by zen | Nov 16, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper is featured in the latest issue of Infinity Journal where he gives a superb tutorial or grand strategy and operations. It should be required reading...
by zen | Aug 4, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Orientalist by Tom Reiss Some biographies are as much about the era or the milieu as the man. The Orientalist is one of them. This is not to say that Tom Reiss has written a bad book. On the contrary, it is an...
by zen | Jul 15, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen’] American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson When I first posted that I had received a review copy of American Spartan from Callie, it stirred a vigorous...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 28, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — matching aphorisms for a glimpse of contrasting worldviews — Western, Taliban, South Asian, African, ISIS ] ** Francesca Borri, writing for Al-Monitor under the title Behind the black flag: current, former ISIS fighters speak, is my...
by zen | Jun 16, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Adaptive Leadership Handbook: :Law Enforcement & Security by Fred Leland & Don Vandergriff The Adaptive Leadership Handbook is an unusual book. It is a work about thinking for men and women of action. It is an...
