Center for Strategic Communication

The learning is looped

[ by Charles Cameron — Ts learn from CTs learn from Ts learn fro.. ] . btw, this is a special format doublequote, yeah? ** Brachman and McCants note in the conclusion to Stealing Al-Qa’ida’s Playbook: Jihadi ideologues closely follow Western thought...

Sanctified payback, blowback

[ by Charles Cameron — so IS is using waterboarding? meditating on copycattism as a jihadist strategy ] . ** Here’s the basic news, from Adam Goldman and Julie Tate, Captives held by Islamic State were waterboarded, in the Washington Post today: At least...

Gaza symmetries and asymmetries

[ by Charles Cameron — “hatred of the other” viewed as a cognitive matter, and Richard Landes on the capacity for self-criticism ] . Credit: Amir Schiby ** Nicholas Kristof has a post today for the NYT Sunday Review, Who’s Right and Wrong in the...