by Charles Cameron | Jun 2, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Phillip Smyth get into role ] . The United States Institute of Peace is holding what it terms a PeaceGame today and tomorrow: The current PeaceGame series is tackling one of the timeliest and most...
by Charles Cameron | May 21, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — following up on Browsing in bin Laden’s library ] . Marcy Wheeler at Salon reports of the ODNI’s Bin Laden’s Bookshelf (expanded form, .pdf) that “the categorization imposed by ODNI” consists “largely of...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 16, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in real estate it’s location, location, location — in thought space it’s context, context, context ] . Timothy Furnish offers us context for the newly released video of Islamic State beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 6, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — because the subtler games are more interesting ] . ** It’s the mind that plays the game that interests me. Why? Because what little I know of van Riper has to do with the war game he more or less closed down by sending a flotilla of...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — skip straight to the last three sections if you want the meat without the fruit & nuts ] . I didn’t know that football hooligans were against salafists when I put together this DoubleQuote in a free moment yesterday — I...