by zen | Sep 7, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea and SWJ are on something of a roll lately. Colonel T.X. Hammes (ret.) PhD is the respected author of the excellent The Sling and the Stone. If you have never read it, you should. The Fallacies of Big...
by zen | Jun 17, 2013 | Monitor
Alexander The Great by Robin Lane Fox Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA by Randall Woods The first, was one of the works cited by Paul Cartledge in his own biography of Alexander the Great. Fox is an eminent...
by zen | May 10, 2013 | Monitor
Adam Elkus has a lengthy and meaty post at Abu Muqawama, inspired by General Mattis, one that you should really read in full: The Mattis Book Club ….But while gaining an understanding of the nature of war is useful, there are a lot of things it won’t do....
by zen | Mar 6, 2013 | Monitor
Sixty years ago one of the greatest monsters in history, a mass-murderer of tens of millions many times over, the yellow-eyed, “Kremlin mountaineer” breathed his last. We live, deaf to the land beneath us, Ten steps away no one hears our speeches, All we...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 22, 2013 | Monitor
[ By Charles Cameron — cross-tagging some useful resources from natsec bloggers with another from a bright historian friend ] . . Daveed Gartenstein-Ross‘s Globe and Mail piece The War’s in Mali, But the Danger is International from almost a week ago gave...
