by zen | Mar 15, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Adam Elkus had a nice post on the sound and fury over the open letter by 47 Republican senators to the government of Iran, asserting Congressional prerogatives regarding contractual relations with in foreign powers:...
by zen | Mar 13, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] I have a new piece up at War on the Rocks ( which, by the way, is doing an important Indiegogo fundraising drive): THERE ARE NO TEA LEAVES TO READ ABOUT THE “MOSUL PLAN” A mostly forgotten Arab adversary of American...
by zen | Mar 6, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] General James N. “Mad Dog ” Mattis, USMC (ret.), the semi-legendary, no-nonsense, fighting general of our recent wars, beloved by his Marines, has accepted a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at the highly...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 12, 2015 | Monitor
by Joan Wadelton, Guest Contributor The Department of State’s administrative misdeeds have become increasingly serious, much more commonplace and disturbingly costly. The list of failures across the spectrum of management functions (by which I mean the...
by zen | Feb 10, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] “Alas, poor Clausewitz….” The Obama administration released its National Security Strategy last Friday, shepherded by the National Security Courtier, Susan Rice. Even by the increasingly mediocre...
