by Charles Cameron | Nov 25, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — when is a tweet not quite a fatwa? when it’s a tweet! ] . Ayatollah Khamenei's decree on Banning WMDs http://t.co/xsTIenb4rJ
#Iran #IranTalksOman pic.twitter.com/01VwBjjnoY — Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) November 12, 2014...
by zen | Jul 8, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] I have a new piece up at the excellent War on the Rocks site that is oriented towards both history and contemporary policy Some Excerpts: A New Nixon Doctrine: Strategy for a Polycentric World ….Asia was only the...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which I suggest that reality may be more like a river, our understandings more like canals ] . Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, "Moon of Enlightenment" from One Hundred Views of the Moon ** I read a couple of things this morning that...
by zen | Feb 18, 2014 | Monitor
As I mentioned previously, I needed to make a more substantive reply to Victor Allen’s claims for R2P. I am very tardy in doing so, for which I apologize to Mr. Allen but better late than not at all. While addressing some of Victor’s specific points, I...
by Lynn C. Rees | Dec 17, 2013 | Monitor
[approached by Lynn C. Rees] Scott’s comment gets me thinking: Truly two main paths present: passive (deter and encourage) and active (conquer, convert, capture, or contain) [via Jeremy and Hans Delbruck]… The strategist needs cognitive elasticity (Boyd would...
