by zen | Apr 20, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / “zen“] Rule of the Clan by Mark Weiner I often review good books. Sometimes I review great ones. The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals about the Future of Individual Freedom  by Mark S. Weiner gets...
by zen | Apr 5, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / “zen“] A while back I had a longish post that argued that the mass executions practiced by ISISÂ drew from the long pagan tradition of ritualistic human sacrifice. Today in the news, some social scientists see evidence of human...
by zen | Mar 19, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / “zen“] U.S. Marines display captured flag of Nicaraguan rebels led by Augusto Cesar Sandino While pop-centric COIN may be dead, small wars and irregular warfare will always be with us. We might say they are in the fourth or fifth...
by zen | Feb 19, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / “zen“] Torn from the pages of Small Wars Journal….. Global Radical Islamist Insurgency: al Qaeda and Islamic State Networks Focus Vol. II 2012-2014Â edited by Dave Dilegge and Robert Bunker New and looking to be very useful....
by zen | Oct 23, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] The Defense Entrepreneur’s Forum is one of the major national conferences dedicated to exploring innovative ideas and cultural change in defense, military leadership and national security and it is being held in...