Center for Strategic Communication

The best war game is a library of windows

by | Jul 3, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — Escher, Borges, simulating the future, wargames, A Pattern Language, Sembl ] . MC Escher, Relativity. Ridiculous phrase, a library of windows. Unless you think, as I do, of books as windows onto different worlds, in which case it makes a...

Mali: a tale of two tweets

by | Jul 3, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — Timbuctu, Bamiyan, iconoclasm, dissolution of the monasteries, conceptual mapping, ethics, aesthetics, Venice ] . credit: Alidade, see below . Zen called the Ansar al-Din “The Taliban of the Mahgreb” today, pointing to an...