by editor | Jan 9, 2008 | Counterterrorism, Iraq, Movements
by Steven R. Corman In today’s New York Times, General Charles Dunlap Jr. argues that the Army’s new counterinsurgency manual is being misinterpreted and that we must deal with insurgents the old-fashioned way–by killing them: Unfortunately,...
by admin | Jan 7, 2008 | White Papers
Steven R. Corman & Kevin J. Dooley For approximately the last decade, the United States has been moving to centralize and more tightly control its messages. Accelerating this trend, U.S. strategic communication efforts under the current administration follow the...
by editor | Jan 7, 2008 | Media
by Steven R. Corman The crew over at As-Sahab Media has been busy recently, producing a new meandering video screed by Azzam the American calling for the bombing of President Bush on his Middle East visit, and a cell phone download library featuring the most requested...
by editor | Jan 7, 2008 | Complexity, Counterterrorism, Diplomacy
by Steven R. Corman Today the CSC has released a new white paper that is a companion piece to our Pragmatic Complexity paper from last year. This paper applies another idea from complexity theory, Kauffman’s Rugged Landscape Model, to the problem of finding the...
by editor | Jan 4, 2008 | Iraq
CSC friend Matt Armstrong a.k.a. Mountainrunner has a new post at Small Wars Journal about the importance of capitalizing on recent gains in Iraq by following through with success in the reconstuction effort: The U.S. needs to take a systematic, holistic “whole of...
