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.
Exemplary Power
Christian Science Monitor—August 2003 Americans brandish more pure physical power than any empire in history. But are we using it effectively? I argue here that our power of example is far more potent than our firepower. GIG HARBOR, WASH. American power and America's...
UNESCO—Peacebuilding Superpower
Quarterly Bulletin of AMERICANS FOR UNESCO, Spring 2003 I discovered UNESCO and its unique peacebuilding potential in Italy in 1993. One of a small group meeting in springtime Venice to discuss UNESCO's role in a changing world, I expected to be the token military man...
Talking with Nukes
Christian Science Monitor—April 2003 Nuclear weapons are cropping up in more and more countries. This essay urges some fundamental rethinking about nuclear "signals" -- the activities and statements various players in the nuclear game send each other. Sadly, we seem...
The People’s Intelligence
Christian Science Monitor—April 2003 Nuclear weapons are cropping up in more and more countries. This essay urges some fundamental rethinking about nuclear "signals" -- the activities and statements various players in the nuclear game send each other. Sadly, we seem...