Center for Strategic Communication

Squaring the circle, with a side of nostaligia?

[ by Charles Cameron — CIA, Osama, gaming, and I ] . What I have in my collection, somewhere: and what CIA has in theirs: ** In search of our respective lost childhoods? À la recherche du temps perdu? To be honest, I think the gameplay in mine’s a bit more...

Analysis, and the question of trust

[ by Charles Cameron — who was taught to think of “longer term” as extending to our children of the seventh generation ] . Here’s the problem: Nicole Kidman as analyst Dr Julia Kelly gets an order in DreamWorks SKG’s movie, The Peacemaker...

What We Are Reading

Key Reads   Military experts tie climate change to security threat in talk at LSU Amy Wold / The Advocate Forget the bipartisan grandstanding and that it’s been an environmental cause. What two retired military experts wanted people to know about climate change...

The Tortured Debate about Torture

By Patricia Lee SharpePinch me!Wake me from this nightmare!Am I really stuck in an America awash in arguments pro torture put forth by fellow Americans proudly proclaiming they’d do it again?  Waterboarding.  Rectal rapes.  Chaining.  Hanging. Agonizing stress...