by zen | Feb 14, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / “zen“] ZP is pleased to bring you a guest post by Pete Turner, co-host of The Break it Down Show and is an advocate of better, smarter, transition operations. Turner has extensive overseas experience in...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 19, 2015 | Monitor
[ a guest post by Melissa Roddy ] ‘ Tim Furnish recently taught a course on Jihad, Apocalypse and Terrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and suggested to Melissa Roddy, one of his students, that she should submit this piece...
by zen | May 1, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen“] [Photo credit: Peter Velter] Is strategy dead? Strategy seems to be widely admired in Western governmental circles, but no longer practiced in matters of state. I am not saying strategy has been forgotten. Far from it....
by zen | Aug 29, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] ISIS or the Islamic State “Caliphate” is the focus of a great deal of discussion and demands for action from the United States – and also inaction – from many quarters. What is to be done? That is...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 15, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — two learnings about Hezbollah, in process and with one question each ] . . The trouble with this internet thing is that it offers nonstop opportunities for learning. I hope my readers here at Zenpundit know by now that I’m an amateur...