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1 month ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Monte Erfourth |Robert Jordan |Jamie Stengle |Christopher Bodeen
Quotes of the Day:"The aim of the wise is to serve, not to rule."– Aristotle“Do not fear making mistakes; fear not learning from them.”– Epictetus"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown. ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever."– Aristophanes1. The End of the Office of Net Assessment: A Shortsighted Blow to American Military Strategy2. Jordan: Soft power still matters3. There was a legal path to closing USAGM4.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Nancy Youssef |Tom Nichols |Monte Erfourth |Alex Leary
Quotes of the Day:"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant; there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks."– Author Unknown, but widely attributed to Johann Gottfried von Herder"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion."– Plato"There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There's more than one would think...
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Monte Erfourth |Alex Leary |Greg Ip |Kanishka Singh
Quotes of the Day:“The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Stephen Hawking“Journalism is printing what somebody else doesn’t want printed – everything else Is public relations.”– George Orwell“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”– Isaac Asimov1. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Strategy for Social Change2. TikTok Goes Dark for U.S. Users, While Trump Signals He Will Save It3. Trump Told Advisers He Wants to Visit China as President4.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Alex Horton |Micah Smith |Monte Erfourth |Lindsay Wise
Quotes of the Day:6 – “Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.”– Timothy Snyder"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Monte Erfourth |Jane Lytvynenko |Holman Jenkins |Yoko Kubota
Quotes of the Day:"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is where we provide enough for those who have so little."– Franklin D. Roosevelt"I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace."– Federico Garcia Lorca1.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Monte Erfourth |Brent M. Eastwood |Peggy Noonan |Carlos Lozada
Courtesy Strategy Central: Access HERE Quotes of the Day:"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." – George Orwell"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." – Oliver Wendell Holmes"There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit." – Edmund Burke1. The Chinese Approach to Gray Zone & Irregular Competition: An Integrated Strategy Not Matched By The U.S.2.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Monte Erfourth |Yaroslav Trofimov |Samantha Pearson |Alistair MacDonald
Quotes of the Day:"I would hope that all educated citizens would fulfill this obligation—in politics, in Government, here in Nashville, here in this State, in the Peace Corps, in the Foreign Service, in the Government Service, in the Tennessee Valley, in the world. You will find the pressures greater than the pay. You may endure more public attacks than support.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Monte Erfourth |David Asher |Tawnell Hobbs |Jennifer Levitz
Quotes of the Day:"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." – Plato“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”– George Orwell"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." – John F. Kennedy1. Tactical Triumphs, Narrative Defeats - How Winning the Story Decides Modern Wars2. A Strategy for Striking Back at Iran3.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Monte Erfourth |Max Colchester |John Ismay |Ellen Nakashima
Quotes of the Day:"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."– Joseph Campbell"Four Rules For Life; Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results." – Angeles ArrienThe mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract." – Oliver Wendell Holmes1. US Navy Seal unit that killed Osama bin Laden trains for China invasion of Taiwan2. Biden administration split over Ukraine’s use of US weapons inside Russia3.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Monte Erfourth |Laurence Norman |Dustin Volz |Zusha Elinson
Quotes of the Day:"He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." – Thomas Paine"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.“The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it by complaining.” – Marcus Aurelius1. Congressional Call for Center of Special Operations Analysis2.
