ALL AHEAD FLANK
Written to invite your thinking, these occasional essays offer my views on the wide stream of events and ideas carrying us forward. Reposted in Medium for a general audience, I look forward to longer exchanges here.
Simulating Citizenry
TechKnowlogy Magazine—June 2001 Note: this article gives a good description of the PeaceLab/CoLab simulation process. It was written to be one of the features in the inaugural edition of a new, online journal devoted to gaming applications edited by some leading...
Central Asian Students Tackle “Afghanization”
1998 Included in a report published in Kyrgyz, Russian and English by Kyrgyz State National University, this op-ed reports on a successful "PeaceGame" held in Central Asia. As of 2005 this series continues to bring students from all over Central Asia together. From a...
Resetting the National Consensus on Security Strategy
Spring 2004 Resetting the national consensus on security strategy. Published by the Chicago-based National Strategy Forum, this piece revisits the myths which have framed traditional US security strategy and proposes new ground rules for citizens thinking about how to...
Nuclear Logic
Christian Science Monitor—March 2005 I continue to worry—a lot!—that our nuclear arsenal managers and our National Command Authority (the President and the Secretary of Defense) have not adapted our nuclear doctrine to the practicalities—and the mysteries—of the...