by Charles Cameron | Aug 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Syria, yes, but with a focus on networks, tensions, mapping, and understanding ] . Binary logic is a poor basis for foreign policy, as Tukhachevskii said on Small Wars Council’s Syria under Bashir Assad: crumbling now? thread,...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 9, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — another angle on the whole idea of qualitative node-&-edge graphs for concept mapping ] . Image of a virus letting its DNA loose in a cell, from the Bjork app-game-song The other day I found myself re-reading a comment I’d made...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 4, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the four goats go with the woman, the cow called Bessie belongs with Hiyakawa’s Ladder of Abstraction ] . ** My friend the anthropologist Peter van der Werff recently wrote this paragraph about a woman he met in India: The very poor...
by zen | Jan 23, 2013 | Monitor
Small Wars Journal has published another edition of the excellent COIN interview series conducted by Octavian Manea. Here he interviews A.A. Cohen, author of Galula: The Life and Writings of the French Officer who Defined the Art of Counterinsurgency The Galula...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 18, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — math, modeling and mapping, in that strange zone where beauty meets understanding ] . The upper equation — Euler‘s — gets as tight and definitional as one can get, yet is profound in the way the greatest haiku are…...
