by Charles Cameron | Mar 30, 2016 | Monitor
[ Last week, Zen hosted Pete Turner’s guest post, PRT and State Department Ignorance Fails Us All. Here is part 2 of that article — posted by Charles Cameron for Zen ] . ** Last week I wrote about the tragedy of Anne Smedinghoff, who died on a patrol in...
by zen | Mar 21, 2016 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski / “zen“] Anne Smedinghoff ZP is pleased to bring you a guest post by Pete Turner, co-host of The Break it Down Show and is an advocate of better, smarter, transition operations. Turner has...
by zen | Jun 12, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Pete Turner of The Break it Down Show had a powerful post that encapsulated what is wrong with the American approach to intervention in foreign societies, both in terms of our aid and development programs as well as COIN...
by J.ScottShipman | Jan 13, 2015 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] Last Friday night at the U.S. Naval Academy, retired Navy Captain Henry “Jerry” Hendrix and Commander Bryan McGrath debated the future of the aircraft carrier. My wife and I were fortunate to attend. Given the pressure placed on the...
by Matthew Wallin | Dec 16, 2014 | Monitor
Forget the year ahead. Successful public diplomacy planning for 2015 must take into account 2016, 2017, 2018, and the decades to come. In 2014, the myriad challenges the United States faces in the public diplomacy (PD) field mounted and still continue to grow. Many of...
