Archives
- 2010.03.16: Culture and conflict: is there a role in conflict prevention, resolution for culture?
- 2010.03.16: Comments on the new public diplomacy framework
- 2010.03.15: Meeting of the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
- 2010.03.11: The VOICE Act: Victims of Iranian Censorship
- 2010.03.11: John Brown on Public Diplomacy: The World Should Be Teaching Us, Mr. Kristof
- 2010.03.11: Judith McHale’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee discussing public diplomacy
- 2010.03.11: Jim Glassman’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee discussing public diplomacy
- 2010.03.11: Karen Hughes’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee discussing public diplomacy
- 2010.03.11: Evelyn Lieberman’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee discussing public diplomacy
- 2010.03.09: Public Diplomacy: Strengthening US Engagement with the World
- 2010.03.09: DOD explains its view of and organization for strategic communication
- 2010.03.09: Upcoming meeting of the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
- 2010.03.09: Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #50
- 2010.03.09: Social Networks what dreams are made of / now your the new dork
- 2010.03.09: Ridicule as Strategic Communication
- 2010.03.09: Glassman on "Strategic Public Diplomacy"
- 2010.03.09: State of the Media: Adversarial Exploitation of the Digital World
- 2010.03.08: Cull: Restoring America's reputation and the tragic children of Fallujah
- 2010.03.08: Nye: Restoring America's Reputation in the World and Why It Matters
- 2010.03.08: Guest Post: Sometimes it is Not Okay to be a Silent Professional
- 2010.03.07: Congress steps up: a caucus for strategic communication and public diplomacy
- 2010.03.07: Establishing the Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy Caucus
- 2010.03.07: This week: The Future of US Public Diplomacy
- 2010.02.26: Defense releases its new Internet / Social Media policy
- 2010.02.26: An update on VOA Persia's iPhone App
- 2010.02.26: National Defense University seeks public diplomacy professor
- 2010.02.19: The Global Impact of Brown v. Board of Education: Use of the ruling in Cold War foreign relations
- 2010.02.17: IIP responds to Pat Kushlis on IIP's "Creative Destruction"
- 2010.02.17: Rescheduled: public meeting of the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
- 2010.02.17: Conflict Prevention and Resolution: the Role for Cultural Relations
- 2010.02.17: DOD finally has a new Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
- 2010.02.17: Information as Power survey: what date works best for you?
- 2010.02.16: On Smith-Mundt, Part III
- 2010.02.15: [Off topic] NBC Olympic broadcast: an epic failure
- 2010.02.11: Information as Power training seminar a success; do it again in March?
- 2010.02.11: Rest in Peace, Jeff Jones
- 2010.02.11: Public diplomats receive public thanks
- 2010.02.04: Upcoming travel
- 2010.02.04: Information as Power: "Now Media" and the Struggle for Minds and Wills (Feb 2010)
- 2010.02.04: Berkowitz responds, discussing the Smith-Mundt Act
- 2010.02.04: Quadrennial Strategic Reviews
- 2010.02.04: Alan Heil: Challenges ahead for U.S. international broadcasting
- 2010.02.04: What does Microsoft and State's Bureau of International Information Programs have in common?
- 2010.02.04: BMW: Fostering sustainable partnerships to build bridges of understanding
- 2010.02.03: US International Broadcasting as an Untapped Resource
- 2010.02.03: Foreign Affairs for the 21st Century by Bill Kiehl
- 2010.02.03: Book review by Dennis Murphy on the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy
- 2010.02.03: The Voice of America: Origins and Recollections by Walter Roberts
- 2010.02.03: How Public Diplomacy Worked in Practice by Hans Tuch
- 2010.02.03: Leader for State's Bureau of International Information Programs to remain a "Coordinator"
- 2010.02.02: Comment on "Raising the iron curtain on twitter: Why the US Must Revise the Smith-Mundt Act to Improve Public Diplomacy"
- 2010.02.01: Global Readership of the MountainRunner blog
- 2010.02.01: One Nation Under Contract - A Book Review Essay by PHK
- 2010.01.28: Assistant Secretary for Education and Cultural Affairs
- 2010.01.28: Follow up on Marketing a course: which title is better?
- 2010.01.27: Marketing a course: which title is better?
- 2010.01.26: Meeting of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
- 2010.01.26: MountainRunner: now available on Kindle
- 2010.01.26: Assistant Secretary for Outreach and Social Media
- 2010.01.24: Reorganizing State: a comment by Major General Herbert J. McChrystal
- 2010.01.22: MountainRunner on the Radio
- 2010.01.22: Department of State and Non-State
- 2010.01.22: Recommended Reading: Behavioural Conflict
- 2010.01.22: Recalling History: the rising importance of people and public opinion
- 2010.01.22: The More Powerful Weapon
- 2010.01.21: Pentagon wins turf war with State over military aid
- 2010.01.21: The Soft Power Solution in Iran
- 2010.01.21: Today: interview on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick (updated)
- 2010.01.14: The Disappearance of China Air
- 2010.01.13: The State of State: A Proposal for Reorganization at Foggy Bottom
- 2010.01.13: Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #49
- 2010.01.13: Understanding and Engaging Now Media – Feb 8, 9, 10
- 2010.01.13: PUBD510: Public Diplomacy and Technology
- 2010.01.10: Recalling history: the 1947 Smith-Mundt CODEL to Europe
- 2010.01.08: Recalling history: information warfare
- 2010.01.08: Let me share some news with you: Gates likes the CNAS report but does not like that it is a CNAS report
- 2010.01.08: Senator Lugar: Information is Power
- 2010.01.07: Public Diplomacy and Technologies
- 2010.01.07: Underwear bomber predicted on The Daily Show back in June 2006
- 2010.01.05: Recalling History: Secretary of State testifies before House Appropriations
- 2010.01.05: Recalling History: Secretary of State testifies for information activities
- 2010.01.04: Three posts over the break you may have missed
- 2010.01.04: Understanding and Engaging Now Media: February 8-10 in DC
- 2010.01.04: New iPhone app allows uploads from Iran to VOA
- 2010.01.01: Guest Post: A Global Call to Arms in the Virtual Century
- 2009.12.29: Reorganizing Government to meet hybrid threats
- 2009.12.29: The Real Psychological Operation for Afghanistan
- 2009.12.28: Breaking the silence
- 2009.12.22: Members, Foreign Operations subcommittee of House Appropriations
- 2009.12.20: Members, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- 2009.12.20: Members, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- 2009.12.15: Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: How the West Won (Part II)
- 2009.12.15: Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: How the West Won
- 2009.12.14: What is Strategic Communication?
- 2009.12.13: Guest Post: A Failure to Explain
- 2009.12.12: Personal approach may be more effective than broadcasts
- 2009.12.09: US Government Meets New Media
- 2009.12.09: Report: Al Qaida kills eight times more Muslims than non-Muslims
- 2009.12.02: Funny thing happened on the way to the newspaper
- 2009.12.02: Event: Public Diplomacy and the United States Information Agency
- 2009.12.02: Event: The Abolition of USIA and Its Effects on U.S. Public Diplomacy
- 2009.12.02: Not an ordinary government news service
- 2009.12.02: White House Announces More Key Administration Posts
- 2009.12.02: Interesting factoid
- 2009.12.01: News aggregators for Public Diplomacy / Strategic Communication
- 2009.12.01: Public Diplomacy Alumni Association Announces Top Achievers
- 2009.12.01: Event: National Summit for Global Citizen Diplomacy
- 2009.12.01: Still unarmed in the struggle for minds and wills
- 2009.12.01: Global Information Environment
- 2009.12.01: The Plan for Afghanistan
- 2009.12.01: Public Diplomacy and New Technologies
- 2009.11.30: Thanks, Al...
- 2009.11.24: Event: Rumors Workshop
- 2009.11.24: Smith-Mundt Symposium: A Discourse to Shape America's Discourse
- 2009.11.24: Democracy Is...
- 2009.11.23: Smith-Mundt Act: Facts, Myths and Recommendations
- 2009.11.23: Cynthia Schneider on Cultural Diplomacy, including the surprising spread of "Idol" TV
- 2009.11.23: Job Opportunity: Visiting Professor of Strategic Communication
- 2009.11.23: Fresh Start for the Broadcasting Board of Governors
- 2009.11.19: White House nominates a new slate to the Broadcasting Board of Governors
- 2009.11.19: Risk Communication in a Constrained Information Environment
- 2009.11.16: Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #48
- 2009.11.16: Where's the value added here?
- 2009.11.12: On the road
- 2009.11.06: Event: Homeland Security's Wicked Problems
- 2009.11.06: Event: iDiplomacy: empowering the private sector and citizen diplomats in the digital age
- 2009.11.06: Quoting history: engaging in the information sphere
- 2009.11.04: Events: Culture's Purpose and the Work of Cultural Diplomacy
- 2009.11.03: Reminder: Understanding and Engaging Now Media
- 2009.11.03: Job opening: Strategic Communications Officer
- 2009.11.03: US allocates more funds to anti-Iran broadcasts?
- 2009.11.02: Interested in writing a review for a book on public diplomacy?
- 2009.11.02: Scholar, Student, or Academic: words shape perceptions
- 2009.11.02: Public Relations firm hosts Q&A with Price Floyd
- 2009.10.30: Blogging will resume, not right now but soon + other comments
- 2009.10.23: Ackerman: State Dept Project Signals Foreign Policy Shift
- 2009.10.23: Understanding and Engaging Now Media
- 2009.10.22: Bullets and Blogs: New Media and the Warfighter
- 2009.10.22: State Department’s structure hinders public diplomacy
- 2009.10.22: Bruce Gregory: Mapping Smart Power in Multi-stakeholder Public Diplomacy / Strategic Communication
- 2009.10.22: Deng Xiaoping's 24 Character Strategy
- 2009.10.21: Getting to know America: supporting foreign journalists in the US
- 2009.10.17: What is propaganda?
- 2009.10.12: Guest Post: "Brand America" back on top
- 2009.10.12: Armed Services Committees Authorize Funds and Activities for State Department information operations (Updated)
- 2009.10.08: In DC next week for meetings
- 2009.10.08: An Introduction to Using Network Maps in Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication
- 2009.10.08: Guest Post: Foreign Based Reporters in America are an Underutilized Public Diplomacy Resource
- 2009.10.06: Keeping Perspective on America's Jump to #1 in the Nation Brands Index
- 2009.10.06: Looking for a research topic on public diplomacy and strategic communication?
- 2009.10.06: Did You Know 4.0
- 2009.10.06: 21st Century Family of Man: A Photo Exhibition
- 2009.10.06: Blogging to resume shortly
- 2009.09.22: Recommended Reading
- 2009.09.22: Barriers to the Broad Dissemination of Creative Works in the Arab World
- 2009.09.22: "Out of Their Heads and Into Their Conversation: Countering Extremist Ideology"
- 2009.09.22: Conference Report: Strategic Communication in Countries Emerging from Violent Conflict
- 2009.09.22: Guidelines for publishing on Twitter
- 2009.09.22: State's Inspector General and US International Broadcasting
- 2009.09.22: More problems at State
- 2009.09.22: Information Graphics on Today’s Information Environment
- 2009.09.22: Books on persuasion
- 2009.09.21: Renewing America's Voices - Ideas for Reform
- 2009.09.21: Random: getting to know Lichtenstein
- 2009.09.21: Enabling Public Diplomacy Field Officers to do their Jobs
- 2009.09.21: Art of Declaring Victory and Going Home
- 2009.09.21: Resource: Foreign Relations of the U.S. online edition
- 2009.09.21: Failing to fund and support the civilian surge in Afghanistan?
- 2009.09.21: Operational note
- 2009.09.17: Absent Leadership in Public Diplomacy
- 2009.09.17: Tactical Strategic Communication! Placing Informational Effect at the Centre of Command
- 2009.09.16: Noteworthy
- 2009.09.16: News resources
- 2009.09.16: Public Diplomacy Front Line Letter to Principals
- 2009.09.16: Al Shabab, Minneapolis in the news again
- 2009.09.16: Quick reference: GAO report notes State staff shortfall, interagency failures
- 2009.09.16: Interagency failure: DHS detains VOA reporter for 10 days
- 2009.09.14: Hitting Bottom at Foggy Bottom at ForeignPolicy.com
- 2009.09.14: Defense and Strategic Communication: what did Congress ask for before the recess?
- 2009.09.10: Preparing to Lose the Information War?
- 2009.09.09: Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and/or/not Public Affairs?
- 2009.09.09: Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #47
- 2009.09.03: Understanding and Engaging 'Now Media' professional development course
- 2009.09.03: Qualified Support from Congress of DoD Strategic Communication
- 2009.09.01: The Intended 'Psychological By-Products' of Development
- 2009.08.31: Guest Post: The Rosetta Stone for Strategic Communication? More like Speak 'N Spell
- 2009.08.28: Sister Cities: the quintessential and yet underappreciated public diplomacy program
- 2009.08.21: Pushing Humpty Dumpty: the rebuilding of State
- 2009.08.20: Question: is it time to rebuild the State Department from scratch?
- 2009.08.18: USAID challenges reflect greater problems at the State Department
- 2009.08.17: Inconvenient ignorance: America's curious concern over influence in foreign affairs
- 2009.08.17: State Department Inspector General criticizes the Africa Bureau
- 2009.08.17: Inspector General's report on Information Operations Contracts
- 2009.08.17: Legal Challenges on Gov 2.0
- 2009.08.13: News or Propaganda?
- 2009.08.12: Public Diplomacy is not an influence activity and the DOD can only use PSYOP to engage foreign audiences
- 2009.08.12: News: Somali-American pleads guilty to helping Al-Shabaab
- 2009.08.11: Invitation to a play: True Friendship by a VOA journalist
- 2009.08.11: More on my Foreign Policy article about Smith-Mundt: Censoring the VOA
- 2009.08.10: Recommendations from the first semi-annual report of the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
- 2009.08.10: Quoting History: A Sound Report
- 2009.08.06: Why is it OK to broadcast terrorist propaganda but not taxpayer-funded media?
- 2009.08.03: How do you prepare for a career in public diplomacy?
- 2009.08.03: BBC: Taliban slick propaganda confronts US
- 2009.08.02: Is Social Media More Trustworthy than Voice of America?
- 2009.08.02: Washington Times Editorial: Fighting the War of Ideas
- 2009.07.29: House Appropriations Concerned Pentagon's Role in Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy (updated)
- 2009.07.29: Traveling - no posting until next week
- 2009.07.28: Guest Post: Superfriends and the Strategic Communication Continuum
- 2009.07.28: Guest Book Review: Drugs and Contemporary Warfare
- 2009.07.27: Most popular entries on MountainRunner according to you
- 2009.07.27: What is the purpose of Public Diplomacy if not to influence?
- 2009.07.25: Question: what does it mean if the demographic of two-thirds of your audience is not your target demographic?
- 2009.07.23: Request for assistance: feel like typing a number between 1 and 4?
