by zen | Mar 4, 2014 | Monitor
I have a new op-ed up this morning on the Crimean crisis over at War on the Rocks: Let’s Slow Roll Any Move Toward Crimean War II: One of the more curious implicit assumptions about the crisis in Ukraine is that the subsequent occupation of the Crimea by Russia...
by zen | Dec 26, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Walter Pincus, taking notes for the embattled bureaucrats of the creepy-state here: ‘Front-Page Rule’ is unprecedented in U.S. intelligence community ….“Accountability and secrecy” were two watchwords a former...
by Joas Wagemakers | Aug 23, 2013 | Monitor
As Cole Bunzel pointed out some time ago, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, the famous Jordanian radical Salafi scholar, has published several fatwas and other documents in the last few months. Cole mainly dealt with only two of al-Maqdisi’s recent publications, however,...
by zen | Aug 9, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski – a.k.a. “zen”] Grand strategy in 1941 A very interesting article at Small Wars Journal by Captain Sean F.X. Barrett, USMC on the state of contemporary grand strategy. Definitely worth the time to read the whole thing:, but I am...
by Ollie Engebretson | Aug 6, 2013 | Monitor
As the debate over supplying aid to the Syrian opposition continues, Jordan, the welcoming neighbor to the south, moves further and further towards socio-economic crisis. A major Non-NATO U.S. ally and important regional partner, Jordan has a distinct history of...
