Center for Strategic Communication

Sibling pea rivalry? So same, so very different

by | Jul 24, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — a battle of the hashtags re the Chibok schoolgirls, with some background first, and an aside re Carl Jung afterwards ] . ** I have talked about what I like to call “sibling pea rivalry” here before: we’re up against the...

Still center of the burning world

by | May 19, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — a bookish Brit myself, I could easily see myself in either one of these pictures ] . One trouble with my DoubleQuotes format is that it conforms any images or texts to its own size: there are times when a larger font size in text —...

Of a flag and the blood of martyrs

by | May 10, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — how, where and why the name, the map, and the flag merge into reality — Gregory Bateson to the rescue ] . I am indebted for this screengrab to Phillip Smyth, whose recent Singing Hizballah’s Tune in Manama: Why Are Bahrain’s...

Commentary on Politics and Strategy

by | Apr 17, 2014 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Infinity Journal has a good article by eminent Clausewitzian strategist Colin Gray on the interrelationship of politics and strategy (free registration required): Politics, Strategy and the Stream of Time ….Second,...