by zen | Aug 5, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] GOP Front Runner, Donald J. Trump A friend sent an essay by the prolific IR scholar, Professor Angelo Codevilla that had been posted at Powerline Blog. It was good. For the unfamiliar, Codevilla often writes on national...
by Lynn C. Rees | Nov 15, 2014 | Monitor
John Francis Mercer Politics is the division of power. Or so it is axiomatic for me. Politics is also a market in violence-backed assets, with tribute, resource flows captured and secured by violence (or the threat thereof) being the most prized. Most political...
by Lynn C. Rees | Oct 15, 2014 | Monitor
[pre-acknowledged by Lynn C. Rees] Meet Edward Mandell House: Mr. House has a reputation for being wise and inscrutable. He was also nicknamed “Colonel” House. We need not refer to him by that nickname here. While Mr. House did have a name, he never...
by zen | Apr 12, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Colonel Keith Nightingale, was featured at Thomas Rick’s Best Defense blog ”future of war” series at Foreign Policy.com. It is a strong piece, well worth reading: The seven ingredients of highly...
by zen | Nov 13, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Reuters has begun a remarkable series on the economic dealings of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khameini who controls a staggering fortune of $ 95 billion dollars through a secretive fund Setad that expropriates...