- 2009.07.23: Event: GWU's Face-off to Facebook: From the Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate to Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century
- 2009.07.21: Broadcasting Board of Governors: empty seats at the public diplomacy table
- 2009.07.20: Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy is at Odds with Social Media, and What to Do about It: an interview with Matt Armstrong
- 2009.07.16: Elevating public diplomacy and strategic communication as national security priorities
- 2009.07.16: Guest Post: Explaining Why Afghanistan Matters - Whose Job Is It?
- 2009.07.15: Discussing Conspiracy Theories: a CO.NX webchat with Todd Leventhal
- 2009.07.14: Defining Public Diplomacy (again)
- 2009.07.14: Off Topic: Pushing the Limits - Diaries of an Ironman
- 2009.07.14: Tehran acknowledges the power of Twitter and Public Diplomacy?
- 2009.07.12: Guest Post: China's Image Marketing: How Well Can Confucius Do?
- 2009.07.09: Al-Jazeera: A Culture of Reporting at in Layalina's Perspectives
- 2009.07.09: In America? Smith-Mundt means no SMS updates on the President's Ghana speech for you!
- 2009.07.09: How will you respond to a customer complaint in the age of Social Media?
- 2009.07.08: Obsolete arguments to keep an obsolete law
- 2009.07.08: Summer 2009 Issue of PD Magazine is available
- 2009.07.08: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants: Do they think differently?
- 2009.07.08: CNAS grows
- 2009.07.08: Failure can be achieved with one action, success happens over time
- 2009.07.07: Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #46
- 2009.07.06: New Defense Department Plan on Strategic Communication and Science and Technology
- 2009.07.06: NATO Public Diplomacy: Six Colors / Six Couleurs
- 2009.07.06: Noteworthy Links: Information and Communication edition
- 2009.07.06: World Bank Report: Information and Communications for Development 2009
- 2009.07.06: View the Democracy Video Challenge winners
- 2009.07.06: Broadband hits Africa
- 2009.07.06: Quoting History: Reorganizing to look busy
- 2009.07.05: Event: International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy
- 2009.06.30: Out of the Office, still
- 2009.06.25: Enhancing the Digital Native / Immigrant taxonomy
- 2009.06.24: Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere report identifies potential allies
- 2009.06.20: Bouncing Around London
- 2009.06.15: A (R)Evolution in Public Affairs at the Defense Department?
- 2009.06.15: Beware of cheap imitators
- 2009.06.15: Upcoming travel and a renewed call for guest posts
- 2009.06.13: Comment on Judith McHale's talk at CNAS
- 2009.06.12: Debating the Theory vs Practice of Public Diplomacy
- 2009.06.12: Guest Post: Congress Takes a Step Forward in Preparing Future Generations of America for the Global Age
- 2009.06.12: Event: 8th Annual Information Operations Forum
- 2009.06.11: Social Media as Public Diplomacy
- 2009.06.11: Judith McHale at CNAS: Public Diplomacy: A National Security Imperative
- 2009.06.11: HR 2410: Public Diplomacy requires Leadership, Training, Access, and Oversight
- 2009.06.08: Required Reading: 100 Years of COIN: What new have we Learned?
- 2009.06.08: World Map of Social Networks
- 2009.06.08: Media Framing Informs and Influences
- 2009.06.08: CNAS Empire Expands, Absorbs Abu Muqawama
- 2009.06.04: Questioning the Difference between Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy (Updated)
- 2009.06.04: Event: Striking a Balance: A New American Security
- 2009.06.04: Event: beyond broadcast 09
- 2009.06.02: No blogging while traveling but a few links before I go
- 2009.06.02: OMB Watch: GAO Report on Public Diplomacy Creates Opportunity for Nonprofits
- 2009.05.28: Senator Edward Zorinsky and Banning Domestic Dissemination by USIA in 1985
- 2009.05.28: Recommended Reading: Kilcullen Doctrine
- 2009.05.28: Noteworthy - Twitter Edition
- 2009.05.28: Noteworthy (Updated)
- 2009.05.28: Using Video to Tell a Story
- 2009.05.28: Updating the Resume
- 2009.05.28: Company's 'ATM For Books' Prints On Demand
- 2009.05.28: Noteworthy - Social Media edition
- 2009.05.27: Guest Post: Engaging Opinion Leaders for Social Change
- 2009.05.27: Event: 8th Annual Information Operations Europe
- 2009.05.27: New GAO Report on Public Diplomacy is out (Updated)
- 2009.05.26: Going Global Means Thinking Domestic Too
- 2009.05.26: Are you monitoring the Now Media environment?
- 2009.05.26: Updating the Under Secretary Incumbency Chart
- 2009.05.26: Event: Smart Power, New Media and Public Diplomacy
- 2009.05.26: Event: Journalists' Roundtable Discussion on Afghanistan and Pakistan
- 2009.05.20: Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #45
- 2009.05.18: Off topic: updates on some of my friends...
- 2009.05.09: A few reading recommendations while I'm traveling this week...
- 2009.05.08: Turning a missed opportunity into a negative (Updated)
- 2009.05.08: Event: Strategic Communications in Countries Emerging from Violent Conflict
- 2009.05.07: Some media-related headlines for your enjoyment
- 2009.05.05: Recommended Reading: Cull on Lugar's leadership in America's leaderless Public Diplomacy
- 2009.05.04: Guest Post: PSYOP for everyone
- 2009.05.04: New Rules of Engagement
- 2009.05.04: New York Times' Policy on Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites
- 2009.05.04: Remembering that it's not about you
- 2009.05.04: DOD issues instructions in support of ICT
- 2009.05.04: Free Media is Essential to ...
- 2009.05.04: The White House, Social Media, and Public Diplomacy
- 2009.05.03: Event: New frontiers in science diplomacy
- 2009.05.03: Thanks for reading MountainRunner.us and some notes on the future
- 2009.04.30: Admin: back online
- 2009.04.30: Admin: problems with the blog
- 2009.04.29: Guest Post: Let's Get Susan Boyle to Sing the National Anthem
- 2009.04.29: BRB - Blogging to resume soon
- 2009.04.22: Guest Post: How to win the GWOT - or whatever it's called today
- 2009.04.21: Guest Post: Why "public diplomacy"?
- 2009.04.17: Posting will be light for the next week
- 2009.04.17: Empowering and Engaging the First Three Feet: an upcoming symposium
- 2009.04.17: Guest Post: Three (More) Steps to Better E-Diplomacy
- 2009.04.17: Marc Lynch clarifies his comments on Judith McHale made back in January
- 2009.04.17: Will the nomination of P.J. Crowley to Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs help fix Public Diplomacy?
- 2009.04.16: Is Public Diplomacy more than, less than, or equal to Public Relations?
- 2009.04.16: Event: Public Affairs in a Global Information Environment
- 2009.04.16: Event: InfoWarCon April 23-24
- 2009.04.16: Advice from the Former Under Secretary to the Incoming Under Secretary
- 2009.04.16: Event: Curating Difficult Knowledge Conference
- 2009.04.14: White House Nominates Judith McHale as Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
- 2009.04.13: Noteworthy
- 2009.04.09: Report on the Smith-Mundt Symposium
- 2009.04.09: The False Hope of the President's Public Diplomacy
- 2009.04.09: Guest Post: An Anti-Piracy Mission Transforms From Interdiction to Strategic Communication
- 2009.04.08: Guest Post: Must. Be. AWESOME!
- 2009.04.07: Is this public diplomacy? Close but not quite
- 2009.04.06: Simple Advice for Dealing with the Media
- 2009.04.06: What Does the New Tech Guru at the State Department Mean for Public Diplomacy?
- 2009.04.02: Guest Post: Renewing America's Global Leadership
- 2009.04.01: Government reports on public diplomacy you may have missed
- 2009.04.01: Can Social Media organically transform government?
- 2009.04.01: Robots as Strategic Corporals
- 2009.03.31: Isolated Overseas: Diplomatic Security Creates Challenges for American Public Diplomacy
- 2009.03.30: The Kitchen Debate of 1959: more than just two guys talking
- 2009.03.30: It sure is quiet around here... a few links and musings during the silence
- 2009.03.24: The Future of Public Diplomacy
- 2009.03.23: Whither Public Diplomacy? Sixty-six days (and counting) without an Under Secretary (Updated)
- 2009.03.23: Kristin Lord: What not to do in public diplomacy
- 2009.03.23: Should a presentation about promoting dialogue include time for dialogue?
- 2009.03.23: Event: Online Symposium on P.W. Singer's Wired For War
- 2009.03.23: Guest Post: NATO and New Media: new landscapes and new challenges
- 2009.03.23: Leadership Changes at the Combatant Commands and more thoughts on Realigning the State Department
- 2009.03.22: CSC Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Grant Project
- 2009.03.20: Breaking the silence: posting will resume this weekend
- 2009.03.12: Offline through next week
- 2009.03.12: Guest bloggers welcomed here
- 2009.03.11: Facebook launched in Arabic and Hebrew
- 2009.03.11: Event: 8th Annual Information Operations Europe
- 2009.03.11: Event update: InfoWarCon 2009
- 2009.03.11: Recommended reading: Smith-Mundt: Censorship American Style?
- 2009.03.10: Pew: The New Washington Press Corps
- 2009.03.10: For your information: The Public Diplomacy Collaborative
- 2009.03.10: Noteworthy
- 2009.03.10: Recommended Reading: Countering Online Radicalisation
- 2009.03.10: Event: A New Direction for USAID-At Home and Abroad
- 2009.03.09: Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #44
- 2009.03.09: Motion Picture Licensing Corporation comes around?
- 2009.03.09: Did you Know? aka Shift Happens 3.0
- 2009.03.08: Defense Department contracts for public affairs AND public diplomacy
- 2009.03.08: Are you a blogger interested in foreign affairs? Want a job?
- 2009.03.06: Posting will resume next week
- 2009.03.01: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report on American public diplomacy centers and programs
- 2009.03.01: Things to read while I am offline
- 2009.03.01: Quotes from the Senate hearing "Engaging with Muslim Communities"
- 2009.03.01: It is time to create a center for public diplomacy discourse and research
- 2009.02.28: Abu Muqawama gets promoted
- 2009.02.28: Worthwhile: Layalina Review on Public Diplomacy 12 Feb-26 Feb (links fixed)
- 2009.02.26: RAND Report: Whither Strategic Communication?
- 2009.02.26: Senate Hearing today: Engaging with Muslim Communities Around the World
- 2009.02.26: Event: The Public Diplomacy Council's Evening with Four Authors
- 2009.02.26: Blast from the Past: Afghan Road Rage and the real public diplomats
- 2009.02.26: A talk with the author of Haliburton's Army
- 2009.02.24: Comparing the Areas of Responsibility of State and Defense (Updated)
- 2009.02.23: PD20.org (Updated)
- 2009.02.23: White House Announced Internet Team
- 2009.02.23: Worthwhile: Public Diplomacy reading
- 2009.02.23: Summarizing Public Diplomacy Reports
- 2009.02.23: Detecting Deception: A Bibliography of Counterdeception
- 2009.02.20: Noteworthy
- 2009.02.20: White Oak Recommendations: Rethinking Public Diplomacy (Updated)
- 2009.02.20: Event: Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Engaging Muslim Communities Around the World
- 2009.02.18: Guest Post: Fine Public Diplomacy from a Surprising Quarter
- 2009.02.18: Make Knowledge about America Accessible: Move the Libraries Outside the Walls (Updated)
- 2009.02.17: Ackerman: Future of Public Diplomacy Unsettled at State
- 2009.02.17: Mike Doran at HASC: Strategies for Countering Violent Extremist Ideologies
- 2009.02.16: Public Diplomacy & New Technologies
- 2009.02.16: Event: InfoWarCon (Updated)
- 2009.02.16: Interesting readings on Swarm Warfare
- 2009.02.16: Laura Rozen: Public diplomats (rightly) fear the direction of "R"
- 2009.02.16: Development as Public Diplomacy
- 2009.02.13: Attackerman on Public Diplomacy
- 2009.02.13: Required Reading on Global Engagement
- 2009.02.12: Still Wanted (?): An Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy (Updated)
- 2009.02.12: Russian Media: President Obama decided to use a "weapon" of public diplomacy
- 2009.02.09: Citing MountainRunner
- 2009.02.09: On Deck
- 2009.02.09: Admin: problems with comments
- 2009.02.05: Defense changing to better Coordinate with State, but...
- 2009.02.05: Books you must read
- 2009.02.04: A worthy cause to support
- 2009.02.03: Investing in America's infrastructure
- 2009.02.03: Twittering USIP's Media as Global Diplomat Conference
- 2009.02.02: Media Roundtable Transcript is Online
- 2009.02.02: Nothing but crickets on the subject of Public Diplomacy
- 2009.01.28: Wanted: an Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy
- 2009.01.28: Recommended Reading While I'm Offline for a Few Days
- 2009.01.27: As I approaches 0, ROI approaches infinity
- 2009.01.27: A few words from America's Chief Public Diplomat
- 2009.01.26: China and Public Diplomacy
- 2009.01.26: Twittering White House Press Briefings
- 2009.01.26: Book: Threats in the Age of Obama
- 2009.01.25: Noteworthy
- 2009.01.23: Public Diplomacy is not Public Relations
- 2009.01.23: DipNote and FP
- 2009.01.23: A government of, by, and for the people that informs the people
- 2009.01.22: Free Chinese Political Warfare - 1959
- 2009.01.22: Smith-Mundt Symposium in the Blogosphere +
- 2009.01.22: (not) Measuring the Now Media audience with Technorati
- 2009.01.22: And then there was one
- 2009.01.21: Demonstration of "Now Media"
- 2009.01.21: Q and A with pre-confirmation Secretary State Hillary Clinton (Updated)
- 2009.01.21: Noteworthy
- 2009.01.21: Change @ .gov
- 2009.01.20: Symposium Transcripts: (former) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Mike Doran
- 2009.01.20: Symposium Transcripts: Under Secretary Glassman's keynote and my welcome
- 2009.01.16: Smith-Mundt Symposium in Pictures
- 2009.01.14: Symposium Audio: Glassman and Doran Keynotes
- 2009.01.14: InfoWarCon 2009
- 2009.01.14: The Smith-Mundt Symposium
- 2009.01.12: Symposium!
- 2009.01.12: No webcast for the Symposium
- 2009.01.11: Admin Note: in DC
- 2009.01.08: Smith-Mundt Symposium: Updates
- 2009.01.07: Following Up on the Smith-Mundt Symposium's Media Roundtable
- 2009.01.06: Remembering the purpose of Smith-Mundt
- 2009.01.06: Thanks Armchair Generalist
- 2009.01.05: The Foreign Policy Collective
- 2009.01.05: China isn't a nail
- 2009.01.05: Media Event: Journalist Roundtable on the Smith-Mundt Symposium
- 2009.01.03: Off to DC
- 2009.01.03: Israel and the War of Perceptions
- 2009.01.03: MountainRunner on Facebook
- 2009.01.02: Quoting History
- 2008.12.31: MountainRunner Year-End Review
- 2008.12.31: Kill My TV: where's the news?
