Center for Strategic Communication

Owls and roosters, wolves and warnings

[ by Charles Cameron — too quiet, too loud, two versions ] . . This isn’t the rooster and owl conjunction I refer to in this post, but it’s popping up in the DC area ** I’m sure I first heard of the problem of the little boy who cried...

Is Grand Strategy Democratic?

[by Mark Safranski – a.k.a. “zen”] Grand strategy in 1941 A very interesting article at Small Wars Journal by Captain Sean F.X. Barrett, USMC on the state of contemporary grand strategy. Definitely worth the time to read the whole thing:, but I am...

The Controversial CTC Report

The Center for Combating Terrorism at West Point released a report on domestic terrorism that raised hackles for a number of reasons. Despite the dismissals of liberal political pundits, the reasons for objections to the CTC report are legitimate but they did not need...

A Tunisian Vignette

In October, Marianne, a French weekly, reported on the existence of two training camps in Tunisia and little government interest  in addressing the issue.  The Tunisian government denied the report.  I found a translation of the original article, excerpted below....