by Charles Cameron | May 12, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — “if wishes were horses” as the saying goes ] . The BBC made a point of showing a group of the schoolgirls in Boko Haram captivity in contrast with some of those who escaped… ** Here’s Col Pat Lang‘s assessment...
by Charles Cameron | May 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how, where and why the name, the map, and the flag merge into reality — Gregory Bateson to the rescue ] . I am indebted for this screengrab to Phillip Smyth, whose recent Singing Hizballah’s Tune in Manama: Why Are Bahrain’s...
by Charles Cameron | May 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — following up on Boko Haram “makes Kony look like child’s play” while continuing my explorations in stereocognition, along with two dazzling quotes about music ] . It happened to be the tweet from Elizabeth Pearson in the...
by Charles Cameron | May 7, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — some angles on Boko Haram ]. . Boko Haram is irreducibly complex, quoth Tehu Cole: I understand the impulse to "do something." But Boko Haram is irreducibly complex. Makes Kony look like child's play. http://t.co/Vv3pYiycqK...
by zen | Apr 17, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Infinity Journal has a good article by eminent Clausewitzian strategist Colin Gray on the interrelationship of politics and strategy (free registration required): Politics, Strategy and the Stream of Time ….Second,...
