Center for Strategic Communication

The Price of Great Journalism

I just subscribed to the New York Times. Just now. My actions were entirely prompted by this article and video by C.J. “Chris” Chivers and the accompanying photographs by Bryan Denton. In the interests of full disclosure, both Chris and Bryan are friends...

What We Owe A Professional Army

I temporarily lose my ability to speak and write freely in about two weeks, so I am using what time I have left to stir up as much controversy as possible. Over Twitter two days ago and in my World Politics Review column yesterday, I broached a subject that might...

Those Other West Bank Terrorists

Dan Byman and Natan Sachs have a great article in the new Foreign Affairs on the rise of settler terrorism in the West Bank. I suspect that some will argue Byman and Sachs are “brave” to tackle such a “controversial” issue, but reading the...

On Accusations of Orientalism

Is there a lazier way to dismiss analysis of the contemporary Middle East than by leveling a blanket accusation of Orientalism? Rami Khouri: [The] discussion of how events will unfold in post-Assad Syria is riddled with wildly unsubstantiated speculation and...

Back in the USSA (Links)

I have been abroad for the past five weeks and just got back two nights ago. I have currently worked my way through two weeks of emails and have another three to go, so if you have tried to get in touch over the past month, have some patience with me. I was working a...