- 2008.12.30: Quoting History
- 2008.12.30: Twitter in War
- 2008.12.29: Filtering comments
- 2008.12.28: Noteworthy
- 2008.12.24: A good news story for public diplomacy and global engagement
- 2008.12.24: Event: The media and public diplomacy
- 2008.12.24: The Smith-Mundt Act: A legislative history
- 2008.12.24: Media and Public Diplomacy: a look back at the relationship sixty years ago
- 2008.12.24: Quoting history
- 2008.12.24: All a twitter over some tweets
- 2008.12.23: Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #43
- 2008.12.23: Smith-Mundt Symposium Update
- 2008.12.23: Guest Post: Democracy Building That Works
- 2008.12.21: Quoting history
- 2008.12.18: Persuasive politics: Revisit the Smith-Mundt Act
- 2008.12.18: Quick Hits
- 2008.12.17: Books for the Holidays
- 2008.12.16: Comments worth reading
- 2008.12.15: Smith-Mundt Symposium Update
- 2008.12.15: Guest Post: Pirates are not terrorists but the prevention of both are similar
- 2008.12.11: Who will be the next Under Secretary?
- 2008.12.11: A Briefing 2.0 for the Smith-Mundt Symposium
- 2008.12.09: Smith-Mundt Symposium Update
- 2008.12.09: Golden Oldies: American mercenaries of public diplomacy
- 2008.12.07: Is Piracy Terrorism? No.
- 2008.12.03: USC Annenberg Dean Ernie Wilson appointed to PD transition team
- 2008.12.03: Dragon Runner - takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'
- 2008.12.03: Government Using BI Software To Measure Public Diplomacy
- 2008.12.03: Virtual Briefing Pass
- 2008.12.02: Merging Public Affairs, PSYOP, IO
- 2008.12.02: From the UK: 'Strategic Communication: A Primer'
- 2008.12.01: Blogging will be light to nil for the rest of the week
- 2008.12.01: Noteworthy
- 2008.12.01: Public Diplomacy 2.0
- 2008.11.28: Registration is now open plus other announcements
- 2008.11.27: Event: International News Coverage in a New Media World
- 2008.11.26: More on the Al-Qaeda slur
- 2008.11.25: USAID: Why the Story that U.S. Foreign Assistance Is Working Must Be Told
- 2008.11.25: It's Gates
- 2008.11.25: Noteworthy
- 2008.11.25: Voices of America: U.S. Public Diplomacy for the 21st Century
- 2008.11.25: Ruminating
- 2008.11.25: Event: Tackling Piracy at Sea Conference
- 2008.11.24: Smith-Mundt Symposium: panel format and line-up
- 2008.11.24: Events: Public Diplomacy 2.0
- 2008.11.24: Bacevich, The Limits of Power
- 2008.11.21: Readings on Future Threats
- 2008.11.21: Routledge Handbook on Public Diplomacy: errata
- 2008.11.20: Reforming U.S. Public Diplomacy for the 21st Century
- 2008.11.20: All this talk about piracy...
- 2008.11.19: Al-Qaeda is not the only threat
- 2008.11.19: Ayman al-Zawahiri's racial epithet
- 2008.11.18: Obama-Biden Transition: Agency Review Teams
- 2008.11.18: Event: Voices of America: U.S. Public Diplomacy for the 21st Century
- 2008.11.18: Noteworthy
- 2008.11.18: A look at State Department's FY09 budget
- 2008.11.18: The internet and "public opinion" in China
- 2008.11.18: Can Facebook defeat terrorism?
- 2008.11.18: Communicating with the public
- 2008.11.17: You must be agile to be effective in the global information environment
- 2008.11.17: Remembering why East is west and West is East
- 2008.11.17: Defining Public Diplomacy
- 2008.11.17: Public Diplomacy and Smith-Mundt in the Asian Tribune
- 2008.11.17: Pirates!
- 2008.11.16: Robots!
- 2008.11.13: If they don't know you won, did you?
- 2008.11.13: Quoting History: Policies and Actions Must Anticipate Psychological Impact
- 2008.11.13: Measuring "Shared Values"
- 2008.11.13: Quoting History: the marginalization of public diplomacy
- 2008.11.13: Learning about food prices and your waist in 4min20s
- 2008.11.11: Counterinsurgency: A Guide for Policy-Makers
- 2008.11.11: Armistice Day, known in America since 1954 as Veterans Day
- 2008.11.11: Noteworthy
- 2008.11.10: The Report of the 1967 United States Advisory Commission on Information
- 2008.11.10: Quoting History: Congressional Intent on Privatization of International Broadcasting
- 2008.11.10: Smith-Mundt Symposium Schedule
- 2008.11.10: Stay informed about the Smith-Mundt Symposium
- 2008.11.09: Henry Loomis, former VOA Director, R.I.P.
- 2008.11.06: On the reading pile
- 2008.11.06: Speculating on the Obama Cabinet
- 2008.11.05: Congratulations, President-elect Obama
- 2008.11.04: The Spectrum of War and Peace and the Role of Public Diplomacy
- 2008.11.04: Briefing 2.0 - Answers
- 2008.11.04: Vote!
- 2008.10.30: Two Public diplomacy reports you probably haven't read
- 2008.10.30: Making Diplomacy Public
- 2008.10.30: Defining Public Diplomacy: Preparing for a new Administration
- 2008.10.30: Briefing 2.0: the State Department makes a bold move
- 2008.10.30: The Struggle for Minds and Wills in the Age of Obama
- 2008.10.28: Kristin Lord on DOD’s $300m "Public Diplomacy" push
- 2008.10.27: Mark your Calendar for the Smith-Mundt Symposium: Jan 13, 2009
- 2008.10.27: Tomorrow: Blogger Roundtable with Under Secretary Jim Glassman
- 2008.10.27: Admin: Back Online, finally
- 2008.10.21: Posting will be light to nil until next week
- 2008.10.20: STATE DEPARTMENT, Public Law 402 80th Congress (VOICE OF AMERICA)
- 2008.10.20: Doolittle's spies: Pigeons, Squirrels... time again for Project ACORN
- 2008.10.20: Noteworthy
- 2008.10.20: Isn't capitalism about building capital?
- 2008.10.17: Arming for the Second War of Ideas: the Department of Global Affairs
- 2008.10.16: Noteworthy
- 2008.10.13: Handbook of Public Diplomacy
- 2008.10.11: Propagating emotional responses for supporting the cause
- 2008.10.10: Realizing the value of Foreign Aid
- 2008.10.10: Senator urges suspension of Iraq publicity contracts
- 2008.10.10: Admin question: can you sign in and vote on the blog?
- 2008.10.09: Report: The "militarization" of diplomacy exists and is accelerating
- 2008.10.09: Noteworthy
- 2008.10.09: Event: New America Foundation conference on Al Qaeda 3.0 - with live webcast
- 2008.10.08: New Army Doctrine Places Stability Operations Equal to Military Combat Power
- 2008.10.08: FCC to Probe "Hidden Hand" Analysts
- 2008.10.08: Admin: MountainRunner got a make-over
- 2008.10.04: American Public Diplomacy Wears Combat Boots: the Pentagon's $300 million to "engage and inspire"
- 2008.10.03: Noteworthy
- 2008.10.01: Reconstruction and Stabilization Corps to be Enacted
- 2008.09.30: Comments from the blogosphere on Strategic Communication
- 2008.09.29: Principles of Strategic Communication (Updated)
- 2008.09.29: A Theory of Strategic Communication: 'like an orchestra producing harmony'
- 2008.09.29: You're not winning if they don't know it
- 2008.09.29: Event: AFRICOM and Beyond: The Future of U.S.-African Security and Defense Relations
- 2008.09.29: Off Topic: Congratulations, Jimmy, on your sub-24hr 100miler
- 2008.09.26: Noteworthy
- 2008.09.26: Event: Under Secretary James K. Glassman to Speak at National Press Club Oct. 3
- 2008.09.26: Event: "Defending Hamdan" at CTLab
- 2008.09.25: Blogging on Public Diplomacy: the UK in the USA
- 2008.09.25: The Brownback Bill: S.3546 to Establish the National Center for Strategic Communication
- 2008.09.25: National Defense Authorization Act and Strategic Communication, Propaganda, and the SCMB
- 2008.09.25: Wall Street Bailout = Pentagon Cuts?
- 2008.09.24: New: Assistant Secretary of State for International Information Programs (IIP)
- 2008.09.23: Understanding Public Diplomacy
- 2008.09.23: Public diplomats: positive and grim
- 2008.09.21: Convening (and seeding) the discussion...
- 2008.09.21: Thinking about and planning for The Transition...
- 2008.09.21: Smart power is the effective use of economics and development, diplomacy, force, and truthful information
- 2008.09.21: The Spectacle of War: Insurgent video propaganda and Western response
- 2008.09.21: Sharia courts in Britain
- 2008.09.19: Where is MountainRunner?
- 2008.09.19: Open-Thread is still open, and what about USIA 2.0, USAID, and more
- 2008.09.19: Noteworthy
- 2008.09.18: Reminder and Heads up on Who will be the next SecState, SecDef, etc is active
- 2008.09.18: Boyd and Information Operations
- 2008.09.17: Blogger Roundtable with Under Secretary Glassman (Updated with links and transcript)
- 2008.09.17: Who will be the next SecState, SecDef, ... Part II
- 2008.09.17: Admin note: comments are re-enabled
- 2008.09.17: Event: Public Diplomacy and the War of Ideas: Agendas for the Next Administration
- 2008.09.17: For Wed the 17th: Blogger Roundtable with Under Secretary James Glassman
- 2008.09.16: Event: Reforming U.S. Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication: Views from Congress
- 2008.09.16: Debating in the New Media: State Department dialogues with Ahmadinejad's media advisor
- 2008.09.15: Off Topic: Victory over Darkness premiere
- 2008.09.15: Question: who will be the next...
- 2008.09.15: Blog problems
- 2008.09.15: Is America Equipped to Win a World-Wide Propaganda War?
- 2008.09.14: Supporting Citizen Media
- 2008.09.14: Wanted: Islamic Religious Specialist for COIN and IO
- 2008.09.13: USC 35 : OSU 3
- 2008.09.13: Noteworthy
- 2008.09.11: "Over the last seven years, our policies have evolved" (Updated)
- 2008.09.10: Intel Dump Returns
- 2008.09.10: Noteworthy
- 2008.09.10: Survey of American Military Enlisted Personnel Political Attitudes and Behavior (Updated link)
- 2008.09.04: Posting will resume... next week
- 2008.09.01: The return of the Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review
- 2008.08.29: Noteworthy
- 2008.08.28: Ashraf Fouad, Smith-Mundt and Al-Hurra
- 2008.08.28: Book Review: Losing Arab Hearts and Minds by Steve Tatham
- 2008.08.27: Essential reading: the difference between public diplomacy and propaganda, by John Brown
- 2008.08.26: Off topic: William Saletan at Slate argues for social promotion
- 2008.08.26: The War of Ideas: UK edition
- 2008.08.26: Noteworthy
- 2008.08.26: Defense Media Activity: centralizing information practice and understanding
- 2008.08.22: Open Source Counter-Propaganda
- 2008.08.22: Public Diplomacy tip: speak to audiences as if they were investors, because they are
- 2008.08.22: More on the Media's bias toward money not informing
- 2008.08.22: Blackberries and Wireless Networks in Baghdad
- 2008.08.22: Richard Barrett's Al-Qaida's Strengths and Vulnerabilities
- 2008.08.21: Outsourcing the fight to counter misinformation
- 2008.08.21: Cold War II?
- 2008.08.20: A new voice in the Smith-Mundt discussion
- 2008.08.20: On the Air in three, two... and you're done, thanks for coming
- 2008.08.19: From RAND's Vision of the Future
- 2008.08.19: Target: French and other NATO publics
- 2008.08.19: Today's Recommended Reading on Public Diplomacy
- 2008.08.17: Rethinking Smith-Mundt: responding to Sharon Weinberger
- 2008.08.17: Trusting the media? A new report from Pew Research
- 2008.08.17: Off topic: Olympic swimming is over, finally
- 2008.08.17: Survey: U.S. military and movies
- 2008.08.16: Off topic: It's called experience
- 2008.08.13: Unasked in NYT's "photography as a weapon": does the media have an obligation to check its facts?
- 2008.08.13: Welcoming Kent's Imperative back to the blogosphere
- 2008.08.12: Comparing interviewers: Wolf Blitzer and Bob Costas
- 2008.08.12: Thinking about 2014
- 2008.08.12: Contractors: the hundred billion dollar temporary fix
- 2008.08.12: When the truth comes out, was it worth the sleight of hand, or voice as it were?
- 2008.08.11: Are the Russians violating US sovereignty in the cyber war?
- 2008.08.11: Outsourcing to break the "cyber-lock"
- 2008.08.11: iPhone as a weapon
- 2008.08.11: WaPo: When American Public Diplomacy Wears Combat Boots, we waste money and opportunities
- 2008.08.11: Who’s talking now? USA Men’s 4x100 Free Relay!!
- 2008.08.07: Recommended Reading
- 2008.08.07: Follow up on American Public Diplomacy Wears Combat Boots
- 2008.08.06: American Public Diplomacy Wears Combat Boots, it's wrong but it's true
- 2008.08.06: Niche news aggregators and other monitoring tools
- 2008.08.06: A book for the aspiring architect of USIA 2.0
- 2008.08.05: New Media and Persuasion, Mobilization, and Facilitation
- 2008.08.05: "In Olympic competition, a race is won in the mind."
- 2008.07.31: Recommended Reading
- 2008.07.28: Rethinking Smith-Mundt: a look back at its purpose
- 2008.07.28: The Art of Asymmetric Warfare
- 2008.07.26: Openness & Government: a guest post by Shane Deichman
- 2008.07.25: Social Media and Foreign Policy
- 2008.07.24: Book Review: The Art of Global Public Relations
- 2008.07.24: Away from the podium: what does Sean McCormack do?
- 2008.07.22: Domestic influence op
- 2008.07.22: Quoting History and the “new” predominance of engaging the people
- 2008.07.21: Who engages and informs the American public on foreign affairs?
- 2008.07.16: Glassman reaches out to bloggers (Updated)
- 2008.07.16: State Department File 649
- 2008.07.16: American public diplomacy (and increasingly foreign policy in general) wears combat boots
- 2008.07.15: Stop saying 'Hearts and Minds', you don't mean it
- 2008.07.15: Miscellanea (updated)
- 2008.07.15: Right now: Under Secretary Glassman to discuss U.S. Public Diplomacy efforts (Updated)
- 2008.07.05: Admin note: little to no blogging for the next week
- 2008.07.05: Jesse Helms, RIP, and USIA (updated)
- 2008.07.05: Passing the word on the 2008 DNI Open Source Conference
- 2008.07.05: More on getting into the struggle for minds and wills from Andrew Woods
- 2008.07.05: Off Topic: It’s Time for Le Tour de France
- 2008.07.03: Engaging and Understanding the Egyptian Street
- 2008.07.02: More on USAID and U.S. Public Diplomacy
- 2008.07.02: What would you do if you had six (or less) months to address the problems of U.S. Public Diplomacy?
