by Lynn C. Rees | Jan 9, 2015 | Monitor
January 8, 1815, 200 years ago today, the British Empire was sentenced to oblivion. As Andrew Jackson killed the infernal Bank of the United States, a frustrated Congressman, opposed to Jackson, jotted down his thoughts. The first jot was draft of a resolution...
by zen | May 14, 2014 | Monitor
Zen here – we would like to give a warm welcome to Stephanie Chenault, with her first guest post at ZP! : [ by Stephanie Chenault] “Violence and bloodshed can never have morally good results” – The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare Saving South Sudan...
by zen | Sep 2, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea has had an excellent series of COIN interviews at SWJ and this is one of the more important ones: Reflections on the “Counterinsurgency Decade”: Small Wars Journal Interview with General David H....
by zen | May 28, 2013 | Monitor
4GW theory has always attracted overenthusiasts and raging haters ever since the concept emerged way back in 1989, so debates about the merit of 4GW are nothing new; in fact, the arguments became so routine that they had largely gone sterile years ago. After T.X....
by zen | Apr 19, 2013 | Monitor
Another installment of Octavian Manea’s excellent COIN interview series at SWJ. This one focuses on social science and varieties of insurgency: Breaking Down “Hearts and Minds”: The Power of Individual Causal Mechanisms in an Insurgency ….OM: In your...