by zen | Feb 19, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / “zen“] Torn from the pages of Small Wars Journal….. Global Radical Islamist Insurgency: al Qaeda and Islamic State Networks Focus Vol. II 2012-2014Â edited by Dave Dilegge and Robert Bunker New and looking to be very useful....
by Charles Cameron | Jan 18, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — slowed down by health issues, but getting there slowly ] . A quick announcement from Tim Furnish: The second of my complementary volumes on Islam and Islamic world issues is finally up on Amazon, albeit at this point only in Kindle format....
by zen | Dec 28, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] My usual yuletide haul of books received and purchased…. The Last of the President’s Men by Bob Woodward Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 29, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a couple of grace-notes while I’m working on my review of Will McCants‘ book, The ISIS Apocalypse ] . One: My first note concerns the elegant way in which McCants‘ view of the changing state of IS eschatology as it has...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 26, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — conceptual echoes in a PK Dick bio-flick ] . ** I have just been watching Mark Steensland’s movie, The Gospel According to PK Dick, and a couple of fine parallelisms – echoes, really – struck me. I’m going to start with one quote from the...
