Archive - The Outpost

Propaganda Made in China

The event produced no human casualties, although there may have been some dead cows. I remember the smoke from Israeli artillery rising over Mount…

Nov 13, 2023 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

June 2023

Warrior, Soldier, Noob: a short reflection on war porn and shark attacks

Tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) are a species of what zoologists refer to as carcharhiniformes, which comes from the Greek κάρχαρος (karcharos, sharp…

Jun 19, 2023 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

May 2023

Bandung a Sea of Fire: un-aligning the periphery

I spent the better part of Summer 2013 as an exchange student in the city of Bandung, in Indonesia. Contrary to the better known (to Westerners…

May 6, 2023 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

April 2023

What happened to National Geographic?

Guest post at Other Life

Apr 19, 2023 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

Join me on Notes

A new place to connect

Apr 12, 2023 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

Nigerian prostitution rings, on how to live a certain way

At the beginning of this year I found myself in Lagos, Nigeria, on an urgent, flash business trip. The moment was less than ideal for traveling, as it…

Apr 10, 2023 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

March 2023

A slightly better form of metonymy

An almost inevitable defect of geopolitical discourse consists in expressing arguments in terms of a state’s interests. This is inevitable given the…

Mar 19, 2023 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

Mercenaries as lean recruitment: lessons from the Toyota Production System

Toyoda Automatic Loom Works was an engineering manufacturing company established in the 1920s by Sakichi Toyoda (1967-1930), the son of a successful…

Mar 7, 2023 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

February 2023

What's in a name?

A rose is a rose, and a frontier is a frontier

Feb 19, 2023 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

July 2022

Playing chicken in Africa

Is NATO back in the game? Last month, the streets of Madrid were clogged with official cars, conspicuous plainclothes secret service, and motorized…

Jul 31, 2022 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

In the news (09/07/2022): cannibalism as an answer to food insecurity

Exactly 350 years ago, Johan de Witt was having what could be called a rough summer. The man who had spent the last 20 years as de facto ruler of the…

Jul 10, 2022 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

June 2022

War and Mass human sacrifice

On the initial days of my military life, one of the most common exhortations my section’s drill instructor directed to us was to remain at all times…

Jun 29, 2022 •

Cornelius Stahlblau

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