by zen | Dec 30, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] A Facebook friend with an astute comment pointed me toward this Wall Street Journal article by Joe Rago on the mission of General John Allen, USMC as “Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter...
by Hidetoshi Azuma | Oct 10, 2014 | Monitor
ASP CEO Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, USMC (Ret) appeared in the panel, “Climate conversation: National security and climate change” at the Climate Week NYC on September 22, 2014. Moderated by Kathleen Frangione, the panel discussed how militaries...
by dtrombly | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
When Egyptian rioters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, raising the black banners (and bizarrely enough, some were hiding behind Guy Fawkes’s now ubiquitous visage), the news was bad enough. A handful of well-financed cranks, advancing a deluded and hateful but...
by J.ScottShipman | Aug 30, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] Since the original post of “No one is really listening, they are just pretending,” there are indications that pretending may actually be doing institutional harm. The US Naval Institue recently sponsored the Joint Warfighting...
by zen | Aug 23, 2012 | Monitor
It appears that the Pentagon no longer intends to educate the most talented members of the officer corps to think strategically. I say this because the status of the premier professional military education institutions – the war colleges and NDU – have...
