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.
An Opportunity to Excel
Keynote address at Key Peninsula Citizens of the Year dinner—March 2005 Larry Seaquist was the keynote speaker at the recent Key Peninsula Citizens of the Year dinner. We asked him to say more about his call for the community to take the lead in planning its future....
Public Intelligence
Christian Science Monitor—December 2004 As the 9/11 Commission concluded its brilliant work, precipitating a rush to overhaul the US intelligence apparatus, this piece argues that, the reforms should put of the public at the top of the list of intelligence clients....
Military’s Bad-Guy Dragnet
Christian Science Monitor—May 2004 US military's bad-guy dragnet is a terrible way to win a war. Written as the world learned through leaked photos of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, this piece goes back to the accountability problem, arguing once again that a full and...
Peacebuilding Lessons
Christian Science Monitor—December 2003 This essay reports on some pioneering work in an American community. The "CoLabs" are the latest stage in the evolving application of war gaming techniques to peacebuilding and community development tasks. Importantly, the...