- 2008.07.02: Two Headlines to Note (Update: +1 headline)
- 2008.07.02: Off Topic: blog wiring changes related to stat collecting
- 2008.07.02: Recommended Reading on Information Operations
- 2008.07.01: If Smith-Mundt really applied to the entire government...
- 2008.07.01: Major General Doug Stone and practicing the struggle for minds and wills
- 2008.07.01: American Progress: Build a National Consensus on Development and Dump Smith-Mundt
- 2008.06.30: U.S. Public Diplomacy in the News: Jazz Edition
- 2008.06.26: Left at the post?
- 2008.06.26: An example of the Smith-Mundt firewall
- 2008.06.25: A different CNN Effect
- 2008.06.24: Where can you go and not talk about a new USIA?
- 2008.06.24: U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy: no one in PD conducts PD overseas
- 2008.06.24: Setting a new course for U.S. Public Diplomacy?
- 2008.06.23: Looking beyond Al-Hurra and into American Information Activities (updated)
- 2008.06.21: Returning to the Mirror: Sharing the U.S. Elections with the World
- 2008.06.21: Others discuss the “Phallo-Fascism of a Vainglorious Anthropologist”
- 2008.06.20: Robots on the Radio: interviews with Arkin, Asaro, and Armstrong on warbots
- 2008.06.20: Shameless self-promotion: helping future PD officers
- 2008.06.19: David Firestein's 12 Tough Questions about Public Diplomacy
- 2008.06.19: Posting will be light through the rest of the month
- 2008.06.18: Reading lists on ethnographic intelligence/human terrain mapping, and some thoughts on same
- 2008.06.18: On the reading pile
- 2008.06.17: Now also posting at CTLab...
- 2008.06.17: The actual wording of Public Law 402, aka the Smith-Mundt Act
- 2008.06.17: Meme of Seven
- 2008.06.16: Filling in the gaps of ITP’s article on Smith-Mundt and the Defense Department
- 2008.06.16: Attempting Unrestricted Warfare
- 2008.06.16: Why we serve: to be prohibited by the Hodes Amendment
- 2008.06.16: Ranting on America’s missing infrastructure
- 2008.06.14: USG sites related to the “I” in DIME
- 2008.06.13: Recommended Reading for Saturday, 14 June 2008
- 2008.06.13: VOA and BBC in *Burma*
- 2008.06.13: David Axe is off to Chad...
- 2008.06.10: Recommended Viewing: General Stone’s exit interview
- 2008.06.10: Good news story about Public Diplomacy in the NYT (made possible by Smith-Mundt)
- 2008.06.10: Twittering around the world: the new multicast instant messenger
- 2008.06.10: Hmm... 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi, Russia
- 2008.06.10: Blogging to resume this morning... sort of
- 2008.06.05: 172 days later, the U.S. has an Under Secretary of Public Diplomacy
- 2008.06.03: The importance of words in shaping perceptions
- 2008.06.03: Information Operations from an Asian Perspective by Yin and Taylor
- 2008.06.01: The Strategic Communication of Unmanned Warfare
- 2008.05.30: From Abu Muqawama: Thank You, and Goodbye
- 2008.05.28: Propaganda Is Now Officially Hip (Updated)
- 2008.05.28: Going to the DHS Science and Technology Conference and other travel notes
- 2008.05.27: Local is Global: how the TVA board impacts America's Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication
- 2008.05.26: Censoring the United States, Preventing Domestic Discourse
- 2008.05.26: Recommended Reading for Tuesday, 27 May 2008 (Updated)
- 2008.05.26: Better Dead than Read?
- 2008.05.22: Developing a National Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy Strategy
- 2008.05.19: American Public Diplomacy Wears Combat Boots: Proposed Strategic Communication Management Board to advise the Secretary of Defense
- 2008.05.17: Required Reading: The Spectacle of War by Andrew Exum
- 2008.05.14: Of budgets and priorities and the War of Ideas
- 2008.05.14: Public Diplomacy Awards
- 2008.05.14: Contracting out foreign military training
- 2008.05.13: Exploiting the holes in the bubble: understanding Smith-Mundt's barriers
- 2008.05.12: Kim Andrew Elliott on Senator Coburn's letter to Stephen Hadley
- 2008.05.08: Recommended Reading
- 2008.05.05: Headlines and Links
- 2008.05.05: Afghanistan: Americans have the wristwatches, but who has the time?
- 2008.05.03: Administrative note: now open for anonymous comments
- 2008.05.02: U.S. Public Diplomacy Update: nothing new to report
- 2008.05.02: Book Review: Information Operations: Doctrine and Practice
- 2008.05.02: Recommending terminology: DHS and NCTC docs are available
- 2008.05.01: GOOOOOOD MORNING IRAQ! Engaging the people with more than foot patrols, on the air in Iraq
- 2008.05.01: A time to be flip: Psychology of the Spectacle, Sputnik in the Post-9/11 Era
- 2008.05.01: Interesting: Modeling Crowd Behavior
- 2008.05.01: American Public Diplomacy Wears Combat Boots
- 2008.05.01: Another chance to raise Smith-Mundt: Is the State Department and President Bush "legitimizing" the actions of the enemy by continuing to use "jihadi"?
- 2008.04.30: Book Review: Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Gerry Loftus
- 2008.04.30: Worth Reading
- 2008.04.29: Strengthening State by Making It More like Defense
- 2008.04.29: Arab jails: a synonym for torture and repression? Or is that an exaggeration?
- 2008.04.29: In case you missed it: McMaster on NPR and Boyd on NUMB3RS
- 2008.04.27: Worth Reading (fixed link)
- 2008.04.27: Unrestricted Warfare Symposium 2008: Proceedings are available online
- 2008.04.23: Currently on the reading pile
- 2008.04.23: Of blogs and links
- 2008.04.23: Hidden Hand follow up
- 2008.04.23: Strategic Miscommunication and Smith-Mundt
- 2008.04.22: A model strategic communication plan from where you wouldn't expect it
- 2008.04.22: Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency: to some, a natural pairing, to others, not so much
- 2008.04.21: Smith-Mundt: a symposium to discuss its purpose, intent, and impact (the symposium that isn't likely)
- 2008.04.21: What's Behind the Hidden Hand is the Real Story
- 2008.04.21: Chinese arms in Zimbabwe? What about Chinese soldiers?
- 2008.04.18: ACORN recon member taken down
- 2008.04.17: The Secretaries of State and Defense on S/CRS
- 2008.04.16: RIP StratComm?
- 2008.04.15: Mapping the Iranian Blogosphere
- 2008.04.15: Understanding the value of exchanges... including inter-agency exchange with State
- 2008.04.15: Hard Power, Soft Power, Smart Power
- 2008.04.15: Secretary Rice comments on State's Office of the Coordinator of Reconstruction and Stabilization
- 2008.04.14: Public Diplomacy Conference: Murrow at Tufts
- 2008.04.14: Recent Testimony on Science Diplomacy by the NSF Director
- 2008.04.11: Benjamin Franklin Awards for Public Diplomacy
- 2008.04.10: MountainRunner: the personal interest blog
- 2008.04.10: Another Book Review of Yale Richmond's Practicing Public Diplomacy
- 2008.04.09: Information Operations From an Asian Perspective
- 2008.04.08: The paper about the divide between Public Affairs / Information Operations you never read
- 2008.04.08: Beyond Government Accountability: a challenging look at Peacekeepers
- 2008.04.08: Phil Carter goes mainstream
- 2008.04.08: When History Repeats: Troubles at VOA in 1946 are Remarkably Similar to the Troubles at VOA in 2008 (Updated)
- 2008.04.08: Book Review: Practicing Public Diplomacy
- 2008.03.28: Where's Jim Glassman? And was it enough for Sen. Coburn?
- 2008.03.26: The Future of U.N. Peacekeeping
- 2008.03.26: What is Public Diplomacy?
- 2008.03.23: Wow, nine days without a post...
- 2008.03.15: Talking about the Principles of Smith-Mundt
- 2008.03.15: Strategic Information Operations, an example
- 2008.03.15: Understanding the Purpose Public Diplomacy
- 2008.03.07: Light blogging for the next week
- 2008.03.07: Headlines and Links
- 2008.03.06: Synchronizing Information: The Importance of New Media in Conflict
- 2008.03.05: Not Afraid to Talk: our adversaries aren't, why are we?
- 2008.03.04: Measuring "Public Diplomacy"?
- 2008.03.04: Blogger's Roundtable: "Defense Officials" talk about the China Report (Updated)
- 2008.03.03: Winning Informatized Wars: The China Report
- 2008.03.03: Elvis and the Psychological Struggle
- 2008.03.01: The psychological struggle of today is unique only in the details
- 2008.03.01: Lessons on Iraq From a Founding Father
- 2008.02.29: Talking about OPSEC
- 2008.02.28: New Media and the Air Force
- 2008.02.28: Understanding Information Effects
- 2008.02.27: Two Upcoming Conferences + One You Probably Missed
- 2008.02.27: Influencing our own
- 2008.02.27: Thinking graphically
- 2008.02.26: Good luck, Welcome Back, Hope we get it right this time, and condolences
- 2008.02.25: AFRICOM: DOA or in Need of Better Marketing? No and Yes. (Updated)
- 2008.02.25: Highlighting Elizabeth Rubin's NYT piece on the Korengal Valley
- 2008.02.23: Terrorist or Nationalist? It depends, but either way, you need to know to counter the message effectively
- 2008.02.15: No posting for a few days
- 2008.02.14: Food insecurity in Iraq
- 2008.02.14: Iraq Perceptions Not Wrong Just Out of Date
- 2008.02.13: When riding a dead horse, you should dismount
- 2008.02.13: Sec Rice in need of broader vision
- 2008.02.13: Rethinking nationalism
- 2008.02.12: The Clean Team: cleaning the image
- 2008.02.11: Three Upcoming Conferences (Updated)
- 2008.02.11: Comic Book Hero Spreads Counterterrorism Message
- 2008.02.11: Pressure and Aggression No Longer Guarantee the Achievement of our Goals – We Must Consider 'Culture-Building'
- 2008.02.11: NPR: Colombians using submersibles
- 2008.02.09: Intercultural communication training
- 2008.02.09: Miranda's Departure Assessment of Embassy Baghdad
- 2008.02.08: Another example of why we need to get our info house in order
- 2008.02.08: Database of Researchers on International Private Security
- 2008.02.08: Pentagon Wants Sim Iraq to Test Propaganda
- 2008.02.08: Propaganda by UNICEF
- 2008.02.07: ConflictWiki: it's not dead, just in a coma... it's time to revive it
- 2008.02.07: Briefing: Militarization of Aid
- 2008.02.05: They are throwing the slow pitch... (UPDATED w/ AQ and kidnapping children)
- 2008.02.05: Who are the UN Peacekeepers?
- 2008.02.05: Talk: The Militarization of Diplomacy
- 2008.02.05: News from an ally
- 2008.02.05: Think Tank 1.8 in progress at ZenPundit
- 2008.02.05: Super Tuesday Voting
- 2008.02.04: 123 Meme (pre-emptive edition)
- 2008.02.02: USC Center on Public Diplomacy interviews a Blogger
- 2008.02.02: Understanding the failure: what's really wrong and why new agencies or doctrine won't be enough to fix it
- 2008.01.31: What's wrong with our public diplomacy? Is it an issue of capacity or dysfunction? (replaced)
- 2008.01.30: In case you missed it...
- 2008.01.30: SecDef Comments this weekend
- 2008.01.29: What would you ask Jim Glassman? (Updated)
- 2008.01.24: Upcoming events on Africa
- 2008.01.23: Former SecDef Calls for new USIA (Updated, again)
- 2008.01.23: “Get Me the Defence Department, Entertainment Division!”
- 2008.01.23: Return to blogging...
- 2008.01.15: Transforming U.S. Public Diplomacy
- 2008.01.14: Posting will be light...
- 2008.01.14: Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism
- 2008.01.14: There's more to it than security
- 2008.01.14: What the...?
- 2008.01.14: JCS Chairman Wants Gitmo Shut Down
- 2008.01.11: Predicting Counterinsurgency
- 2008.01.09: What's in your reading pile?
- 2008.01.09: First State, now the White House?
- 2008.01.08: America's upper classes have gone AWOL
- 2008.01.07: Blogging will be light next week
- 2008.01.06: Al Qaeda taps cell phone downloads
- 2008.01.03: In-sourcing Stabilization and Reconstruction
- 2008.01.02: Differences between Eastern and Western culture
- 2008.01.02: Shout Out to Sean Meade: Happy Birthday friend
- 2007.12.31: Admin note
- 2007.12.31: Funny how other countries see the U.S. as needy
- 2007.12.31: Kent's Imperative: Of PSDs and future assassinations
- 2007.12.31: What is the core of this gap discussion?
- 2007.12.30: Off Topic: Ironman & Blind Athletes
- 2007.12.30: Aljazeera International Television Festival - 2008
- 2007.12.28: Don't watch this film
- 2007.12.28: Child Soldiers
- 2007.12.27: Venezuela to Pick Up Hostages
- 2007.12.27: Reactions to Bhutto
- 2007.12.26: How five year olds could you take on?
- 2007.12.26: Agreed.
- 2007.12.26: Off topic tip x 2
- 2007.12.24: Developing Opportunity... now a 501c3
- 2007.12.24: WaPo: Warnings Unheeded On Guards In Iraq
- 2007.12.20: Coming soon: a fatwa to promote tin foil hats so you don't hear the wrong voice
- 2007.12.20: I might like you better if we slept together
- 2007.12.20: Recharging UAVs by clinging to power lines
- 2007.12.20: DoD to host an al-Qaeda Roundtable?
- 2007.12.18: DHS as Public Diplomat
- 2007.12.18: Done
- 2007.12.17: Ask Al Qaeda Anything!
- 2007.12.17: Newsweek and its Special Guest Commentary
- 2007.12.14: Who's Reading MountainRunner
- 2007.12.14: Singer links the addiction: Steroids and Contractors
- 2007.12.14: In the holiday spirit? Go ElfYourself!
- 2007.12.14: Monitoring what they say (and don't)
- 2007.12.14: MountainRunner around the Web
- 2007.12.12: Too busy to post
- 2007.12.12: Monitoring What You Say
- 2007.12.12: Something's stirring under the water
- 2007.12.11: James Glassman to replace Karen Hughes
- 2007.12.11: Searching MountainRunner is even easier
- 2007.12.11: Understanding the village
- 2007.12.10: Heritage on Smith-Mundt
- 2007.12.10: Give peace a chance, contribute a book to the COIN Academy
- 2007.12.10: Social engineering through flirting, robot flirting
- 2007.12.09: Off the cuff: Part 1.5 of What the SecDef Didn't Say
- 2007.12.04: Computer problems...
