by Charles Cameron | Mar 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — leaping as far out of the box from Education: on Engineers, the Navy — and excuse me, Jihad as I can manage ] . Director / Actor Jean Renoir as Octave in Rules of the Game ** Let me dive directly in at the deep end. If, as Keith Oatley...
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 | Jan 14, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — capturing another item now vanished from its original URL ] . Aother repost of a web-page I occasionally want to link to, but which has disappeared into the mists, saved only by the Internet Archive, god bless ‘em. This second one...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 11, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — another runup to the glass bead game ] . Below you can read my submission to the wonderful 3 Quarks Daily “web aggregator” site as a candidate to join their regular Monday blogging team — it didn’t even make their...
by zen | Nov 2, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] If the symbol of the 20th century insurgent was the AK-47 and a red banner, his 21st century counterpart may someday be recognized by the suicide belt and the “homemade tank”. Irregular fighters have always...
