by zen | Nov 16, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper is featured in the latest issue of Infinity Journal where he gives a superb tutorial or grand strategy and operations. It should be required reading...
by zen | Sep 18, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Infinity Journal has an exclusive review up of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge campaign against HAMAS by LTC Ron Tira. Colonel Tira is the author of The Nature of War: Conflicting Paradigms and Israeli Military...
by zen | Sep 13, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea, Small Wars Journal’s interviewer par excellence, talks with retired USMC General Anthony Zinni: Reflections on the Modern Battlefield: A Discussion with General Anthony Zinni SWJ: You open your book...
by zen | Aug 29, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] ISIS or the Islamic State “Caliphate” is the focus of a great deal of discussion and demands for action from the United States – and also inaction – from many quarters. What is to be done? That is...
by zen | Aug 6, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] John Robb had a cool post on the ultra-radical takfiri insurgency ISIS/ISIL and their self-proclaimed Sunni “Caliphate“, the Islamic State, whom he gave as an example of “the cockroaches of war”:...