- 2007.12.03: DoD PD vs DoS PD
- 2007.12.03: Slight delay in posting... but stay tuned
- 2007.11.29: What the SecDef Didn't Say at Kansas But Should Have (Updated)
- 2007.11.27: Training your first responders
- 2007.11.27: Defense Secretary Urges More Spending on the "Civilian Instruments of National Security"
- 2007.11.26: Readings on Public Diplomacy, #1 (Updated)
- 2007.11.26: Private, Unmanned lighter than air vehicles tested
- 2007.11.26: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's got a blog!
- 2007.11.26: I'm back after a lull
- 2007.11.22: Happy Thanksgiving
- 2007.11.22: Replacing Karen Hughes, a video want ad
- 2007.11.22: Of the few foreign fighters in Iraq, most come from two allies
- 2007.11.21: MountainRunner around the web
- 2007.11.20: Off topic: demo by ZIP
- 2007.11.20: Perceiving Reality
- 2007.11.15: Los Angeles Times, two days late...worth getting your news from the Blogosphere
- 2007.11.15: Did FBI/CIA infiltrator color US understanding of the enemy?
- 2007.11.15: U.S. Enlists Arab Bloggers for Info War (Updated)
- 2007.11.15: Swimming in the sea of the people
- 2007.11.14: The Persian Influence
- 2007.11.14: Off topic: Modern Ruins Photographic Essays
- 2007.11.13: Doing Strategic Communications in Iraq, or not
- 2007.11.13: Quote of the day
- 2007.11.12: Bringing the real world home and knowing their real world
- 2007.11.12: Somebody, Prove my theory
- 2007.11.10: The Blog Readability Test
- 2007.11.09: History Channel show on MilBloggers...tonight
- 2007.11.09: MountainRunner around the web
- 2007.11.09: A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
- 2007.11.08: Mash-up for Thursday, November 8, 2007
- 2007.11.08: Iraq OKs Raids on Blackwater
- 2007.11.07: State wants $1.5 billion to protect Baghdad embassy, reconstruction teams
- 2007.11.07: That darn new media
- 2007.11.07: In Iraq, Blackwater Is Old News
- 2007.11.03: COIN Quotes... here's my contribution
- 2007.11.02: The Fraying of State
- 2007.11.02: 15 Minute Lunch: Strap in, shut up and hold on. We're going back.
- 2007.11.02: Into the Wild Blue goes the Greener Air Force
- 2007.11.02: Gansler Commission Cites Systemic Problems in Army Contracting
- 2007.11.01: Discussing RAND's Enlisting Madison Avenue @ USC
- 2007.11.01: When an international force is only international and not a force
- 2007.11.01: The Culture Wars continue
- 2007.10.31: The world isn't flat
- 2007.10.31: Waterboarding is Torture… Period
- 2007.10.31: Controversy: FM 3-24 Plagiarism Scandal
- 2007.10.31: Hughes is leaving
- 2007.10.31: Blogging will be light and not deep for the rest of the week
- 2007.10.29: Resilience
- 2007.10.26: State's Upcoming Blackwater Announcement
- 2007.10.25: A headline that's hard to read w/out laughing
- 2007.10.25: And now for something completely different
- 2007.10.25: Vote: Blackwater's New Logo (Updated) on Danger Room
- 2007.10.25: WTF? Pentagon vs. Hobby Shops
- 2007.10.24: The Dipnote Blog: The State Department’s Tentative Step into Global Online Dialogue
- 2007.10.24: State's Diplomatic Security chief resigns
- 2007.10.24: State's insular world
- 2007.10.23: A bigger problem than Blackwater: DynCorp (Updated)
- 2007.10.23: Neocons Heart Terrorists
- 2007.10.22: Automation not a factor in 'Robotic rampage'?
- 2007.10.22: Good news: it's not just us fighting al-Qaeda
- 2007.10.22: The new black for the stylish soldier or insurgent?
- 2007.10.21: Recent links to MountainRunner
- 2007.10.21: NATO acks 21st Century info war, says time to copy Taliban's PD strategy
- 2007.10.20: "Left of boom" example
- 2007.10.20: DOD official orders head count of private security guards
- 2007.10.20: Understanding culture
- 2007.10.19: Unintended Consequences of Armed Robots in Modern Conflict
- 2007.10.19: Proteus Monograph Series Fellowship Program and Proteus Writing Excellence Award
- 2007.10.18: Others discuss the future of MRAPs
- 2007.10.18: Implementation of ethical controls on robots
- 2007.10.18: Interesting metric on (not) engaging hearts and minds
- 2007.10.17: Know the enemy
- 2007.10.17: Robot kills 9, injuries 14
- 2007.10.16: The real Diplomacy of Deeds
- 2007.10.15: People's diplomacy
- 2007.10.15: FPRI CivMil conference... watch it if you can
- 2007.10.14: Prince Llewelyn and his dog Gelert
- 2007.10.11: America Should Hire al-Qaeda's PR Agent
- 2007.10.11: Congress Votes, Turkey Listens
- 2007.10.11: Mind the Gap: Post-Iraq Civil-Military Relations in America
- 2007.10.11: ASU's Consortium for Strategic Communication analyzes DipNote
- 2007.10.11: U.N. wants private security firms in Iraq held accountable
- 2007.10.11: Blackwater leaves IPOA and starts its own organization
- 2007.10.11: Congress continues to screw up its priorities and we still don't get privatization issue
- 2007.10.11: Revising History
- 2007.10.10: When you know too much...
- 2007.10.08: Admin note: blogging break for a couple of days
- 2007.10.04: Again, Silverstein has issues with the Blogger Roundtable
- 2007.10.04: A role model for DipNote?
- 2007.10.03: Noting DipNote's Noteworthiness (Updated)
- 2007.10.03: The Cost of Keeping the Principal off the X (Updated)
- 2007.10.03: Globalization comes to Afghanistan
- 2007.10.03: Mercenaries: Useless and Dangerous? It is a matter of choice
- 2007.09.30: DOD Approved Strategic Communication Plan for Afghanistan
- 2007.09.30: IED as a Weapon of Strategic Influence: Creating the Blackwater Nightmare
- 2007.09.28: Privatization and Unmanned Systems
- 2007.09.28: BBG Boosts Broadcasts to Burma...er, Myanmar
- 2007.09.28: Did she really say that?
- 2007.09.28: Is a Blog a News Service? Smith-Mundt on DipNote (Update)
- 2007.09.28: State makes an announcement on Blackwater... from the Blog
- 2007.09.27: Singer on Private Military Companies in Counterinsurgency
- 2007.09.26: Wednesday Mash-up for September 26, 2007
- 2007.09.26: A Second Life that can look like your First Life
- 2007.09.26: Rescinding CPA Order 17
- 2007.09.25: State Department Starts a Blog
- 2007.09.25: No Applause for State's Digital Outreach
- 2007.09.24: Karen Hughes and the Neutering of American Public Diplomacy
- 2007.09.23: Smith-Mundt
- 2007.09.21: Going to DC
- 2007.09.21: Two new blogs in town: Kings of War and CSIS's Smart Power
- 2007.09.20: Holding Contractors Accountable
- 2007.09.19: Talking about PMCs (Updated)
- 2007.09.19: Battle of the Minds: an interview with Major General Douglas Stone
- 2007.09.19: Pope 'refused meeting with Rice'
- 2007.09.18: A Good magazine
- 2007.09.17: Blackwater in Iraq
- 2007.09.17: Karen P. Hughes: I don't need no dots
- 2007.09.16: PMCs and NGOs
- 2007.09.16: VOA, Cultural Diplomacy, and Conover
- 2007.09.16: Bad News and Good News
- 2007.09.15: Off-topic: AC100 and USC v Nebraska
- 2007.09.14: Aegis wins new US contract
- 2007.09.14: When is it like the Cold War and when is it not
- 2007.09.13: Using Anthropology and Sociology
- 2007.09.13: CRS Report on IEDs
- 2007.09.13: Marc of Arabia
- 2007.09.13: Quoting history #4
- 2007.09.13: MountainRunner is Global
- 2007.09.13: Wednesday Mash-up for September 14, 2007
- 2007.09.12: China Blogging for September 14, 2007
- 2007.09.12: (Somewhat) Recent links to MountainRunner
- 2007.09.10: Petraeus and Crocker transcripts available
- 2007.09.10: Petraeus on hold
- 2007.09.09: Lost Irony
- 2007.09.09: Quoting History #3
- 2007.09.06: Quoting History #2
- 2007.09.05: Upcoming NDU Seminar: The Battle of Ideas: Messages, Mediums and Methods
- 2007.09.05: Quoting History, first in an occasional series
- 2007.09.05: There are worse places for a conference on "The Battle for Hearts and Minds"...like DC
- 2007.09.04: Colombia, Israel and rogue mercenaries
- 2007.09.04: Unmanned vehicle (UxV) news
- 2007.09.04: China leads a peacekeeping op
- 2007.09.04: Mash-Up for Tuesday, September 4, 2007
- 2007.09.04: Tony Corn's Revolutionary Thought: a Revolution in Transatlantic Affairs
- 2007.09.04: New Blogger on American Civil-Military Relations
- 2007.09.04: Talking about The White Rabbit
- 2007.08.31: When nobody is shooting, you're winning
- 2007.08.31: And now for something completely different
- 2007.08.30: Weapons that create and shape perceptions
- 2007.08.30: Enlisting Madison Avenue by RAND
- 2007.08.30: Shaping perceptions
- 2007.08.30: Why does the US continue to lack high-speed Internet connectivity?
- 2007.08.29: Keep Rove off welfare, give him Hughes' job
- 2007.08.29: Support MountainRunner
- 2007.08.28: Admin Note: A work in progress
- 2007.08.27: Admin Note
- 2007.08.24: LTC John Nagl on the Daily Show
- 2007.08.24: Better tech isn't always the answer
- 2007.08.24: Time for a little catch-up
- 2007.08.20: Measuring Success
- 2007.08.13: Monday Mash-up for August 13, 2007
- 2007.08.10: Two surveys on robots and war
- 2007.08.10: The Danger is All Around
- 2007.08.10: Mash-Up for Friday, August 10, 2007
- 2007.08.08: Hizballah lays cable to own local comm network
- 2007.08.07: Read: Attacking the al-Qaeda Narrative
- 2007.08.07: Survey: Perceiving Robots in War
- 2007.08.06: "No one is actually at war except the Armed Forces, their US civilian contractors, and the CIA"
- 2007.08.06: Monday Mash-Up August 6, 2007
- 2007.08.05: Blogger's Roundtables and PRTs in Iraq
- 2007.08.05: About MountainRunner (Updated)
- 2007.08.02: Shift Happens
- 2007.08.01: Targeting Public Opinion is nothing new
- 2007.08.01: If the surge is working, why are we still losing?
- 2007.08.01: UN Accountability, again
- 2007.08.01: Qatari Cartoon on Terrorism
- 2007.07.31: Talking about talking in Iraq, Nineveh specifically
- 2007.07.31: Agent-Based Modeling of Irregular Warfare (ABMIW)
- 2007.07.31: While talking about Public Diplomacy in Cyberspace... news on Second Life (updated)
- 2007.07.31: Perception management by the insurgency
- 2007.07.30: Importance of images and perceptions
- 2007.07.30: Monday Mash-Up for July 30, 2007
- 2007.07.29: Update on the America's Crusader Castle in Baghdad
- 2007.07.27: The Future of Warfare?
- 2007.07.26: DOD Blogger Outreach update
- 2007.07.25: Resurrecting history: facing the unknown, destructive and negative threat
- 2007.07.25: Tour update: Rasmussen and Cofidis are out
- 2007.07.25: Tour de France
- 2007.07.24: Movie Review: No End in Sight
- 2007.07.24: On the Blogger Outreach (updated)
- 2007.07.24: IEDs as "Weapons of Strategic Influence"
- 2007.07.24: Vino tests positive, Astana pulls team
- 2007.07.23: "We in the United States are in deep technological trouble."
- 2007.07.23: For Official Secret Squirrel Use Only: the ACORN
- 2007.07.21: I want that
- 2007.07.19: Thinking robots
- 2007.07.19: Feeling left out...
- 2007.07.18: Armut Bekämpfen mit "Blackface" (updated)
- 2007.07.18: I'm sure the troops feel their pain
- 2007.07.18: "Sorry honey, I can't buy you diamonds or chocolate... it wouldn't be right"
- 2007.07.17: Shinseki got his number
- 2007.07.17: Reaching out: who is Swedish Meatballs?
- 2007.07.17: Monday Mash-Up July 16, 2007
- 2007.07.17: Matthew Yglesias thinks VSs TDF coverage is lacking... yup
- 2007.07.16: That squirrel might really be watching you
- 2007.07.16: Anthropology and war
- 2007.07.16: Linking to and from
- 2007.07.14: Donate to the Smart / Small Wars Journal Empire
- 2007.07.12: Talking about talking
- 2007.07.11: Upcoming movie screening: No End in Sight
- 2007.07.11: AFRICOM gets a commander
- 2007.07.10: Required Reading: two posts on Small Wars Journal
- 2007.07.09: Monday Mash-Up for July 9, 2007
- 2007.07.05: Contracting out national security: connecting the dots of the media surge
- 2007.07.05: Karen Hughes: our chief public diplomat
- 2007.07.05: Growing Google
- 2007.07.04: Remembering the Fourth of July
- 2007.07.03: Adults need not be present
- 2007.07.02: Back from the mountains...
- 2007.06.30: MountainRunner is off to the mountains
- 2007.06.30: Question to my readers
- 2007.06.30: Failed London bombing quote
- 2007.06.28: COIN Manual came in the mail today, and a post on FM 3-24 by Nagl came yesterday
- 2007.06.28: Bullets on Military Contractors
- 2007.06.28: Discussing the War of Images and Ideas at the Small Wars Council
- 2007.06.27: Kilcullen on the Walls in Iraq
- 2007.06.27: The Sunni Insurgency and their Media: The War of Images and Ideas
- 2007.06.26: The War of Images and Ideas: a reality in modern conflict
- 2007.06.26: Who visits USGCOIN.gov?
- 2007.06.26: Enemy propaganda in cyberspace? Don't tell Karen Hughes
- 2007.06.25: Public Diplomacy's Reality Check
- 2007.06.25: Another way to Add MountainRunner to your Google Page
- 2007.06.22: American Intelligence Community Horror Story #4786
- 2007.06.22: When It Comes to The Battle of Ideas, The U.S. Has No General
- 2007.06.22: Greg Bear on Jon Stewart
- 2007.06.21: SIGMA follow-up
- 2007.06.21: Reading: mixing virtual with physical
- 2007.06.20: Filling Baghdad: Rice reacts
- 2007.06.20: Understanding mission requirements, or What is the State Doing?
