Center for Strategic Communication

Echevarria and the Irrational in Strategy

Adam Elkus alerted me to an insightful op-ed by Dr. Antulio Echevarria of SSI: Op-Ed: Is Strategy Really A Lost Art? …. Instead, we need to rediscover the value of strategizing relative to the outcome, the product, an individual strategy. The hard truth is that...

War on Speed

[ by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] “When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a Boche will get him eventually. The hell with that. My men don’t dig foxholes. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving.”    ...

New Book and New Monograph

The Strategy Bridge by Colin S. Gray I have been eager to read this book by the eminent Anglo-American strategist Colin Gray ever since Adam Elkus sang it’s praises and now I have a hardcover copy thanks entirely to an enterprising amigo. A description from...