelligence reform, renewable energy policy, transportation infrastructure policy, global warming and environmental policy, educational theory and policy, atheism and church-state issues, and (of course) hiking.
Aside from being long-winded, I do have a few other distinguishing traits that some will notice. I am, first and foremost, a radical left-progressive with a strong social-libertarian leaning. Don’t expect stock answers from me on policy matters; I go where the evidence seems to take me and worry about ideological catagories later. I am also an atheist, an empiricist and a philosophical naturalist by outlook, so I have little patience with belief in the supernatural in any form. I don’t go out of my way to be rude to the religious, but I have fairly strong opinions on issues like separation of church and state that are bound to be a part of the discussion here at Strategos. I also do not take well to being proselytized, so don’t waste your efforts trying to “save” me.
I’ll try to conduct Strategos as an open forum for discussion of strategic ideas. While I’ll insist on evidence if you want to make a point to me (and have me answer it, anyway) I won’t hold commenters to academic standards (though I do expect that a fair idea of copyright will be honored.) I tend toward the academic in my writing, so I’ll try to keep the citations and the technical jargon to a minimum. Still, good analysis needs sources, and I expect to include many in my own posts.
