Center for Strategic Communication

Grass Hoppers and Frost

by | May 5, 2013 | Monitor

[from Ellen Greer Rees, compiled by Helen Thackeray Rees Berger, modern day arrangement by Lynn C. Rees] On September 22, 1859, Edmund Rees, wife Margaret, and their five children ages 12-18 months (the 12-year old was my great-great grandfather) arrived in Great Salt...

Sixty Years after Stalin

by | Mar 6, 2013 | Monitor

Sixty years ago one of the greatest monsters in history, a mass-murderer of tens of millions many times over, the yellow-eyed, “Kremlin mountaineer”  breathed his last. We live, deaf to the land beneath us, Ten steps away no one hears our speeches, All we...

Strategy, Power and Diffusion

by | Nov 19, 2012 | Monitor

“….and therefore, two kinds of reactions are possible on the defending side, depending whether the attacker is to perish by the sword or by his own exertions.                                                                – Carl von Clausewitz,  On War...

Does Culture Trump Strategy?

by | Nov 1, 2012 | Monitor

The always interesting John Hagel tweeted a link recently to an old post at  Mill’s-Scofield Innovanomics, a blog run by a business strategist and consultant with a science background, Deb Mills-Scofield. Summer’s Trump Cards  ….Culture Trumps Strategy:...