by AdamElkus | Nov 1, 2013 | Monitor
(by Adam Elkus) Over at The National Interest, Paul Pillar diagnoses America with an “amnesia” about intelligence. The US, like Guy Pearce’s amnesiac character in Memento, does not perceive that it is caught in a larger oscillating cycle: Attitudes...
by zen | Oct 25, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Violent Image by Neville Bolt I have a new book review up at Pragati this morning: Lethal ideas and insurgent memory ….One expert who does acknowledge a paradigmatic shift and posits a powerful explanatory...
by zen | Oct 10, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski AKA “zen”] Octavian Manea has two excellent interviews up at SWJ; for those interested in COIN theory and history, these are must-reads: Learning From Today’s Crisis of Counterinsurgency SWJ: What is the relevance of post-9/11...
by zen | Sep 2, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea has had an excellent series of COIN interviews at SWJ and this is one of the more important ones: Reflections on the “Counterinsurgency Decade”: Small Wars Journal Interview with General David H....
by zen | Jul 28, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Since Pakistan is now attempting to get its victory over the United States in Afghanistan formally ratified, now seemed to be a good time to reflect on the performance of American statesmen, politicians and senior generals....
