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 | Feb 20, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Zero Dark Thirty & Manhunt, fact and fiction, that old saw about who it is that gets to write history, thence onwards to theology & the arts, von Balthasar & Tolkien, winding up watching UK & US versions of House of...
by zen | Jan 25, 2013 | Monitor
The Center for Combating Terrorism at West Point released a report on domestic terrorism that raised hackles for a number of reasons. Despite the dismissals of liberal political pundits, the reasons for objections to the CTC report are legitimate but they did not need...
by zen | Dec 8, 2012 | Monitor
A quick note. There’s a provocative article at SWJ by a USAF Lt Col., Jill Long that attempted to pose an alternative definition of war and Jason Fritz at Inkspots has written a tough rebuttal; both are worth reading: Jill Long – What is War? A New Point...
by zen | Sep 3, 2012 | Monitor
There is quite a buzz going in mil and defense blogger circles over the recent op-ed savaging in The American Conservative by Kelley Vlahos regarding Dr. John Nagl and COIN. Unfortunately for Vlahos, little of it that I have seen online or privately is favorable...