- 2007.06.20: Liberal Wikians
- 2007.06.20: Being Knowledgeable
- 2007.06.19: Chinese Tuesday
- 2007.06.18: Monday Mash-Up for June 18
- 2007.06.17: Amazon 1 : Google 0
- 2007.06.15: Finally, a National Strategy on Public Diplomacy (updated)
- 2007.06.15: Counterinsurgency guidance
- 2007.06.15: Evolution of American Civil-Military Relations in Four Quotes
- 2007.06.14: Questioning American public diplomacy...
- 2007.06.14: On the "money/fantasy machine"
- 2007.06.14: CAC "Information Operations" writing competition
- 2007.06.13: Looking at old guides for GI's in World War II: Iraq and Britain
- 2007.06.12: Unwarranted Attack on Petraeus Aide (SWJ Blog)
- 2007.06.12: Not on Bush's Watch
- 2007.06.12: Bringing in the locals
- 2007.06.11: Tactics and Strategy: adding to the Brave New War commentary
- 2007.06.11: U.S. Africa Command has a website
- 2007.06.11: Monday Mash-Up
- 2007.06.10: Speaking of pirates
- 2007.06.10: Separating IO and PA
- 2007.06.09: Critiquing Brave New War
- 2007.06.08: Book Review: Brave New War
- 2007.06.06: On War... Czar
- 2007.06.06: DHS S&T Conference: Post Mortem
- 2007.06.06: Unrelated Distractions
- 2007.06.06: Summing Up SIGMA (Updated)
- 2007.05.31: DHS and Sigma
- 2007.05.29: Highlighting mission failure: the Opium Metric
- 2007.05.29: Shortsighted strategy comes back to haunt
- 2007.05.27: Available for Consultation and Contract Work
- 2007.05.27: Baghdad Embassy: Photo Update
- 2007.05.27: Gold for Arms: More On Peacekeeper Immunity
- 2007.05.27: Contractors: Issue du Jour
- 2007.05.27: New Custom Search Engine on the home page
- 2007.05.26: Interviewing Rumsfeld
- 2007.05.26: More on the Iraq Nationalism Debate
- 2007.05.25: Unintended Consequences: Blue Helmet Edition
- 2007.05.25: DoD Report on China Military Power (updated)
- 2007.05.23: More on Walls
- 2007.05.21: Failing the (Domestic) Information War
- 2007.05.21: The War over Image
- 2007.05.21: Discussing Nationalism
- 2007.05.21: Eddie on China's Charm Offensive
- 2007.05.20: Fantasy Combat System
- 2007.05.20: Discussing Iraq
- 2007.05.18: UCLA Forum: Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Between Truth and Reality
- 2007.05.18: Holding Security Contractors Accountable
- 2007.05.18: DHS S&T Conference: two panels worth attending
- 2007.05.16: Confirming the Destruction of Iraq
- 2007.05.16: Playing politics with soldiers
- 2007.05.16: Monday Mash-Up
- 2007.05.15: Sporadic Posting
- 2007.05.14: Why the Reconstruction Failed and Why State is to Blame
- 2007.05.14: Andrew Bacevich Jr. Killed in Iraq
- 2007.05.09: War as Theater
- 2007.05.09: Updating the Blogroll
- 2007.05.09: Where are You?
- 2007.05.08: World famous book, now available in paperback
- 2007.05.08: Monday Mash-Up
- 2007.05.08: Chinese Tuesday
- 2007.05.04: It'll be Quiet on the Mountain for a couple of days
- 2007.05.04: News from the Small Wars Journal Empire of Knowledge
- 2007.05.03: Rewriting History
- 2007.05.03: Information Warfare
- 2007.05.02: Los Angeles Anti-Terror hub as model
- 2007.05.01: Chinese Tuesday
- 2007.05.01: When is the Army Broken?
- 2007.04.30: Sizing and Shaping the military
- 2007.04.30: Problems on the Horizon
- 2007.04.30: Monday Mash-up
- 2007.04.29: Feeling the War
- 2007.04.28: Science Diplomacy
- 2007.04.28: A Failure in Generalship
- 2007.04.28: Another Brick in the Wall, Part II: Response to the Urban Tourniquet
- 2007.04.26: Give peace a chance
- 2007.04.26: Book Review: The Just Prince (+ Sulwan al-Muta' Fi 'Udwan al-Atba')
- 2007.04.25: And now for something completely different
- 2007.04.24: Renaming the war
- 2007.04.24: Chinese Tuesday
- 2007.04.23: Another brick in the wall
- 2007.04.23: Book Review: Blackwater
- 2007.04.23: Monday Mash-up
- 2007.04.23: Book Review: Children at War
- 2007.04.23: China's FCS...
- 2007.04.18: On Private Military Companies
- 2007.04.18: On Counterinsurgency: something to read, something to listen to
- 2007.04.18: How peacekeeping works... from the BBC
- 2007.04.17: China and Peacekeeping
- 2007.04.17: Discussing War Powers
- 2007.04.15: Book Review: Losing Hearts and Minds?
- 2007.04.11: Light posting for a few days
- 2007.04.11: Will people listen to a General?
- 2007.04.10: Monday Mash-up
- 2007.04.09: Readings on civil-military relations
- 2007.04.09: When a general writes a column, is opinion or "local news"?
- 2007.04.06: Who should manage US public diplomacy, State or Defense?
- 2007.04.06: Breaking the Army
- 2007.04.05: Renaming GWOT
- 2007.04.04: Let Freedom Ring (updated)
- 2007.04.04: Admin note on RSS
- 2007.04.03: Tuesday's China posting
- 2007.04.02: What's in a name? Plenty.
- 2007.04.02: More on the Civilian Response Corps
- 2007.04.02: Monday's Mash-up
- 2007.04.02: Eddie, we're glad you're back
- 2007.03.27: We interrupt the silence to bring you this message
- 2007.03.25: Understanding the Enemy: Echevarria and Cordesman and the Long War
- 2007.03.25: Is Somalia seeking Chinese protection?
- 2007.03.24: NYT Book Review of Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
- 2007.03.23: Public Diplomacy on the web... by Israel
- 2007.03.23: Smart Power
- 2007.03.23: Masthead change
- 2007.03.23: Public Diplomacy, Strategic Communications and Unrestricted Warfare
- 2007.03.17: Blog Purpose
- 2007.03.16: China in Africa: perceptions
- 2007.03.15: AFRICOM news
- 2007.03.15: China and Peacekeeping
- 2007.03.14: On General Peter Pace
- 2007.03.13: Book Review: Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security
- 2007.03.12: Blogroll Addition
- 2007.03.11: Insurgent Trajectories
- 2007.03.11: Recruiting Videos
- 2007.03.11: People for the Ethical Treatment of Robots
- 2007.03.09: Book Review: Web of Deceit
- 2007.03.07: Blog Roll Additions (revised)
- 2007.03.07: Civil Reserve Corps, SysAdmin, and reality
- 2007.03.07: Militarization of public diplomacy
- 2007.03.05: Monday's Mash-up
- 2007.03.03: Smart Power Equalizer (part III): a matter of Time (revised)
- 2007.03.01: On military readiness and what happens after deployment
- 2007.03.01: Death Race 2007
- 2007.03.01: Smart Power Equalizer (part II): disaggregation
- 2007.02.26: SaharaRunner? Don't think so...
- 2007.02.25: I enjoy discussing 4GW...
- 2007.02.25: Blogroll Rundown
- 2007.02.25: A World without America wouldn't start a Terror-Free Oil Initiative
- 2007.02.24: More on Contractor deaths
- 2007.02.23: Hmmm, good idea
- 2007.02.23: Restating KIA numbers in Iraq: adding the "coalition", er, contractor deaths
- 2007.02.23: Breaking the stovepipes
- 2007.02.23: US Covert Action in Britain Today
- 2007.02.22: Using ICT in the Gap
- 2007.02.22: Smart Power Equalizer (part I): finding the mix
- 2007.02.20: ConflictWiki (Updated)
- 2007.02.20: Book Review: Insurgents, Terrorists, And Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat
- 2007.02.16: Testing a new look
- 2007.02.16: Paying for war
- 2007.02.15: Book Review: Warriors and Politicians: US Civil-Military Relations Under Stress
- 2007.02.08: Bauer & Aqua Teen Hunger Force cross paths...
- 2007.02.07: Update on Halliburton/KBR/Blackwater relationship
- 2007.02.07: The Army just confirmed what everybody knew
- 2007.02.06: AFRICOM news
- 2007.02.05: Blackwater and Christmas Eve
- 2007.02.04: Posing the question: Is the SysAdmin Constitutional?
- 2007.02.04: Distribute the Road Rage Memo in Iraq
- 2007.02.02: Miscellany
- 2007.02.01: Update on the US Embassy in Baghdad
- 2007.02.01: Can't fight without the right equipment
- 2007.02.01: IISS on complex irregular warfare: the West is Failing
- 2007.02.01: Institutional Culture Clash preventing culture understanding
- 2007.02.01: More on the CCR, this time from Max Boot
- 2007.01.31: Discussing Smart Power
- 2007.01.31: Washington Times book review: public diplomacy in the "Global War on Terror"
- 2007.01.29: TV: DHS and Contractors
- 2007.01.26: Encryption and the Terrorists
- 2007.01.26: How the world is more nuanced than a Clash of Civilizations
- 2007.01.25: "Congress has no Constitutional power to micromanage a war"?
- 2007.01.25: The President's Civil Reserve Corps
- 2007.01.23: Petraeus on Goldwater-Nichols & Private Security Contractors
- 2007.01.21: Influencing public opinion
- 2007.01.21: "No End in Sight", a movie looking at the making of the Iraq we know now
- 2007.01.18: Two GAO Reports of interest released today
- 2007.01.12: Visualizing connectivity, civilization, readers of this blog
- 2007.01.11: Somalia: what was happening last year about this time?
- 2007.01.11: Forecasting the private security industry
- 2007.01.10: Heads up on President Bush's New and Improved Strategy tonight
- 2007.01.08: Part II - Success in Iraq
- 2007.01.07: Eleven steps to Success in Iraq
- 2007.01.06: Observations on AFRICOM & new CENTCOM
- 2007.01.05: Linking Robots and Mercenaries
- 2007.01.05: The Book ATM: recreating America's Corners
- 2007.01.05: Politics and the military
- 2007.01.03: Flash: Private Security Contractors are now culpable for their actions
- 2007.01.03: "I Find No Evidence That Makes Me Agree bin Laden Was Behind 9/11"
- 2007.01.03: The Protocols of the elders of Qom?
- 2007.01.02: Private Domestic Security Companies
- 2007.01.01: Domestic security is hampered by an inattentive Pentagon and White House
- 2007.01.01: Infidel T-Shirt... and reaching out
- 2007.01.01: China in Africa, the refrain repeats
- 2006.12.31: Milestone: 3,000 US military deaths in Iraq
- 2006.12.30: Kilcullen, Griffith and a brief comment on COIN
- 2006.12.30: What will happen if the Army doesn't get the appropriations it's asking for?
- 2006.12.28: Conference review: "Understanding the Privatization of National Security"
- 2006.12.28: Book Reviews: Imperial Life in the Emerald City & My Year in Iraq
- 2006.12.22: AQ InfoOp: "Safe Passage if you Quit"
- 2006.12.22: Update on the Iraqi jail break by "security contractors"
- 2006.12.21: A Great Christmas e-Postcard
- 2006.12.20: The US Military and US Public Diplomacy: creating the image we want?
- 2006.12.19: The inevitable happened: "Security Contractors" break a man out of an Iraqi jail... and a GAO report is released
- 2006.12.19: Good post on Turkey
- 2006.12.18: How not to win the Long War
- 2006.12.18: The new book club: Shelfari
- 2006.12.17: LOGCAP, Halliburton and working on saving the gov't money? Not exactly...
- 2006.12.15: Reality bites: deeper issues of US security
- 2006.12.14: Crimes by UN Peacekeepers
- 2006.12.14: Wearing down and out the military
- 2006.12.14: Interesting analysis of NYT most emailed list
- 2006.12.13: The Press Secretary: I speak for myself, not the President
- 2006.12.13: LA Times: Pentagon to push for more troops
- 2006.12.12: Army's Cash Crunch shows COIN isn't a priority
- 2006.12.12: What's news and what's not
- 2006.12.11: New blog on Iraq
- 2006.12.09: Commercial Product: Nigeria Election Watch
- 2006.12.08: Weapon of Mass Impoverishment
- 2006.12.08: China, UN Peacekeeping, and Public Diplomacy
- 2006.12.06: A quick assessment of the Iraq Study Group Report
- 2006.12.05: Counting the Contractors in Iraq
- 2006.12.03: Book Review: The Abolition of Privateering and the Declaration of Paris
- 2006.12.03: The big assumption: numbers equal effect
- 2006.11.29: Book Review: Mary Dudziak's Cold War Civil Rights
- 2006.11.28: Is it Public Diplomacy or Information Operations?
- 2006.11.26: "Shared Values" must really be dead
- 2006.11.25: An interview with UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jane Holl Lute
- 2006.11.25: Contractors Rarely Held Responsible for Misdeeds in Iraq
- 2006.11.25: China and Africa, a brief update
- 2006.11.25: China, Pakistan and Free Trade Agreements
- 2006.11.24: Recruiting and the CBO Report
- 2006.11.22: The Other Iraq
- 2006.11.22: "One of the greatest blunders we have made"
- 2006.11.16: Upcoming conference in Brussels on PSCs
- 2006.11.15: Interesting book: Private Actors and Security Governance
- 2006.11.14: China's Africa Policy coming to Latin America
- 2006.11.13: Aid to Iraq: Remembering the difference between intent and reality
- 2006.11.12: United States Government Counterinsurgency Initiative
- 2006.11.10: Rumsfeld and Public Diplomacy
- 2006.11.10: Rummy says Farewell at Kansas State
- 2006.11.10: Reporters without Borders: dodging the blame
- 2006.10.30: Project Valour IT and supporting the severely wounded
- 2006.10.29: Artillery Usage, up to OIF
- 2006.10.28: One Year Left for the Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction
- 2006.10.28: Paving the way for US Military Operations in CONUS
- 2006.10.22: "Arrogance and stupidity": the fallout from an honest statement
- 2006.10.22: If you're going to oppose Private Military Companies, understand the issues first
- 2006.10.21: On mountains...
- 2006.10.20: American Mercenaries of Public Diplomacy: After Action Report
- 2006.10.12: Book Review - Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
- 2006.10.10: American Mercenaries of Public Diplomacy
- 2006.09.24: Linking Iraq and the 'War on Terror'
- 2006.09.23: ABC News: Iraqi Sunni support of insurgency up to 75% from 14% 3yrs ago
- 2006.09.20: 'Bush would send troops inside Pakistan...'
