by zen | Jan 30, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] We at ZP would like to thank Colonel Stan Coerr for his permission to reprint this essay, written on the eve of his retirement last July, after a quarter century of of military service in the Marine Corps Reserve and on...
by zen | Jan 13, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] I have a new article up at Pragati: The Indian National Interest. A review of Warrior Diplomat by Michael G. Waltz Diplomatic Warfare? ….Waltz, now the president of Metis Solutions, brings to the table a powerful...
by zen | Jan 4, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] T. Greer at Scholar’s Stage had an outstanding post on Sun Tzu and his classic The Art of War the other day in which I learned a number of things that were new to me, which is the best kind of blog post! The Radical...
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 zen | Nov 21, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Regretfully, I was unable to attend the Boyd & Beyond 2014 Conference this year. Had I been there, I would have seen Bill Lind speaking on the topic that he and a number of military officers raised a quarter-century...