Who is Pournelle?
Jerry Pournelle. A really interesting man, passed a few years ago. Was a cold warrior who did strategic game theory stuff, was an assistant mayor to Sam Yorty in Los Angeles (I believe the last Republican mayor), was a noted computer columnist in Byte magazine back in the early days of PCs, and a very successful science fiction writer. Probably best described as a paleocon politically. Was very against the war in Iraq and the nation building part of Afghanistan. Thought we should have built space power satellites for energy independence from the Middle East instead of going to war there.
His kids still keep his web page up. He hated the word blog, but he arguably had the first blog. It was daily reading for me, along with Free Republic. Oh, and his first word processing computer is in the Smithsonian.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/