Center for Strategic Communication

The Controversial CTC Report

by | Jan 25, 2013 | Monitor

The Center for Combating Terrorism at West Point released a report on domestic terrorism that raised hackles for a number of reasons. Despite the dismissals of liberal political pundits, the reasons for objections to the CTC report are legitimate but they did not need...

“Sustaining” your Way to Serfdom as a Grand Strategy

by | 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...

The Future of the US-Moroccan Alliance

by | Sep 21, 2012 | Monitor

Morocco, the United States’ oldest ally, was not immune to the fervor that swept the Islamic world last week. Protests broke out in front of the US consulate in Casablanca over the film The Innocence of Muslims, which ignited popular uproar in almost every country in...

Pussy Riot V: Kasparov

by | Aug 21, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — the Garry Kasparov arrest ] . It isn’t chess. It isn’t, as we’d say in England, cricket. It besmirches the good name athletes like Arsen Galstyan brought Russia in the London Olympics. It is Garry Kasparov, arrested for...