Center for Strategic Communication

The Myhrvold Report and Understanding Strategic Threats

by | Oct 7, 2013 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Several weeks ago, Cheryl Rofer wrote an important post analyzing the report “Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action” by Microsoft billionaire, venture capitalist, theoretical mathematician and cookbook author, Dr. Nathan...

Ronfeldt’s In-Depth Review of America 3.0

by | Sep 23, 2013 | Monitor

   David Ronfeldt, RAND strategist and theorist has done a deep two-part  review of America 3.0 over at his Visions from Two Theories blog. Ronfeldt has been spending the last few years developing his TIMN analytic framework (Tribes, Institutions [hierarchical],...

Elites at Cross Purposes

by | Jul 15, 2013 | Monitor

[recycled by Lynn C. Rees] Vertical conflict, where non-elite rises against elite, is a strong, ancient, and obsessive current of fear that flows through political thought. Only elite had surplus time to craft political thought. Hence their antagonism toward vertical...

For the Fourth of July: The Once and Future Republic?

by | Jul 4, 2013 | Monitor

Ahem….”I told you so“. “Congress intended to allow the intelligence communities to access targeted information for specific investigations. How can every call that every American makes or receives be relevant to a specific investigation?”            ...