by zen | Aug 9, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski – a.k.a. “zen”] Grand strategy in 1941 A very interesting article at Small Wars Journal by Captain Sean F.X. Barrett, USMC on the state of contemporary grand strategy. Definitely worth the time to read the whole thing:, but I am...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jun 14, 2013 | Monitor
[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees] Sigh What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it? Follow the money. The Aemilii Paulii called him “Boy“: Boy [Boy]…was one of the 1,000 Achaean nobles who were transported to Rome as hostages in 167...
by zen | Feb 3, 2013 | Monitor
An excellent op-ed in the Washington Post by Small Wars Journal editor and author of War, Welfare and Democracy, Peter J. Munson An America Cramped by Defensiveness by Peter J. Munson ….Since I returned home, a darkness has grown in me as both I and our...
by zen | Jan 14, 2013 | Monitor
Friend of the blog, commenter L.C. Rees, likes to point out that one of the most important part of a grand strategy, particularly one that is maintained despite evidence of being a geopolitical failure, are the domestic political effects that work to the advantage of...
by zen | Dec 27, 2012 | Monitor
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Photo credit: The New York Times Longtime reader and blogfriend Eddie Beaver sent me a link to an article by NYT columnist, Ross Douthat. In my view, Douthat has written a fairly important observation of a political dynamic...
