by zen | Mar 28, 2014 | Monitor
Dr. Chet Richards is having seconds thoughts about “4GW is dead“: When I proclaimed the death of 4GW in this very blog about a year ago? Of course not. But there are disturbing developments, at least in its decline-of-the-state/road-warrior variant (aka,...
by zen | Mar 24, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] A Sinocentric view of the maritime world courtesy of The Policy Tensor (hat tip Historyguy 99) An amigo who is an expert on China pointed me toward a couple of links last weekend. Here is the first: Japan-China COLD WAR 8...
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 Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of Ozymandias, as Shelley’s story-teller friend reminds us, all that remains are “vast and trunkless legs of stone” ] . I am very fond of the long view, in which each of us becomes (physical) dust and enters (mental)...
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...