by zen | Jul 8, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] I have a new piece up at the excellent War on the Rocks site that is oriented towards both history and contemporary policy Some Excerpts: A New Nixon Doctrine: Strategy for a Polycentric World ….Asia was only the...
by zen | Apr 23, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Our Clausewitzian friend, Seydlitz89 commented on my recent post on politics and strategy and has a new one of his own that accurately frames a solution to the geopolitical disarray in which the United States finds itself...
by zen | Apr 17, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Infinity Journal has a good article by eminent Clausewitzian strategist Colin Gray on the interrelationship of politics and strategy (free registration required): Politics, Strategy and the Stream of Time ….Second,...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 22, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — moving from magic to sacrament and from word to world — with implications for the study of terrorism and torture ] . Roger Wagner, 1984: The Harvest Is the End of the World and the Reapers Are the Angels ** Tara Isabella Burton, in a...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — briefly picking up a strand from an earlier post & running with it ] . Some of the fish in the pool HipBone / Sembl swims in – slide credit Cath Styles, & h/t Derek Robinson** I just wanted to reiterate an Einstein quote...
