Center for Strategic Communication

Narco-cartels as MBAs Doing 4GW

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]   Yale organizational behaviorist Rodrigo Canales has an interesting talk on the Narco-insurgency in Mexico ( which he correctly sees as having been as lethal as Syria’s civil war). While this won’t be...

An Absurd Column by Walter Pincus

[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...

Celebrating Orwell Day on ZP

[ by Charles Cameron — 1984 comes to Venezuela? ] . I had just finished posting the somewhat Orwellian DoubleQuote above and a set of quotes from Biblical and Qur’anic sources in my welcoming comments on Adam Elkus‘s inaugural post here, which itself...

The Myhrvold Report and Understanding Strategic Threats

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Several weeks ago, Cheryl Rofer wrote an important post analyzing the report “Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action” by Microsoft billionaire, venture capitalist, theoretical mathematician and cookbook author, Dr. Nathan...

Is Grand Strategy Democratic?

[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...