by zen | Mar 25, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / a.k.a “zen“] The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House […] by Zalmay Khalilzad Just received a courtesy review copy of The Envoy, the memoir of Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, from Christine at St. Martin’s Press. Khalilzad...
by J.ScottShipman | Nov 10, 2014 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] To Make and Keep Peace, Among Ourselves and with All Nations, by Angelo M. Codevilla Recently I had opportunity to read the latest issue of the Claremont Review of Books, and in the issue was a lengthy review of Angelo Codevilla’s latest...
by zen | Jul 8, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] I have a new piece up at the excellent War on the Rocks site that is oriented towards both history and contemporary policy Some Excerpts: A New Nixon Doctrine: Strategy for a Polycentric World ….Asia was only the...
by Charles Cameron | May 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an argument on behalf of the Fulbrights from the words of Muhammad Ali ] . Muhammad Ali famously described his strategy versus Sonny Liston thus: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t...
by zen | Apr 23, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Our Clausewitzian friend, Seydlitz89 commented on my recent post on politics and strategy and has a new one of his own that accurately frames a solution to the geopolitical disarray in which the United States finds itself...
