by zen | Feb 18, 2014 | Monitor
As I mentioned previously, I needed to make a more substantive reply to Victor Allen’s claims for R2P. I am very tardy in doing so, for which I apologize to Mr. Allen but better late than not at all. While addressing some of Victor’s specific points, I...
by zen | Feb 7, 2014 | Monitor
I thought I would call the attention of the readership to a debate that has been ricocheting around different social media platforms on R2P ( “Responsibility to Protect“). I have dealt with the topic several times in the past, related to the ideas of...
by zen | Jan 10, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Independent has a short, quasi-sensationalist, article featuring historian Margaret MacMillan discussing what is likely to become the first pop academic cottage industry of 2014….making historical analogies about...
by zen | Nov 14, 2013 | Monitor
Chinese Navy [by Mark Safranski, a.k. a. “zen”] The editors of the excellent War of the Rocks invited me to post a short rebuttal to the op-ed “How Not to Go to War With China”, by Scott Cheney-Peters, which appears in their “Hasty Ambush”...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 6, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — with regard to Mothana: the voice of sanity is not easily heard in the asylum ] . Here’s most everything you need to know about the complexities of the Middle East, spelled out in two simple war games: Sources: McCain plays poker...
