by zen | Dec 27, 2012 | Monitor
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Photo credit: The New York Times Longtime reader and blogfriend Eddie Beaver sent me a link to an article by NYT columnist, Ross Douthat. In my view, Douthat has written a fairly important observation of a political dynamic...
by zen | Dec 21, 2012 | Monitor
Hat tip for a strong recommendation from Adam Elkus: Josh Foust has a very sensible piece up about the seemingly endless furor about “killer drones” (we never called our warplanes “Killer F-16′s” or guided weapons “killer cruise...
by zen | Jul 29, 2012 | Monitor
Some astute observations on COIN practice from the founder of Executive Outcomes, Eeben Barlow: ….Governments, despite often being the prime reason why an insurgency starts, are often only too keen to make the armed forces responsible for establishing workable...
by zen | Jul 10, 2012 | Monitor
I previously made note of the emergence of an authoritarian Creepy-state element in American government, enjoying bipartisan popularity with this era’s predominantly Boomer elite politicians, CEOs and academic activists. Largely because this growing surveillance...
by Peter J. Munson | Jul 2, 2012 | Monitor
By: Peter J. Munson Stemming from his must-read book, an important discussion about Helmand, Kandahar, and America's flawed attempt to save Afghanistan.
