Archive for the 'politics'

• Echevarria and the Irrational in Strategy

September 17th, 2013 by zen

Posted in logic, military, national security, philosophy, politics, SSI, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, theory | 21 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

• Single Quote: Robert B. Laughlin

August 26th, 2013 by Lynn C. Rees

Posted in emergence, physics, politics, reductionism, science, science fiction | 8 comments

• Is Grand Strategy Democratic?

August 9th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, America, analytic, culture, democracy, DIME, dystopia, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, ideas, intellectuals, leadership, legitimacy, military, national security, networks, Oligarchy, open-source, organizations, OSINT, Perception, philosophy, politics, small wars journal, strategy, swj blog, theory, think tanks | 21 comments

• How to Lose a War: A Primer

July 28th, 2013 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, 21st century, Afghanistan, Air Force, al qaida, America, analytic, army, COIN, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, dystopia, Failed State, fisking, government, humor, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, military, military contractor, military history, military intelligence, military reform, military training & education, politics, rambling, satire, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, Taliban, terrorism, theory, veterans, war, warriors | 49 comments