by Charles Cameron | Oct 20, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on human obstinacy, a change of heart, and what seems to me a major piece from Res Militaris ] . There’s a pattern of backlash that occurs when you present people with facts that don’t fit their preconceptions — they...
by zen | Sep 17, 2013 | Monitor
Adam Elkus alerted me to an insightful op-ed by Dr. Antulio Echevarria of SSI: Op-Ed: Is Strategy Really A Lost Art? …. Instead, we need to rediscover the value of strategizing relative to the outcome, the product, an individual strategy. The hard truth is that...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — where paradox begets form in phrasing, redux ] . Here for your entertainment and entrainment are some further instances where the tweet doubles back on itself, bites its tail, or otherwise embodies some form of “form”...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an intriguing example of enantiodromia aka reversal or the hairpin bend ] . Let’s start with this tweet from Glenn Greenwald on September 11th 2013, a dozen years on from that tragic day: A coalition of current and former military,...
by zen | Aug 29, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] There is much ado about a prospective Western (i.e. American) aerial campaign to bomb the Iranian allied Alawite-Baathist dictatorship Syria over use of chemical weapons against primarily al Qaida allied Sunni Islamist...
