by zen | Feb 22, 2014 | Monitor
William Lind had a very important piece regarding an extraordinarily ill-considered move by the Navy brass: The Navy Commits Intellectual Seppuku The December, 2013 issue of the Naval Institute’s Proceedings contains an article, “Don’t Say Goodbye to Intellectual...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Syria, yes, but with a focus on networks, tensions, mapping, and understanding ] . Binary logic is a poor basis for foreign policy, as Tukhachevskii said on Small Wars Council’s Syria under Bashir Assad: crumbling now? thread,...
by Lynn C. Rees | Aug 12, 2013 | Monitor
[by Lynn C. Rees] Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew bureaucracy: “You know, I’m a juggler, and I never let my right hand know what my left hand does.” Uncle Theodore As in many aspects of FDR’s life, his wife’s uncle was a model. As...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 4, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the four goats go with the woman, the cow called Bessie belongs with Hiyakawa’s Ladder of Abstraction ] . ** My friend the anthropologist Peter van der Werff recently wrote this paragraph about a woman he met in India: The very poor...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 2, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — forms & patterns, pattern recognition & creative leaps, creative leaps & connecting dots, connecting dots & node-and-edge mapping — node-and-edge mapping, link charts and Sembl-HipBone games ] . . There’s no...
