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Abbreviated Edition "The PD community really is a welcoming and supportive bunch." --Academic James Pamment; image from “epiphenomenal” --How some academics define public Diplomacy QUOTATIONS Quotations on Diplomacy and the Foreign...

As I read this essay by Darren Tromblay, I could not avoid the conclusion that ideas, tools, and concepts from various different ‘strategies’ were kluged together into this version of “hybrid warfare”.  He readily admits that this is not new but somehow...

The Party in San Nicholas: The Pursuit of Policy Contrary to Public Interest I decided not to be a party-pooper and go to the RDA’s opening bash. FYI, RDA means Refinery Di Aruba. The party with 8 bands, including the Queen of Bacchanal, Destra, at...

Dueling Operatives:  Casting Shadows and Light In the time Bourne’s been off the grid, he’s changed a great deal.  Greengrass says: “We find Bourne on the Greek/Macedonian border, and he’s conflicted, restless, and we don’t know why.  So, what’s happened...

In the last decade it has become more and more obvious that we have in America today what the journalists Dana Priest and William Arkin have called two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with, operated more or less in the open: the other...