by zen | Dec 30, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] A Facebook friend with an astute comment pointed me toward this Wall Street Journal article by Joe Rago on the mission of General John Allen, USMC as “Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter...
by zen | Dec 25, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Knife Fights by John Nagl Jon and Pete of The Break it Down Show interview arch-COINdinista and former CNAS president turned educator, Dr. John Nagl. Pete, who is a deep believer in (and practitioner of)...
by zen | Nov 28, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] As I mentioned previously, I was invited to be a contributor to the new (and evolving) e-zine The Chicago Progressive where I will tackle much the same subjects that we do here, albeit for a general audience attuned...
by zen | Aug 6, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] John Robb had a cool post on the ultra-radical takfiri insurgency ISIS/ISIL and their self-proclaimed Sunni “Caliphate“, the Islamic State, whom he gave as an example of “the cockroaches of war”:...
by zen | May 14, 2014 | Monitor
Zen here – we would like to give a warm welcome to Stephanie Chenault, with her first guest post at ZP! : [ by Stephanie Chenault] “Violence and bloodshed can never have morally good results” – The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare Saving South Sudan...
