Center for Strategic Communication

Elites at Cross Purposes

[recycled by Lynn C. Rees] Vertical conflict, where non-elite rises against elite, is a strong, ancient, and obsessive current of fear that flows through political thought. Only elite had surplus time to craft political thought. Hence their antagonism toward vertical...

Heavy breathing on the line: Uniform disbelief

[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees] Sigh What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it? Once upon a time… During my first year’s encampment General Scott visited West Point, and reviewed the cadets. With his commanding figure, his quite...

Heavy breathing on the line: Boyd and the hare

[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees] Sigh ? 1 ? ? Raises question ? ? 2 ? What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it? ? 3 ? Ask Colonel John Boyd, USAF (1927-1997)… ? 4 ? Namedrop John Boyd What do most respondants think? ? 5 ? ? 6 ? Uncritical...

Grass Hoppers and Frost

[from Ellen Greer Rees, compiled by Helen Thackeray Rees Berger, modern day arrangement by Lynn C. Rees] On September 22, 1859, Edmund Rees, wife Margaret, and their five children ages 12-18 months (the 12-year old was my great-great grandfather) arrived in Great Salt...