by zen | Oct 10, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski AKA “zen”] Octavian Manea has two excellent interviews up at SWJ; for those interested in COIN theory and history, these are must-reads: Learning From Today’s Crisis of Counterinsurgency SWJ: What is the relevance of post-9/11...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 28, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a small devotional exercise for our sometimes too-secular world ] . In the upper image of the pair above, a crowd in Raqqa, Syria, is protesting the desecration of a church by Islamist enthusiasts who had pulled down the cross atop a...
by zen | Sep 7, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea and SWJ are on something of a roll lately. Colonel T.X. Hammes (ret.) PhD is the respected author of the excellent The Sling and the Stone. If you have never read it, you should. The Fallacies of Big...
by zen | Sep 2, 2013 | Monitor
[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....
by zen | Aug 9, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski – a.k.a. “zen”] Grand strategy in 1941 A very interesting article at Small Wars Journal by Captain Sean F.X. Barrett, USMC on the state of contemporary grand strategy. Definitely worth the time to read the whole thing:, but I am...
