by Charles Cameron | Jun 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — where brute reality & instinct collide head-on with morality & military professionalism ] . ** I’ve been taking various MOOCs recently — online courses from places like the University of Leiden, the START program...
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...
by Charles Cameron | May 28, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — following a lead from Adam Elkus, a little more on the (Hindu) theological side of the Trinity test ] . ** WHen Oppenheimer saw the first nuclear fireball — apart from those supposedly recorded in legend, the sun in the sky, and...
by zen | May 11, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War by Steven Pressfield This just arrived hot off the presses on my doorstep yesterday, courtesy of Steve and in terms of writing, The Lion’s Gate appears to...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 19, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — also the battle of Gaixia, 200 BCE, with an echo late in the Korean War — and a tip of the hat to Emlyn ] . Kagemusha, the flute call: ** There’s a sequence near the start of Akria Kurosawa‘s masterpiece, Kagemusha, when...
