Archive for the 'state failure'

• Octavian Manea interviews T.X. Hammes

September 7th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, America, army, historians, history, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, military, military history, military reform, national security, non-state actors, small wars journal, state failure, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog | Comments Off on Octavian Manea interviews T.X. Hammes

• Octavian Manea Interviews General David Petraeus

September 2nd, 2013 by zen

Posted in Afghanistan, COIN, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, insurgency, intellectuals, Interview, iraq, mideast, military, military history, military training & education, national security, petraeus, small wars journal, state building, state failure, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, Tactics, terrorism, theory, tribes, veterans, war, warriors | 4 comments

• Bomb Syria?

August 29th, 2013 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, al qaida, America, analytic, barack obama, extremists, fog of war, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, logic, military, national security, non-state actors, obama, politics, R2P, security, state department, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, syria, terrorism, united nations, war, warriors | 7 comments

• For the Fourth of July: The Once and Future Republic?

July 4th, 2013 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, America, analytic, computers, Creepy-state, Cyberwar, democracy, dystopia, Failed State, futurism, government, IC, internet, legal, legitimacy, national security, politics, Republic, security, society, state failure, totalitarianism | 25 comments

• Moral Degeneration in the Crucible of War

June 12th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, africa, analytic, culture, Evolution, extremists, Failed State, gangs, government, history, hitler, Holocaust, ideas, insurgency, john boyd, Mexico, military, Militia, Morality, narcoterror, nazis, non-state actors, Perception, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, radicalization, society, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, torture, tragedy, tribes, uganda, war, warriors | 19 comments