by zen | Feb 2, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski Recent cyber problems here at ZP (as well as work commitments) have left me with an enormous backlog of book-related posts and reviews with which to wade through this month, including...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an intriguing example of enantiodromia aka reversal or the hairpin bend ] . Let’s start with this tweet from Glenn Greenwald on September 11th 2013, a dozen years on from that tragic day: A coalition of current and former military,...
by zen | Jun 12, 2013 | Monitor
The recent post on Is 4GW Dead? stirred a great deal of interest, so I would like to extend the discussion on a point that that is critical not only for those who have responsibility for conducting military campaigns, but for statecraft and policy as well. One...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 16, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the difficulties that may be posed when “reading” graphics ] . ** The question I want to ask in this post is: how much can you safely read into a political cartoon? Here is the particular cartoon I have in mind: It was...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 10, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — east, west, music, espionage, pacifism, war, the Resistance, the Nazis, Dachau, and exceptional gallantry ] . A Muslim woman — born in Moscow of princely Indian paternal descent, her mother an American from Albuquerque, her father a...