Center for Strategic Communication

Of blood and song

by | Apr 10, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — what carves memory? blood is spilled, song carries grief and anger across centuries ] , One hundred years ago, Irish blood was spilled in the Easter Uprising of 1916, as Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains call us to remember in...

Churchill’s oratory, American might

by | Feb 25, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — some thoughts on Churchill while prepping a post re Cole Bunzel’s new paper ] . Let’s pre-amble around a bit, before we get to Cole Bunzel‘s important new paper, The Kingdom and the Caliphate: Duel of the Islamic States...

War, Games and morale

by | Dec 20, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — on gaming “living and moral forces” — with a whiff or two of Montaigne ] . ** Let’s start with Clausewitz, On War. He says — and we’d be wise to pay attention — “most of the matters dealt...

Angels considered as an Air Force

by | Sep 12, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — when not dancing innumerably on the heads of pins ] . I responded to a question from David Ronfeldt today by saying I don’t know of a book that offers a “a sustained, point-for-point, systematic, thorough comparison”...