by J.ScottShipman | Oct 10, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] This is worth the 20 minutes. Strategy without clarity, isn’t. There is no clarity or strategy to our current problems in Afghanistan. “We have killed all the slow and stupid ones. But that means the ones that are left are totally...
by zen | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
As you probably already know, the US Embassy in Cairo Egypt was stormed today by Islamists supposedly angry about a video on Youtube supposedly made or endorsed by anti-Muslim Quran-burner and bigot Rev. Terry Jones. The embassy, deliberately left without sufficient...
by J.ScottShipman | Sep 10, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] Photo credit: Zenpundit A modified note from Stan Coerr: To All- We are looking forward to seeing everyone a month from now, on the morning of 12 October 2012 in Quantico. IF YOU ARE A SPEAKER: I need a positive response from you that...
by zen | Sep 3, 2012 | Monitor
There is quite a buzz going in mil and defense blogger circles over the recent op-ed savaging in The American Conservative by Kelley Vlahos regarding Dr. John Nagl and COIN. Unfortunately for Vlahos, little of it that I have seen online or privately is favorable...
by zen | Jul 12, 2012 | Monitor
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a foreign policy speech to Russia’s ambassadors and Foreign Ministry officials that is very much worth reading in context of his dispatch to Syria of a fleet of warships, including a battleship, to the modest Russian naval...
