by zen | Nov 6, 2012 | Monitor
Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy by John R. Hale “I cannot tune a harp or play a lyre, but I know how to make a small city great.” – Themistocles Nautical archaeologist Dr. John R. Hale, an expert on bronze...
by zen | Aug 31, 2012 | Monitor
Professor Harvey C. Mansfield of Harvard University and a fellow at the Hoover Institution is famous for his scholarship on classical political philosophy (I often recommend his edition on Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy) as well as his provocative commentary...
by zen | Jul 29, 2012 | Monitor
Some astute observations on COIN practice from the founder of Executive Outcomes, Eeben Barlow: ….Governments, despite often being the prime reason why an insurgency starts, are often only too keen to make the armed forces responsible for establishing workable...
by zen | Jul 10, 2012 | Monitor
I previously made note of the emergence of an authoritarian Creepy-state element in American government, enjoying bipartisan popularity with this era’s predominantly Boomer elite politicians, CEOs and academic activists. Largely because this growing surveillance...
