by Charles Cameron | Oct 20, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — high risk furniture — a single tweet with linked explanation, plus two sets of tweets I’d like to see further explained, explored and examined ] . First, a single tweet from Max Fisher with a catchy title and link, where the...
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”:...
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 8, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] I have a new piece up at the excellent War on the Rocks site that is oriented towards both history and contemporary policy Some Excerpts: A New Nixon Doctrine: Strategy for a Polycentric World ….Asia was only the...
