Center for Strategic Communication

Serpent logics: a ramble

[ by Charles Cameron — continuing my exploration of a pattern language of thoughts, both verbal and imagistic ] . This is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships. pic.twitter.com/GqzTB866WK via @usmanm — Nat. Maritime Museum (@NMMGreenwich) October...

Serpent logics: the marathon

[ by Charles Cameron — oh, the sheer delightful drudgery of finding patterns everywhere ] . I’ll start this post, as I did the previous one to which this is a sort of appendix, with a (deeply strange, tell me about it) example of the… Matrioshka...

Familiar logo, familiar shape

[ by Charles Cameron — at the intersection of drones and IRGC graphics ] . Just a quick note that as of late September 2013, Iran has begun mass-production of the Shahed-129 drone, having first announced it in September of 2012. Iran claims the Shahed-129 can...

Of death and children, one way or the other

[ by Charles Cameron — thoughts triggered by the Jeremy Scahill & Lawrence Wright documentaries ] . I don’t really enjoy writing this, because I’m loath to suggest that sixteen year old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was in fact a combatant, though it...

Pattern recognition: backlash

[ by Charles Cameron — on human obstinacy, a change of heart, and what seems to me a major piece from Res Militaris ] . There’s a pattern of backlash that occurs when you present people with facts that don’t fit their preconceptions — they...