Robert Kaplan at the DMZ

For those Coming Anarchy fans out there, Robert Kaplan was just sighted at the Korean DMZ by the News21 team:

(…) a man walked out of a different office and introduced himself as Bob Kaplan. I recognized that his name sounded vaguely familiar but was too tired to process why, so I shook his hand and introduced myself. Katie, on the other hand, asked him if by Bob, he meant Robert, and if by “Robert Kaplan,” he meant Robert Kaplan, contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and author of Imperial Grunts (…)

Katie and I started to ask him about his general experiences with the military and his observations about what’s happening. One of his main points is that one of the ways the military is restructuring itself is to reorganize itself in ways that resemble what’s happening in corporations–in particular, trying to pass responsibility down the command chain, so that individuals can take action without having to wait to get approval from above.

At some point he commented on how he thought that blogging makes people worse writers.

Kaplan point about the US military trying to empower lower level leaders is very true because in todays environment decisions have to made quickly by those on the ground without having to wait for approval from above.  Now the comment about blogging making people worse writers I have to dispute.  A lot of bad writers blog, but from my experience the longer you blog the better your writing becomes.

Anyway I wonder if Curzon is jealous of the News21 team?