Center for Strategic Communication

The Chinese Strategic Tradition: A Research Program (I)

[By T. Greer] . We’re honored and delighted to announce that blog-friend and commenter T Greer has accepted Zen’s invitation to join us as a member of the Zenpundit team, and trust the following post in two parts will stir fruitful conversation not only...

T. Greer on Sun Tzu the Radical

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] T. Greer at Scholar’s Stage had an outstanding post on Sun Tzu and his classic The Art of War the other day in which I learned a number of things that were new to me, which is the best kind of blog post! The Radical...

Syria: the shifting sands

[ by Charles Cameron — two headlines, and one question where the answer may be an unpleasant surprise for AQ ] . I’m certainly not the right person to verify what’s claimed by either of these articles, but for what they’re worth they do...

Plastic

[approached by Lynn C. Rees] Scott’s comment gets me thinking: Truly two main paths present: passive (deter and encourage) and active (conquer, convert, capture, or contain) [via Jeremy and Hans Delbruck]… The strategist needs cognitive elasticity (Boyd would...