by zen | Jul 17, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Dr. Chet Richards had some kind words to say about my review of American Spartan the other day and added some Boydian strategic analysis to the saga of Major Jim Gant to boot: Zen Pundit on American Spartan ….As...
by Charles Cameron | May 7, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — some angles on Boko Haram ]. . Boko Haram is irreducibly complex, quoth Tehu Cole: I understand the impulse to "do something." But Boko Haram is irreducibly complex. Makes Kony look like child's play. http://t.co/Vv3pYiycqK...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — leaping as far out of the box from Education: on Engineers, the Navy — and excuse me, Jihad as I can manage ] . Director / Actor Jean Renoir as Octave in Rules of the Game ** Let me dive directly in at the deep end. If, as Keith Oatley...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 11, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — another runup to the glass bead game ] . Below you can read my submission to the wonderful 3 Quarks Daily “web aggregator” site as a candidate to join their regular Monday blogging team — it didn’t even make their...
by zen | Sep 23, 2013 | Monitor
David Ronfeldt, RAND strategist and theorist has done a deep two-part review of America 3.0 over at his Visions from Two Theories blog. Ronfeldt has been spending the last few years developing his TIMN analytic framework (Tribes, Institutions [hierarchical],...
