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”:...
by zen | Jul 17, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Dr. Chet Richards had some kind words to say about my review of American Spartan the other day and added some Boydian strategic analysis to the saga of Major Jim Gant to boot: Zen Pundit on American Spartan ….As...
by zen | Jul 15, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen’] American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson When I first posted that I had received a review copy of American Spartan from Callie, it stirred a vigorous...
by zen | Jun 16, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Adaptive Leadership Handbook: :Law Enforcement & Security by Fred Leland & Don Vandergriff The Adaptive Leadership Handbook is an unusual book. It is a work about thinking for men and women of action. It is an...
by zen | Jun 10, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen’] American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson Over at Fred Leland’s LESC blog, friend of ZP, Major Don Vandergriff has spot-on reviewed the...