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 | Jul 17, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Dr. Chet Richards had some kind words to say about my review of American Spartan the other day and added some Boydian strategic analysis to the saga of Major Jim Gant to boot: Zen Pundit on American Spartan ….As...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — with thanks to Netflix and David Simon, and the same with Don Vandergriff, Secretary Gates and Boyd himself ] . In the second season of The Wire aka “the Great American Novel for Television“, first episode, Ebb Tide, Detective...
by zen | May 21, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] Chet Richards had an intriguing post at Slightly East of New on the implications of developments in quantum mechanics for Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop which was itself rooted in Boyd’s explorations of physics:...
by zen | 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...
