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While the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson was working on the infamous Smile LP, he heard a copy of the Beatle’s Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Fearing that he couldn’t match the achievement, Wilson had a nervous breakdown, spending a year in bed and shelving Smile for more than thirty years (He finally released a version in 2004).

That’s basically how I felt when I read Dan Dupont, guest blogging for Noah Shachtman at Defense Tech.

Dan unleashed some epic posts about security signage, moon missions and the implications of punk rock on defense acquisition.

Now Dan, editor of the Inside Defense family of newsletters, has his own blog at Inside Defense. I am calling this a must-read for all your programming planning, budgeting and execution news.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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