by Charles Cameron | Mar 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — who is admittedly more of a mental treadmill kind of a guy ] . I have no, no, no idea whether this is, as it claims, video of an Al-Qaeda training camp fitness test or just — okay, way way more likely — a silly prank video...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a minor contribution to the discussion about STEM-to-stern education ] . Adm Grace Murray Hopper** I really don’t want to put too much weight on this — for one thing, John Boyd was, if Wiki is not mistaken, the possessor of a...
by zen | Sep 2, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea has had an excellent series of COIN interviews at SWJ and this is one of the more important ones: Reflections on the “Counterinsurgency Decade”: Small Wars Journal Interview with General David H....
by zen | Jul 28, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Since Pakistan is now attempting to get its victory over the United States in Afghanistan formally ratified, now seemed to be a good time to reflect on the performance of American statesmen, politicians and senior generals....
by zen | Apr 19, 2013 | Monitor
Another installment of Octavian Manea’s excellent COIN interview series at SWJ. This one focuses on social science and varieties of insurgency: Breaking Down “Hearts and Minds”: The Power of Individual Causal Mechanisms in an Insurgency ….OM: In your...
