by T. Greer | Jun 2, 2015 | Monitor
[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...
by zen | Jan 4, 2015 | Monitor
[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...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 28, 2014 | Monitor
[ 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...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 19, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — also the battle of Gaixia, 200 BCE, with an echo late in the Korean War — and a tip of the hat to Emlyn ] . Kagemusha, the flute call: ** There’s a sequence near the start of Akria Kurosawa‘s masterpiece, Kagemusha, when...
by Lynn C. Rees | Dec 17, 2013 | Monitor
[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...