by zen | Mar 30, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] I have a new piece up at The Chicago Progressive: Who Lost Russia? If you are old enough to remember the iconic moment when Boris Yeltsin climbed on a tank on CNN and defied leaders of a KGB coup and then watched seventy...
by zen | Mar 15, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Adam Elkus had a nice post on the sound and fury over the open letter by 47 Republican senators to the government of Iran, asserting Congressional prerogatives regarding contractual relations with in foreign powers:...
by zen | Feb 10, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] “Alas, poor Clausewitz….” The Obama administration released its National Security Strategy last Friday, shepherded by the National Security Courtier, Susan Rice. Even by the increasingly mediocre...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jan 25, 2015 | Monitor
[by master-archer, Lynn C. Rees] The Strategikon, a Byzantine Roman military manual attributed to the Emperor Maurice Flavius Mauricius Tiberius, summarized Roman calvary training towards the end of the sixth century: He should be trained to shoot rapidly on foot,...
by zen | Dec 30, 2013 | Monitor
[Mark safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Bilbo cowering at the approach of Smaug’s henchmen, Darth Vader and Magneto My review of the first Hobbit movie was blistering. The second Hobbit film, The Desolation of Smaug, is such a travesty, I lack sufficient...