- 2006.09.19: Looking into Meyer's National Military Strategy
- 2006.09.16: More on Civil v Military... an Update on the Supporting Revised Tribunals
- 2006.09.15: New Poll on Pentagon's Role in Public Diplomacy
- 2006.09.15: Response to Comment on Powell / Morality
- 2006.09.15: Powell reminds us of the importance of morality
- 2006.09.14: Miscellanea
- 2006.09.14: al-Qaeda and the Marine barracks in Beirut
- 2006.09.12: Where's the Outrage? asks Karen Hughes... Well, let's see how we created a mute button
- 2006.09.12: Stuff to read... at Armchair Generalist
- 2006.09.11: Five Years Later: a National Strategy on Terror, Tribunal Rules, and Managing an Image
- 2006.09.08: Corn, Clausewitz, and the True Nature of Conflict
- 2006.09.08: Will Krispy Kreme be next?
- 2006.09.08: Deconstructing Rumsfeld
- 2006.09.07: Glocalization of an American icon: Krispy Kreme
- 2006.09.06: Miscellanea
- 2006.09.05: "The answer to guerrilla insurgency is neither brute force nor abject surrender and flight"
- 2006.09.05: Quote on War
- 2006.09.05: From Opinio Juris: Morse Code in Filigree?
- 2006.09.03: A look back: Select headlines from DOD Public Diplomacy and Public Relations Efforts
- 2006.09.02: It's just not like that anymore
- 2006.08.31: The New (contracted) USIA
- 2006.08.31: Hybrids and National Security
- 2006.08.31: AFRICOM: focusing America's attention
- 2006.08.30: Recruiting Update
- 2006.08.29: Of Information Operations, DIME, and America's Ambassadors
- 2006.08.29: State cleans up
- 2006.08.29: "The Best Of All Possible Ambassadors"
- 2006.08.24: US Military Renews Outreach to Iraqi Public
- 2006.08.22: Custer Battles is Guilty, maybe not of fraud, but at least of treason
- 2006.08.20: Bumper Sticker I'd Like to See
- 2006.08.19: "Afghan Road Rage": on the frontline of Public Diplomacy, the real PAOs
- 2006.08.16: links for 2006-08-17
- 2006.08.14: Spanish police find 'drugs' sub
- 2006.08.14: Dell Laptop Batteries... the kinetic laptop?
- 2006.08.14: Blair's Long War Vision
- 2006.08.11: links for 2006-08-12
- 2006.08.11: Does the MountainRunner run mountains?
- 2006.08.10: 50% pay increase for the SAS?
- 2006.08.10: Big CBRN or Little CBRN?
- 2006.08.09: links for 2006-08-10
- 2006.08.09: Proliferation of the Sub
- 2006.08.09: Update on Contractor Deaths
- 2006.08.09: Army Recruiting Update, the Good and the Bad
- 2006.08.08: links for 2006-08-09
- 2006.08.08: We see cost-overruns, they see a lack of commitment
- 2006.08.08: National means "state" or "federal"?
- 2006.08.08: From the National Counterterrorism Center, a new travel guide
- 2006.08.07: links for 2006-08-08
- 2006.08.07: ONR-NDIA Conference Notes
- 2006.08.04: Nigeria and Islam, two brief facts
- 2006.08.02: Quick post: ONR and Science Diplomacy, Nagl and COIN
- 2006.08.01: "Where's My Blue Helmet?" Wherever it is, the people (and their bosses) wearing it are likely getting paid by SC
- 2006.08.01: Day One At the Naval S&T Conference 2006
- 2006.07.30: Public Diplomacy is Advertising
- 2006.07.30: Unmanned Warfare news blast
- 2006.07.29: Sport as Diplomacy? USA Swimming says absolutely
- 2006.07.28: More on Army Readiness: a topic of increasing frequency
- 2006.07.28: What is "War"? Some definitions
- 2006.07.27: UPDATE: MSNBC response to White House linkage to AQ
- 2006.07.27: Civil-Military Divide: SecDef battling the military
- 2006.07.27: Landis & a positive test?
- 2006.07.26: DC, Nagl, Galula, and the new Army COIN manual
- 2006.07.26: Book Review: A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq
- 2006.07.25: 2006 Naval S&T Partnership Conference
- 2006.07.25: Defense Science Board to Study Impact of Google, Blogs, et al
- 2006.07.25: Last comments re TdF
- 2006.07.25: Warning signal as Army recruiting standards fall
- 2006.07.24: links for 2006-07-25
- 2006.07.24: A question of retention in the Army
- 2006.07.24: Quoting Sneakers
- 2006.07.21: NYT Letter to the Editor: Training Foreign Armies
- 2006.07.21: PSYOPS propaganda goes mainstream
- 2006.07.21: GAO Faults Pentagon Oversight
- 2006.07.20: CBC's review of Shadow Company
- 2006.07.18: Recruiting Dilemma
- 2006.07.18: Iraqis don't admit they work at the US Embassy
- 2006.07.17: links for 2006-07-18
- 2006.07.17: Iraq expenditures impacting US bases
- 2006.07.08: Quote on the US Foreign Policy
- 2006.07.07: Saudi Columnist blasting Hamas captive-taking
- 2006.07.06: links for 2006-07-07
- 2006.07.06: Time to revise the adage that amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics
- 2006.07.05: The Case for Cultural Diplomacy: Engaging Foreign Audiences
- 2006.07.04: Cultural Warfare, continued
- 2006.07.03: Knowing the terrain, both physical and social
- 2006.07.02: "Recall the facts as we knew them in March 2003"
- 2006.07.02: World Sporting Events... the distractions
- 2006.07.02: Cultural Warfare, a quote
- 2006.06.30: More investment in Nigeria
- 2006.06.28: Book Review: The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730
- 2006.06.28: The explosion of posts...
- 2006.06.28: Islamic Law in Nigeria - Council on Foreign Relations
- 2006.06.28: Cisco Strengthens Presence in Nigeria, West Africa
- 2006.06.28: Nigeria delivers final debt payments to Paris Club
- 2006.06.28: Blood and Oil
- 2006.06.28: State Department Official Says Internet Aids Spread of Democracy - US Department of State
- 2006.06.28: China's ZTE to produce GSM phones in Nigeria
- 2006.06.28: Brown in $15bn education vow to poor nations
- 2006.06.28: Nigeria 'Nobody knows tomorrow'
- 2006.06.28: Google's hidden payroll
- 2006.06.28: Watchdog seeks lost Africa wealth
- 2006.06.28: Google grows up... and gets lobbyists
- 2006.06.28: In Nigeria, Things Fall Apart - New York Times
- 2006.06.28: Nigeria Pressed by U.N. Court to Arrest Liberia's Ex-Leader
- 2006.06.28: The Huawei Way: The telecom giant is either a security menace or a real comer
- 2006.06.28: Obasanjo urges female lawmakers to assist rural women
- 2006.06.28: Nigeria, Chinese firm sign investment MOU
- 2006.06.28: Lessons from Biafra: The Structuration of Socially Relevant Science in the Research and Production D
- 2006.06.28: Nigeria: Corruption - Tough talk, tough action
- 2006.06.28: Nigeria: Retail's "Sale of the Century"
- 2006.06.28: Nigeria Economy: Privatisations make headway
- 2006.06.28: NITEL Launches Broadband ADSL Services
- 2006.06.28: NCC Industry Statistics - Subscriber Data
- 2006.06.28: Interconnection Costs
- 2006.06.28: SkypeOut Rates - All Destinations
- 2006.06.28: Nigerian Communications Commission - Other Regulators
- 2006.06.28: NCC Penalizes Globalcom for refusal to Reconnect PTO's
- 2006.06.28: Nigerian Communications Commission - Interconnection rates between mobile and fixed operators
- 2006.06.28: FAO Country Pasture / Forage Resource Profile
- 2006.06.28: Nigeria Language Map
- 2006.06.28: Working Paper Access to Information
- 2006.06.28: Index of Economic Freedom 2006 - Nigeria
- 2006.06.28: The Role of Transparency and Accountability for Economic Development in Resource-rich Countries,
- 2006.06.28: US State Department profile on Nigeria (02/06)
- 2006.06.28: FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System - Nigeria
- 2006.06.28: Population Density of Nigeria
- 2006.06.28: Satellite Image
- 2006.06.28: Africa Policy Outlook 2006
- 2006.06.28: Media Rights Agenda: Weekly Debates on FOI Airing on Lagos Television
- 2006.06.28: Google Offers a Bird's-Eye View, And Some Governments Tremble - The New York Times
- 2006.06.28: MTC Report - Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile Phones in the Arab World
- 2006.06.28: Deploying Low-Energy ICT - A technical overview
- 2006.06.28: Microsoft Targets Digital Divide
- 2006.06.28: Down to the Wire - Thomas Bleha
- 2006.06.28: Which Broadband Nation? - Response to Bleha
- 2006.06.28: PRC FM Visits Africa to Discuss Exploitation of Resources
- 2006.06.28: Nigerian Authorities Accuse Kano of Using 'Foreign' Help to train 'Jihadists'
- 2006.06.28: Korea, Nigeria to Cooperate on Energy
- 2006.06.28: Chinese Energy Giant to Buy Stake in Nigerian Oil Field - The New York Times
- 2006.06.28: ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog - Measuring Broadband's Economic Impact
- 2006.06.28: Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone - New York Times
- 2006.06.23: NPR Interview with General Peter Pace
- 2006.06.23: Off Topic: Visually Impaired Triathletes
- 2006.06.19: "Army of Two"
- 2006.06.18: Marine life, up close
- 2006.06.17: Nigeria: $10 Million to Fertilize African Farms
- 2006.06.16: Embassy's are representative of the state. So what does the new American Embassy in Baghdad say?
- 2006.06.15: How not to conduct Cultural Warfare
- 2006.06.15: ICT-enabled politics
- 2006.06.14: DynCorp becomes a "real" business
- 2006.06.14: News of Google's Expansion
- 2006.06.13: Quote of the Moment
- 2006.06.11: links for 2006-06-12
- 2006.06.05: US Army (re)learns harsh lessons in history
- 2006.06.03: Gap Post
- 2006.05.11: DoD Announces Increase in Foreign Language Pay
- 2006.05.10: links for 2006-05-11
- 2006.05.10: The Importance of Phase IV Planning, a quote
- 2006.05.09: links for 2006-05-10
- 2006.05.08: links for 2006-05-09
- 2006.05.07: links for 2006-05-08
- 2006.05.03: links for 2006-05-04
- 2006.05.03: ICT at work: Using laptops to steal cars
- 2006.04.30: Before reforming public diplomacy, we need a strategy
- 2006.04.28: links for 2006-04-29
- 2006.04.27: links for 2006-04-28
- 2006.04.26: links for 2006-04-27
- 2006.04.26: Erasmus quote on War
- 2006.04.24: PLA to disallow tattoos
- 2006.04.24: Bush's approval ratings slide to new low in CNN Poll
- 2006.04.23: links for 2006-04-24
- 2006.04.23: Air Force One Graffiti Hoax
- 2006.04.23: Navy: The United States Navy is not patroling Somali Waters
- 2006.04.22: links for 2006-04-23
- 2006.04.22: Humor: alternative mil / swat hand signals
- 2006.04.22: Asian sea piracy information centre to be established
- 2006.04.22: Private Security Companies of the Malacca Strait
- 2006.04.21: links for 2006-04-22
- 2006.04.21: American Military Partnership Makes Big Hit in The Gambia
- 2006.04.21: Military Invests in Partner Nations' Contingency Capabilities
- 2006.04.21: Terror Threat Near Ghana
- 2006.04.21: US War Debt is more than Just Dollars
- 2006.04.21: AFRICOM?
- 2006.04.20: Review of the Blackwater Lawsuit
- 2006.04.20: links for 2006-04-21
- 2006.04.20: Did we send too many troops to Iraq and scare off the flower-throwers?
- 2006.04.20: Somali Government Agrees, or Not, to US Navy Help
- 2006.04.19: links for 2006-04-20
- 2006.04.19: Young Officers Leaving Army at a High Rate
- 2006.04.18: Private Radio Stations in Ethiopia
- 2006.04.18: links for 2006-04-19
- 2006.04.18: Military to Protect U.S. Aid Teams in Iraq
- 2006.04.18: A General With an Alternative Vision
- 2006.04.17: links for 2006-04-18
- 2006.04.17: Pentagon's Chief Watchdog Joins Company that Owns Blackwater
- 2006.04.17: Bush on Private Military Companies
- 2006.04.16: links for 2006-04-17
- 2006.04.15: links for 2006-04-16
- 2006.04.15: The Generals versus Rumsfeld
- 2006.04.14: links for 2006-04-15
- 2006.04.14: What did Rumsfeld Know and When did He Know It
- 2006.04.14: More on Fortress Baghdad, er, the New American Embassy
- 2006.04.14: Rumsfeld on USIA
- 2006.04.14: Reading books to fight police corruption
- 2006.04.14: Revisiting Accountability
- 2006.04.14: Cobra II: PBS Interview with Gordon and Trainor
- 2006.04.13: links for 2006-04-14
- 2006.04.13: New embassy design?
- 2006.04.12: links for 2006-04-13
- 2006.04.12: Nigerian Saying: "The chicken that is searching for food in the rain must be very hungry"
- 2006.04.11: links for 2006-04-12
- 2006.04.11: Rising Energy Costs Complicate U.S. Diplomacy
- 2006.04.10: links for 2006-04-11
- 2006.04.08: Blundering to Baghdad
- 2006.04.05: Blackwater & Peacekeeping Operations
- 2006.04.05: Africa in the QDR
- 2006.04.04: How many tactical mistakes equal a strategic mistake?
- 2006.04.04: South Korean ship seized off Somalia
- 2006.04.04: New Conventions for 'terrorists'
- 2006.04.04: Thousands of tactical errors
- 2006.04.04: Iran is not Iraq
- 2006.04.03: The drums bang louder for Rumsfeld
- 2006.04.03: Nigerian referees OK'd to take bribes
- 2006.03.29: Private Security Company Association Iraq
- 2006.03.28: Enemy Within: Iraqi Insurgents at Work
- 2006.03.28: Lucent Talks Raise Issue of Security (Updated)
- 2006.03.28: Where is the Accountability and Leadership?
- 2006.03.27: USN Public Diplomacy in West Africa
- 2006.03.27: Has State ceded all responsibility to DoD?
- 2006.03.27: Who is biased now? Comparing LAT and AJ
- 2006.03.27: Navy Won't File Charges in Iraq Contractor Fracas
- 2006.03.27: Skype = backdoor?
- 2006.03.27: Prime time for PMCs
- 2006.03.27: Iran and al-Qaeda
- 2006.03.27: The Nyala
- 2006.03.27: Terrorists or criminals
- 2006.03.27: Flawed Zogby Poll?
- 2006.03.27: DHS Gets Another F in Computer Security
- 2006.03.27: Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says - New York Times
- 2006.03.22: Trillion Dollar War and the Oil Albatross
- 2006.03.22: ERSM Video Follow Up (Updated)
- 2006.03.22: Nike & Google providing social networking through Microsoft technology
- 2006.03.22: Other Africas: Images of Nigerian Modernity
- 2006.03.13: Slight pause on posting...
- 2006.03.11: You are as likely to lose an email as the checked bag on your next flight?
