by zen | Jul 14, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Mark Safranski – a.k.a “zen”] A remarkably blunt article on SF/SOF (“special forces” is being used as an umbrella term for both) in the context of policy and strategy, from the perspective of an emerging great power by LTG Prakosh...
by zen | Apr 29, 2013 | Monitor
Anne-Marie Slaughter had a short but bombastic WaPo op-ed on Syria and chemical weapons use that requires comment: Obama should remember Rwanda as he weighs action in Syria ….The Clinton administration did not want to acknowledge that genocide was taking place...
by zen | Jan 30, 2013 | Monitor
The Obama administration, though they would not characterize it as such nor have much desire to acknowledge it at all, have attempted a strategic detente with the “moderate” elements of political Islam. This policy has not been entirely consistent; Syria,...
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...
by zen | Oct 18, 2012 | Monitor
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper Influential ABC News Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper has a new book coming out in November entitled The Outpost, about the battle of Outpost Keating in 2009 that the Taliban lost but inflicted...
