Center for Strategic Communication

Loading up for Survival, Church and State

by | Aug 30, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — Merkel’s under attack for recommending Germans keep a two-week supply of food ] . Mormon faithful are exhorted by the First Presidency of their Church in a pamphlet titled All is safely gathered in “to prepare for adversity in...

Reminders, and other signs

by | Nov 22, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — the camps, theirs and ours, and nuking Mecca, with a pinch of Lynch ] . Here are the reminders.. ** These DoubleQuotes arose in the context of comments by Georgetown Syria specialist Marc Lynch, better known on the web as the blogger Abu...

The Freikorps Revival

by | Sep 14, 2015 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] One of the signs that the Westphalian state system was approaching its zenith was the gradual extinction of legal private warfare in Europe (and in America , east of the frontier). While this trend predated the French...

Al-Muhajiroun’s European Recruiting Pipeline

by | Aug 24, 2015 | Monitor

After a period of silence, a couple of new pieces, the first for the CTC Sentinel, West Point’s excellent counter-terrorism journal. This one looks at the pernicious influence of al Muhajiroun, Anjem Choudhary and Omar Bakri Mohammed’s group across Europe....