Center for Strategic Communication

Hipbone’s Games, Emlyn’s critique

by | Mar 30, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles and Emlyn Cameron — my thousandth ZP post, and his first — in which my son schools me in making my games more responsive to the requirements of decision-support ] . Alexander Calder, "Yellow Sail", 1950, Weatherspoon Art Museum,...

Lind on “the Navy’s Intellectual Seppuku”

by | Feb 22, 2014 | Monitor

William Lind had a very important piece regarding an extraordinarily ill-considered move by the Navy brass: The Navy Commits Intellectual Seppuku  The December, 2013 issue of the Naval Institute’s Proceedings contains an article, “Don’t Say Goodbye to Intellectual...

Thoughts on CNAS “Preparing for War in the Robotic Age”

by | Jan 24, 2014 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] My reading at CNAS, which had once been frequent, declined with the waning of the Abu Muqawama blog. While formerly I usually scanned through CNAS reports on a regular basis after reading what Exum and his commenters had...

Sunday surprise 5: once in a blues moon

by | Sep 22, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — time for some more surprises, this time in stone and jazz — plus an afterimage of WWI ] . First, a master-class in the craft of the blues: Second, the moon: And third, because of the violence in Kenya, Pakistan, Syria … get me...