Center for Strategic Communication

For the Fourth of July: The Once and Future Republic?

by | Jul 4, 2013 | Monitor

Ahem….”I told you so“. “Congress intended to allow the intelligence communities to access targeted information for specific investigations. How can every call that every American makes or receives be relevant to a specific investigation?”            ...

Heavy breathing on the line: Uniform disbelief

by | Jun 29, 2013 | Monitor

[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees] Sigh What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it? Once upon a time… During my first year’s encampment General Scott visited West Point, and reviewed the cadets. With his commanding figure, his quite...

Moral Degeneration in the Crucible of War

by | Jun 12, 2013 | Monitor

  The recent post on Is 4GW Dead? stirred a great deal of interest, so I would like to extend the discussion on a point that that is critical not only for those who have responsibility for conducting military campaigns, but for statecraft and policy as well. One...

Are Insurgencies “Antifragile”?

by | May 16, 2013 | Monitor

I have been reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s latest book,  Antifragile . It’s a highly intriguing book and I will give it a full review soon, but Taleb’s core concept of antifragility is important  and lends itself to wide application. Here’s...