Center for Strategic Communication

Uways and his significance

by | May 20, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — exploring the importance to both Shias and Sufis of Uways Al Qarni, and of the Uwaysi transmission in Sufism ] . Uways, the destruction of whose shrine I described today in the first of two posts, was the man to whom the Prophet Muhammad...

Heavy breathing on the line: Boyd and the hare

by | Jun 23, 2013 | Monitor

[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...

Turkey and the unicorn

by | Jun 17, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — i don’t do much in the way of cat pics, so here’s a timely geopolitical unicorn for you ] . What with the Whole Wired World looking a bit both “1984″ and “Brave New” this week, and with Turkey clearly...

Love, Death, and Jihad by Pen and Sword

by | May 29, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — with Wagner and Abu Dujana as examples, the cognitive sting here is in the tail — the power of a double image to engage both emotion and insight ] . Love and death. ** The human mind thinks in parallelisms and oppositions. My lords,...