by SWJ Editors | Jun 30, 2013 | Monitor
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by Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of Ozymandias, as Shelley’s story-teller friend reminds us, all that remains are “vast and trunkless legs of stone” ] . I am very fond of the long view, in which each of us becomes (physical) dust and enters (mental)...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — further notes from the frayed edges of what’s significant ] . Okay, you all know I’m interested in the graphics of terrorism and their symbolism, and only a day or two ago I posted Of dualities, contradictions and the...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jun 29, 2013 | Monitor
[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees] Sigh What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it? Once upon a time… During my first year’s encampment General Scott visited West Point, and reviewed the cadets. With his commanding figure, his quite...
by The Long War Journal | Jun 29, 2013 | Monitor
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, claimed it launched two suicide assaults and other attacks with Syrian rebel groups, including an Islamist unit and two Free Syrian Army brigades. The Al Nusrah Front made the...