by Charles Cameron | Aug 13, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — discussing the Iran deal, Gershom Gorenberg introduces me to some Israeli slang ] . Source: izquotes.com ** Gershom Gorenberg is a friendly acquaintance from Center for Millennial Studies days, and his book The End of Days: Fundamentalism...
by zen | Jun 12, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Pete Turner of The Break it Down Show had a powerful post that encapsulated what is wrong with the American approach to intervention in foreign societies, both in terms of our aid and development programs as well as COIN...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 23, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron – unclear language gives an out-of-focus snapshot of reality, estimative language hopes to facilitate precision ] . Take a quick look, then skip to the rest of this post & come back later. Unless you already know this thing by heart, and...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 7, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — where would we be without our digital devices, minds & memories? ] . Two converging thoughts, the first from John Robb at Global Guerrillas: Over the weekend, ISIS threatened the life of Jack Dorsey, a co-founder and Chairman of...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — nutshell version: strategy should precede tactics as contemplation precedes action ] . ** Let me grab a quick quote from page 4 of Dr. Rob Johnston‘s Analytic Culture in the US Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study, and...
