Center for Strategic Communication

The Myhrvold Report and Understanding Strategic Threats

by | Oct 7, 2013 | Monitor

[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...

Vlahos: Forty years of the Fighter Mafia

by | Sep 25, 2013 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski a.k.a “zen”] Kelly Vlahos, the often sharp-penned defense columnist at The American Conservative, has written an excellent tribute to Colonel John Boyd and his Acolytes: 40 years of the Fighter Mafia ….Boyd and Christie started the...

Bomb Syria?

by | Aug 29, 2013 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] There is much ado about a prospective Western (i.e. American) aerial campaign to bomb the Iranian allied Alawite-Baathist dictatorship Syria over use of chemical weapons against primarily al Qaida allied Sunni Islamist...

Abedin the Irreplaceable? My Eye

by | Aug 26, 2013 | Monitor

By Patricia H Kushlis You have to hand it to Senator Grassley for challenging the State Department’s claim that Hillary Clinton’s trip planner and scheduler, Huma Abedin had expertise that was “irreplaceable” and that as a consequence, she was worthy of a contract as...