- 2006.03.09: Accountability and Civil Wars
- 2006.03.08: Military censorship, it's not what you think
- 2006.03.07: Pathetic and Disgusting
- 2006.03.07: Blogging w/out Attribution
- 2006.03.07: Extremism, Terror, and the Future of Conflict
- 2006.03.06: Simulated Media for Pentagon Exercises
- 2006.03.05: Phase IV, 4GW, and Comprehensive Solutions
- 2006.03.05: There Is No Buck
- 2006.03.05: Terrorists and Combatants: Worth Distinguishing?
- 2006.03.05: Cold War Diplomacy in Iraq
- 2006.03.05: Relations with the Turkish street is crashing
- 2006.03.05: There is no Clash of Civiliziations... continued
- 2006.03.04: OLPC $100 laptop finalized?
- 2006.03.04: Shadow Company movie review
- 2006.03.04: UK broadband getting faster
- 2006.03.04: Media Raid in Kenya Sparks Cyber Outcry
- 2006.03.03: New Piracy resource coming online
- 2006.03.02: Out of Uniform, Out of Touch?
- 2006.03.02: 85% Believe Iraq over 9/11
- 2006.03.02: Military Vets Runnings Against Republicans
- 2006.03.02: Rattle a snake, get bit by a snake - Kenyan Censorship
- 2006.03.01: The Net as Commons? (continued)
- 2006.02.27: The Apache Gattling Gun
- 2006.02.22: The misleading theory of Fourth Generation Warfare
- 2006.02.22: US Military practicing effective public diplomacy in Africa
- 2006.02.22: US "military infiltration into Africa"
- 2006.02.22: Cutting China's military fat for muscle
- 2006.02.22: Fiber Optics connecting Ethiopia and Sudan
- 2006.02.22: FON: sharing connectivity
- 2006.02.19: Quote for the Month
- 2006.02.19: Question about Commons
- 2006.02.17: Rumsfeld: Al Qaeda has better PR - Feb 17, 2006
- 2006.02.14: PMC Fraud: Tip of the Iceberg?
- 2006.02.13: Microsoft as an International Actor
- 2006.02.13: Hunting in East Africa
- 2006.02.11: Cartoon News
- 2006.02.10: Google and American Foreign Policy
- 2006.02.08: Practicing Effective Public Diplomacy in Africa (or elsewhere)
- 2006.02.07: The United States seeks foreign nations' assistance Post-Katrina
- 2006.02.07: Net Infrastructure Requiring Tolls?
- 2006.02.06: Tracking stuff is just about to get easier
- 2006.02.02: Threatening Military Readiness
- 2006.02.01: A Primer on Pirates
- 2006.02.01: Rumsfeld on Openness
- 2006.02.01: U.S. Underestimated Hamas' Strength
- 2006.01.31: Searching for information... just got easier
- 2006.01.31: The real Rumsfeld?
- 2006.01.31: Blogging's Six Pillars
- 2006.01.31: More on the threats to military readiness
- 2006.01.31: CIA: new FBIS for DNI OSC
- 2006.01.31: Congressional Staffers messing w/ Wiki?
- 2006.01.31: Cutting the Military
- 2006.01.30: The White House and image management
- 2006.01.30: African oil is an American security challenge
- 2006.01.29: Using URL typos for political gain
- 2006.01.29: US Navy captures Somali 'Pirate'
- 2006.01.28: Pentagon "roadmap" calls for "boundaries"...
- 2006.01.27: Humor: Updating U.S. Military Oaths
- 2006.01.27: Picking ICT Targets
- 2006.01.27: Peacekeeping and Cultural Diplomacy - unofficial mil videos
- 2006.01.27: McDonald's, Google, and glocalization
- 2006.01.26: U.S. Rebuilding in Iraq Found to Fall Short
- 2006.01.26: Terrorist Surveillance Program against al Qaeda
- 2006.01.26: Veteran's Benefits
- 2006.01.26: Thin Green Line :: Rumsfeld v Army
- 2006.01.25: "Applications of principles to situations short of war"
- 2006.01.25: More on the Administration's Defense of NSA wiretaps
- 2006.01.25: "Cronyism and Kickbacks"
- 2006.01.24: Army working dogs
- 2006.01.24: G W Quote from 2005 Inaugural Address
- 2006.01.24: Democratizing of Intelligence
- 2006.01.24: ICRC and PMCs
- 2006.01.24: PMCs and CONUS
- 2006.01.24: Hamas, Cali Cartel, and Winning the Support
- 2006.01.24: Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems
- 2006.01.24: Laying foundations for wider ICT implementation
- 2006.01.24: More on US Military as Public & Cultural Diplomats
- 2006.01.23: Public Diplomacy Quote
- 2006.01.23: Chavez's public diplomacy: Playing to American Poor
- 2006.01.23: Update: The White House and DoD and Domestic Spying
- 2006.01.22: Off Topic: Race across Manhattan
- 2006.01.20: Your friendly internet police
- 2006.01.20: War News Radio
- 2006.01.20: More on expanding the US military's public diplomacy capabilities
- 2006.01.20: Germans at Djibouti along w/ US and UK forces
- 2006.01.20: Alexander Strategy Group and Eritrea
- 2006.01.19: Mother Jones Interview with Marc Lynch - Voices of the New Arab Public
- 2006.01.19: Islamic Republic News Agency (Iranian official news) reaches out
- 2006.01.19: CIA Torture Flights... UK Memo
- 2006.01.18: China's Africa expansion
- 2006.01.18: Consultants Advisory Group (CAG) as UN PMC?
- 2006.01.18: Making Our (Retired) Soldiers Pay
- 2006.01.18: UN Troops flee Ivory Coast Town
- 2006.01.17: Is TopCat really in "mobilization"?
- 2006.01.17: Public Diplomacy brought to you by the Department of Defense, not State
- 2006.01.17: Fourth Generation Category description
- 2006.01.17: Former generals promote anti-torture bill
- 2006.01.17: Rumsfeld Seeks Cut in Military
- 2006.01.16: Update: Blackwater Air goes lighter than Air
- 2006.01.16: USNA no longer guarded by Marines
- 2006.01.16: Bush Administration's ADD wastes the sacrifices of our soldiers and their civilians
- 2006.01.16: Update: Blackwater Lawsuit Details and Other Thoughts
- 2006.01.16: Update: PSC Snipers in Iraq
- 2006.01.16: PMC "Hostages" in Colombia
- 2006.01.16: Update: Blackwater, Alexander Group, and Abramoff
- 2006.01.16: The Lighter Force of Rumsfeld
- 2006.01.15: Even more on Webcams...
- 2006.01.15: More Webcams
- 2006.01.15: Controlling Webcams
- 2006.01.14: UPDATE Cell phone records for sale
- 2006.01.14: L. Paul Bremer joins the band wagon: We needed more troops
- 2006.01.14: China's R&D and Arms Industry
- 2006.01.13: DOD as our public diplomat in Pakistan
- 2006.01.13: Ukraine Seizes Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Control Center
- 2006.01.13: War on Pirates
- 2006.01.13: Maritime Terrorism Threat
- 2006.01.13: Djibouti Sues France
- 2006.01.13: "Foreign Friends" financing private company off Somali Waters?
- 2006.01.12: Sudan army attacks rebel stronghold
- 2006.01.12: Somalia clashes leave 15 dead
- 2006.01.12: Going Norwegian instead of Swedish
- 2006.01.12: Once again, heeeeeeeere's al-Jazeera
- 2006.01.11: Did Bush really suggest bombing al-Jazeera?
- 2006.01.11: Millions not a couple of dozen Americans "sucked into the vacuum"
- 2006.01.11: Were the "CIA prisons" closed last month?
- 2006.01.11: US military says Public Diplomacy is Good while the rest of USG says Huh?
- 2006.01.11: New Category Name: Somalia -> Africa
- 2006.01.10: How Important is Public Diplomacy to the US Government? (was "Bush Slams Arabic TV")
- 2006.01.09: The Aden Declaration
- 2006.01.09: Al-Qaeda Manhunt in Kenya
- 2006.01.09: Contract Iraq - Upcoming movie on private security forces in Iraq
- 2006.01.06: Revisiting and updating the Roosevelt Doctrine
- 2006.01.06: Remote Warfare... some comments
- 2006.01.06: Camera Grenade and Other Thoughts
- 2006.01.05: Bush slams Arabic TV
- 2006.01.05: Edinburgh Risk & Route IRISH / BIAP Road, and
- 2006.01.04: The Spivak Conspiracy
- 2006.01.04: Media Influence and Misinformation
- 2006.01.03: Leveraging the Internet, part I
- 2006.01.02: CT in the Horn
- 2006.01.02: Kathryn Cramer: Top Cat Marine Security Has an Executive Level
- 2006.01.02: Britain: imperial nostalgia
- 2006.01.02: Looking for regulating international private military companies? Maybe we should look at International Maritime Law
- 2005.12.31: NSA Program Leak, Sun Tzu, and George Bush
- 2005.12.31: MOOTW or War Itself is coming
- 2005.12.31: UK SAS-SBS poaching
- 2005.12.31: SAS-SBS joining US Forces in Africa
- 2005.12.30: General and SecDef rift -- civil-military relations dividing
- 2005.12.26: Japanese Maritime Self-Defense recruiting videos
- 2005.12.23: Holiday & Offline
- 2005.12.22: Chinese and the Horn of Africa
- 2005.12.21: FISA Judge Quits & other Public Diplomacy Commentary
- 2005.12.20: The Cheetah Cubs
- 2005.12.20: Chinese Public Diplomacy via UN Peacekeeping
- 2005.12.20: Rove Energy Corporation Limited
- 2005.12.15: No posts while travelling
- 2005.12.09: America's "quiet diplomacy" in Somalia
- 2005.12.09: Example: UN Peacekeepers and Private Military, equal unaccountability?
- 2005.12.08: Update: Has TopCat Marine Security Been Ordered to Cease & Desist? & Other Regional News
- 2005.12.07: Somalia & Uranium?
- 2005.12.06: More on TopCat associations
- 2005.12.06: "National Strategy for Victory" is propaganda without substance
- 2005.12.04: TopCat, Somalia, Ethiopia: Ogaden, Gedi, EPRDF/TPLF
- 2005.12.04: Boots on the ground?
- 2005.12.04: Public Diplomacy by Proxy
- 2005.12.04: CIA Flights: Rice & Public Diplomacy is like oil & water
- 2005.12.03: Update: Iraq FOIA
- 2005.12.03: Is war about to break out in the Horn?
- 2005.12.03: Updated: TopCat and Marathon Link & Oil Diplomacy
- 2005.12.02: Impressions matter
- 2005.12.02: Marathon, PETRONAS, and PexCo Oil and Somalia
- 2005.12.02: Potential Cost of Private Military Companies
- 2005.12.02: Puzzle Pieces: HAFZA...Somalia...TopCat....intent? Goal?
- 2005.12.01: Accountability of Non-State Force
- 2005.11.30: Somalia...TopCat...$50m+...???
- 2005.11.30: Intelligenct Munitions
- 2005.11.30: UPDATE 2 on The $50m contract to fight piracy, a primer on privatized force
- 2005.11.29: UPDATE on The $50m contract to fight piracy... the unknown paying the lesser known
- 2005.11.28: The $50m contract to fight piracy... the unknown paying the lesser known
- 2005.11.26: When having a secret meeting, keep it a secret
- 2005.11.23: Not a Civil War? Civil Terrorising?
- 2005.11.23: SOCOM Bonus: successful rentention
- 2005.11.22: Blair 'convinced Bush' not to launch strike at Al-Jazeera
- 2005.11.16: Credibility: a requirement for a Spokeman but not a country?
- 2005.11.16: Recruiting Goals and the Executive
- 2005.11.16: White phosphorus: who knew what and why? did they care?
- 2005.11.15: Are we safer?
- 2005.11.15: Unemployment among age 20-24 vets
- 2005.11.09: Update on the Cruise Ship Pirate Attack
- 2005.11.06: Consequences of privatization of security .:. in practice in Iraq
- 2005.11.06: 58 percent question his integrity
- 2005.11.06: The LRAD and the cruise ship
- 2005.11.04: Reporters not Reporting
- 2005.11.04: Linking AEI and Iraq
- 2005.11.02: Marines get OK for Special Forces
- 2005.11.01: Plamegate Synopsis
- 2005.10.28: My state is big
- 2005.10.26: Delivering the Good Word
- 2005.10.26: Reducing Logistic Vulnerability and Drag
- 2005.10.08: Terrorism, Interegation, & Security
- 2005.10.05: Bush's Priorities: is this really what we should be working on?
- 2005.10.04: Clash of Common Sense
- 2005.10.04: Blackwater Oath: a pledge to the sovereign or a play to look more American?
- 2005.09.17: Who's in Charge?
- 2005.09.11: Evacuee vs Refugee
- 2005.09.11: Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan
- 2005.09.10: Powell's "painful blot"
- 2005.09.07: FEMA and President Bush
- 2005.08.25: Echolocation Advances
- 2005.08.25: Quick Note: Linking Piracy and Terrorism
- 2005.08.25: Quick Note: Chinese Purchase Canadian Oil Co
- 2005.08.24: Quick Note: Private Robot Guard
- 2005.08.22: Rummy's Priorities?
- 2005.08.19: Civil-Military Dividing
- 2005.08.18: Federal or Islamic United States of Iraq?
- 2005.08.11: If Iraq is flypaper, what does that make us?
- 2005.08.08: Dual Use Skills
- 2005.08.08: Remote Controlled Cars and Warfare
- 2005.08.08: The Net and Terrorists
- 2005.08.07: CBT for Terrorists
- 2005.08.07: Chinese Peace Corps + Energy Exploitation
- 2005.08.04: Electronic Extortion
- 2005.08.02: Stealth Ships
- 2005.08.02: Energy Efficient Warriors
- 2005.08.01: Alternative Taxonomy for PMCs?
- 2005.08.01: PMC publicity getting more negative
- 2005.07.14: Rove leak is just part of larger scandal
- 2005.07.05: Humvee Alternatives
- 2005.07.04: (Not) Every Death is a Martyr
- 2005.06.29: Strategic Scapegoating?
- 2005.06.10: Peacekeeping Accountability and Private Military Companies
- 2005.06.09: USMC vs PMC
- 2005.06.07: Battling the Bureaucracy
- 2005.06.03: When outsourcing fails you
- 2005.05.31: Remote Sensing
- 2005.05.29: Criminal Funding of Terrorism Continues
- 2005.05.25: Ignoring history doesn't change it
- 2005.05.25: Make Law(fare) Not War(fare)
- 2005.05.21: Remote (far and near) monitoring advances
- 2005.05.21: Guides to Britain, Iraq (for WWII GIs but also for today)
- 2005.05.19: Foreign Affairs - Pitch Imperfect - Sanford J. Ungar
- 2005.05.19: Radioactive rockets 'for sale' in breakaway Soviet republic - Sunday Times - Times Online
- 2004.12.15: No more rear areas
- 2004.12.01: Robot Grunts
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