Quote Originally Posted by Mark O'Neill View Post
Steve,

Brave stuff,

I would offer a review except that it is 2230 on a Friday night here and my brain is fried after wrestling with a piece of my monograph that is not appearing on the page as my brain wants it too. Alas, I am always a far better writer in my head when I am thinking my thoughts rather than trying to write them down

I wonder if the world is ready for poetry rather than prose in my COIN strategy monograph? I suspect not .. especially since my creative poetry ability is more like some of those USMC limericks recently posted on another forum..
My life's objective is to distill ideas to the most perfect and sparse, zen-like prose possible. I've told my boss that one of these days I'm going to publish the first haiku Strategic Studies Institute monograph.