by goodall | Sep 1, 2010 | Afghanistan, Analysis, Framing, Iraq, Narrative, Obama, Politics
by Bud Goodall President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office last night announced the end of combat operations in Iraq. The speech was largely driven by his choice of a defining metaphor: “We have sent our young men and women to make enormous sacrifices in...
by furlow | Jul 7, 2010 | Islam, Movements, Politics, Somaila
by R. Bennett Furlow To say Somalia has problems would be the very definition of an understatement. Piracy has certainly received its share of attention, primarily because it is sensational and somewhat easy to comprehend. The chaos in the south also gets some...
by halverson | May 18, 2010 | Analysis, Government, Islam, Movements, Muslim Brotherhood, Politics, Publications, Religion
by Jeffry R. Halverson The following is a summary of some arguments from my new book, Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam: The Muslim Brotherhood, Ash’arism, and Political Sunnism, published by Palgrave Macmillan. It offers an explanation of why fundamentalist...
by goodall | Dec 14, 2009 | Analysis, Framing, Narrative, Obama, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Bud Goodall In Thursday’s Nobel acceptance speech, President Obama delivered the powerful narrative I had hoped to hear in his previous West Point address on Afghanistan. I was critical of the West Point address due to: “the absence of a compelling...
by editor | Nov 18, 2009 | Afghanistan, Politics, Sensemaking
by Steven R. Corman A colleague in the UK military recently sent an e-mail remarking on the brewing controversy in the UK about casualties from the war in Afghanistan. Growing numbers of citizens are witnessing “repatriations” of dead soldiers, and Prime...
by goodall | Oct 7, 2009 | Afghanistan, Defense Dept., Government, Media, Narrative, Obama, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Bud Goodall One of the important challenges of President Obama’s administration is to sell the continuation of our “overseas contingency operation” (or perhaps FATAVE) in Afghanistan to an increasingly disenchanted audience at home and abroad. But...