by zen | Sep 18, 2012 | Monitor
SWJ Blog has a new post up with an important and all too timely article on transition operations whose authors include an amigo of mine, Pete Turner, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. Turner will also be one of the featured speakers at the Boyd & Beyond...
by zen | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
As you probably already know, the US Embassy in Cairo Egypt was stormed today by Islamists supposedly angry about a video on Youtube supposedly made or endorsed by anti-Muslim Quran-burner and bigot Rev. Terry Jones. The embassy, deliberately left without sufficient...
by zen | Sep 10, 2012 | Monitor
“Clausewitz wants us to accept the practical reality that these dynamic forces are ever-present and constantly interacting in the everyday world….” I just finished reading a working paper by Professor Christopher Bassford he has posted at...
by zen | Aug 22, 2012 | Monitor
Earlier this year, milblogs had much discussion regarding “toxic leaders” – so-called “leaders” who in command epitomized a bullying, negative, destructive, egocentric, “boss from hell” that compromised missions, institutional...
by zen | Aug 20, 2012 | Monitor
The Master and the Minion The Russian girl-punk rock band Pussy Riot has done something with their protest at Christ the Savior Cathedral that prior cases of oppression, election-fraud, corruption and murder of Putin’s critics by agents of the siloviki regime...