Center for Strategic Communication

Loading up for Survival, Church and State

by | Aug 30, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — Merkel’s under attack for recommending Germans keep a two-week supply of food ] . Mormon faithful are exhorted by the First Presidency of their Church in a pamphlet titled All is safely gathered in “to prepare for adversity in...

Big Ideas and MediaGlyphs

by | Aug 16, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — Mad Scientist asks, John Robb responds] . Today’s call and response comes to me via two blog posts that followed one another in my RSS feed — in the reverse order to the one I read them in. I’ve straightened that out so...

The Cockroaches of War. And of Jihad

by | Aug 6, 2014 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] John Robb had a cool post on the ultra-radical takfiri insurgency ISIS/ISIL and their self-proclaimed Sunni “Caliphate“, the Islamic State, whom he gave as an example of “the cockroaches of war”:...

Coming soon to a world near you?

by | Jul 31, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — privacy, drones, & movies — with a tip of the hat to John Robb ] . ** Robb has words for us at his hideously-named post, Botageddon, on Global Guerrillas today: The end game for botageddon is less than thirty years out....