Rethinking Security

At Infinity Journal, there’s a nice collection of articles about incorporating international relations/global studies into professional mil education and making it fit a focus on strategy. I particularly recommend one of the articles, which tackles the issue of…

UPDATE: A “soft rollout” version of my idea can be seen here. I plan to do a special entry for the formal rollout on Tuesday once spelling/grammar issues are cleaned up. Got enough interest to want to go through with it.

The House Select Committee on Benghazi will continue their absurd inquiry by questioning David Petraeus and Leon Panetta tomorrow. Meanwhile, Michael Bay’s new dramatization of the attacks will be…

So, in my last entry, I expressed my opinion about why I thought quantitative social science god (despite a lot of the harsh things I said, intellectual honesty obliges to me to note that Schrodt is the…

Phil Schrodt has an typically acerbic take on the new DoD efforts at human-machine teaming.

It was with a mix of deja vu, amusement and resignation that I saw the latest Dept. of Defense (DoD) pronouncements — try here and here — about their…

In the latest MERIP, there is a ridiculous and baseless critique of academic and policy-facing terrorism studies:

In the vacuum left by all of the attempts to distinguish jihadis from other Muslims, the work of explaining and interpreting jihadism is…

Strategy as Performance Art

I have seen this excerpt from Ralph Peters’ old Bill O’Reilly interview posted throughout the Internet today…

I will add a small addendum to the post on terrorism and risk communication.

First, Cheryl Rofer, a contact with an advanced understanding of the risk communication literature and a large amount of practical experience with public…