by Lynn C. Rees | Mar 5, 2014 | Monitor
[exhumed by Lynn C. Rees] If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble but neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power. – Theodore Roosevelt One of the great...
by Lynn C. Rees | Feb 26, 2014 | Monitor
[belatedly acknowledged by Lynn C. Rees] Here’s strategy at its most concrete. Of all human imposed constants in American strategy, this is the most constant: Russia is the only threat on earth that can destroy the United States of America in hours. Though this...
by zen | Jun 17, 2013 | Monitor
Alexander The Great by Robin Lane Fox Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA by Randall Woods The first, was one of the works cited by Paul Cartledge in his own biography of Alexander the Great. Fox is an eminent...
by Charles Cameron | May 31, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — mostly about a fascinating quote from Martin Luther King ] . . Let’s start with the Code of Hammurabi, 196-97: If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. If he break another man’s bone, his bone shall be...
by Charles Cameron | May 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an Ayatollah’s video take-down of the Grand Mufti ] . Today’s latest news from the Long War Journal is titled Egyptian jihadists call for attacks in Shiite countries and opens with the paragraph: Twenty Egyptian jihadists have...
