by Charles Cameron | Apr 23, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — juxtaposition offers us a potent way to connect “equal but opposite” dots ] . Jimmy Chen at HTMLGiant captures the griefs and joyful reliefs of war by juxtaposing two war photos that had separately become iconic — and...
by J.ScottShipman | Aug 24, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] The First Battle, Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam, by Otto J. Lehrack, Lt.Col., USMC, Ret. This is an older book, but important. A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a good friend, Bruce. Bruce is a Vietnam...
by zen | Jul 23, 2012 | Monitor
“The horror! The horror! Charles Cameron sparked a discussion with his doublequotes post on two colonels, the late strategist John Boyd and the fictional monster, Walter Kurtz from Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Vietnam War film homage to Joseph...
by zen | Jul 19, 2012 | Monitor
Blogfriend, Dr. Venkat Rao had an intriguing post at Tempo (his other blog) on which I want to make a few, relatively disjointed, observations: Positioning Moves versus Melee Moves My general philosophy of decision-making de-emphasizes the planning/execution...
by goodall | Oct 7, 2009 | Afghanistan, Defense Dept., Government, Media, Narrative, Obama, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Bud Goodall One of the important challenges of President Obama’s administration is to sell the continuation of our “overseas contingency operation” (or perhaps FATAVE) in Afghanistan to an increasingly disenchanted audience at home and abroad. But...
