by zen | Oct 31, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] Strategy: A History by Sir Lawrence Freedman Out of the Mountains by David Kilcullen As I promised Professor Freedman a few weeks ago in the comments section, I ordered his book, Strategy: A History and it arrived...
by zen | Sep 30, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Working on a number of things, top priority among which is a cross-post for Nuclear Diner about the Myhrvold Report that Cheryl Rofer decisively shredded here last week. Cheryl and I have done some point-counterpoint and...
by zen | Sep 3, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Some “new” used books I picked up from Half-Price Books this holiday weekend…. War and Anti-War by Alvin and Heidi Toffler The Tofflers were among the most influential and prescient of the pop...
by zen | Jul 5, 2013 | Monitor
I have a new book review up at Pragati Magazine this morning, The Strategy Bridge:Theory for Practice by Colin S. Gray which is a must read book for any serious student of strategy. Pragati, which is a national interest and policy magazine for India is starting to...
by zen | Jun 30, 2013 | Monitor
Mussolini’s Italy:Life under the Fascist Dictatorship by by R. J. B. Bosworth Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott Been busy writing a book review and a long and serious post, so here is something more lighthearted and tangible in the meantime. Having...
