Archive for the 'islam.insurgency'

• WAR

May 24th, 2010 by zen

Posted in Afghanistan, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, extremists, Failed State, gap, Geography, insurgency, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, military history, non-state actors, pakistan, Perception, reading, tribes, vanity fair, war | 6 comments

• Expanding the Antilibrary

May 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 2010, academia, authors, book, cognition, COIN, cold war, complex systems, complexity, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, creativity, economics, education, empire, Evolution, historians, history, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, legitimacy, military, military history, public school, readers, reading, reform, scenario, social science, teaching, terrorism, theory, war | 10 comments

• Kilcullen on COIN “Persistent-Presence” vs. “Repetitive Raiding”

May 7th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, 9/11, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, anthropology, authors, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, DIME, Failed State, foreign policy, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, kilcullen, military, military reform, national security, non-state actors, primary loyalties, psychology, social science, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, tribes, war, warriors | 10 comments

• More Mackinlay – On Why the USG Doesn’t “Get” AQ as a “Global Insurgency”

April 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, army, book, britain, COIN, connectivity, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, defense, DIME, Epistemology, extremists, foreign policy, government, hierarchy, history, IC, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, john nagl, kilcullen, military, military reform, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, security, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, tribes, virtual states, war, warriors, web 2.0 | 9 comments

• Armstrong on Wikileaks

April 12th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, analytic, attention, bias, blogosphere, conspiracy, Cyberwar, disinformation, framing, globalization, ideas, innovation, insurgency, intellectuals, international law, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, mountainrunner, myth, non-state actors, open-source, Perception, politics, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, radical transparency, social networks, soft power, theory, war, web 2.0, youtube | 3 comments