Center for Strategic Communication

By the Eternal

January 8, 1815, 200 years ago today, the British Empire was sentenced to oblivion. As Andrew Jackson killed the infernal Bank of the United States, a frustrated Congressman, opposed to Jackson, jotted down his thoughts. The first jot was draft of a resolution...

Guest Post: Stephanie Chenault Reviews Saving South Sudan

Zen here – we would like to give a warm welcome to Stephanie Chenault, with her first guest post at ZP! : [ by Stephanie Chenault] “Violence and bloodshed can never have morally good results” – The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare Saving South Sudan...

Octavian Manea Interviews General David Petraeus

[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea has had an excellent series of COIN  interviews at SWJ and this is one of the more important ones: Reflections on the “Counterinsurgency Decade”: Small Wars Journal Interview with General David H....

Is 4GW Dead?: Point-Counterpoint and Commentary

4GW theory has always attracted overenthusiasts and  raging haters ever since the concept emerged way back in 1989, so debates about the merit of 4GW are nothing new; in fact, the arguments became so routine that they had largely gone sterile years ago.  After T.X....

Octavian Manea interviews MIT’s Roger D. Peterson

Another installment of Octavian Manea’s excellent COIN interview series at SWJ. This one focuses on social science and varieties of insurgency: Breaking Down “Hearts and Minds”: The Power of Individual Causal Mechanisms in an Insurgency  ….OM: In your...