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.
PeaceGames & Practical Conflict Prevention
This article sketches the origins of the program, describes the PeaceGames, and invites interested people and organizations to participate in this pioneering work. 1999 The Strategy Group, working in harness with UNESCO's "Venice Process", designs and demonstrates...
Making American Naval Strategy
The Oxford Companion to American Military History, Oxford University Press, 1999 An essay on the history of U.S. naval strategy in The Oxford Companion to American Military History, Oxford University Press, 1999 On the surface, Alfred T. Mahan embodies American...
Disappearing Saddam
1997 Not understanding at that time that op-ed page editors needed contributions limited to 750 words or so, I failed to find a publisher for this one. But as the wreckage in Iraq unfolds, I still believe this was good advice. Copyright Larry Seaquist, 1997 It looks...
Defense Intelligence in a Disorderly World
This article was invited by the editors to be the keynote essay in the inaugural issue of a brand new professional journal published by the Defense Intelligence College Foundation. At that time I had been working for several years as the assistant to the Deputy Under...