Center for Strategic Communication

War and Policing at The Break it Down Show

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] The Break it Down Show hosted two guests of interest to the ZP readership recently, both authors. The first is LTC Michael G. Waltz, a fellow at the New America Foundation and former DoD and NSC official in the second Bush...

Pete Turner on “Collecting Instability”

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Pete Turner of The Break it Down Show had a powerful post that encapsulated what is wrong with the American approach to intervention in foreign societies, both in terms of our aid and development programs as well as COIN...

Break it Down Show – LTG Daniel P. Bolger

   Friend of ZP, Pete Turner and his partner Jon interview LTG Daniel P. Bolger, author of Why We Lost, at The Break it Down Show: The General’s Account – With Daniel P. Bolger  This is a great episode, a “must listen” event – insurgency,...

Don Vandergriff on The Break it Down Show

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Don Vandergriff Friend of ZP blog Don Vandergriff, author of Raising the Bar and co-author (with Fred Leland) of The Adaptive Leadership Handbook, was a guest on The Break it Down Show: The Path of Don Vandergriff  Don...

John Nagl and Knife Fights on The Break it Down Show

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“]    Knife Fights by John Nagl Jon and Pete of The Break it Down Show interview arch-COINdinista and former CNAS president turned educator, Dr. John Nagl.  Pete, who is a deep believer in (and practitioner of)...