Archive for the '4GW'

• Octavian Manea interviews MIT’s Roger D. Peterson

April 19th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 4GW, academia, America, analytic, classics, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, leadership, military, military history, military training & education, Musings, non-state actors, politics, psychology, security, small wars journal, social science, society, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, tribes, uncertainty, war, warriors | 8 comments

• The Controversial CTC Report

January 25th, 2013 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, 5GW, academia, al qaida, America, analytic, army, bias, conservativism, conspiracy, counterpoint, counterterrorism, criminals, critical thinking, cultural intelligence, defense, democracy, Epistemology, extremists, fisking, gangs, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, law enforcement, Liberalism, liberty, military, narcoterror, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, OSINT, Perception, politics, protest, radicalization, reading, risk, scenario, security, social networks, social science, society, terrorism, theory, think tanks, threat, transnational criminal organization | 15 comments

• “The Galula Doctrine”

January 23rd, 2013 by zen

Posted in 4GW, academia, army, china, COIN, counterinsurgency, Failed State, Hybrid War, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, Mao ZeDong, military, military history, model, politics, psychology, revolution, security, small wars journal, social science, state failure, theory, war | 3 comments

• New Book: The Violent Image by Neville Bolt

December 14th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, Adaptability, analytic, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, history, ideas, imaginal, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, military, military history, myth, national security, network theory, networks, non-state actors, organizations, Patterns, politics, reading, social media, social networks, social science, society, soft power, strategy, symbolism, Tactics, tech, terrorism, theory, visualization, war, warriors, web 2.0 | Comments Off on New Book: The Violent Image by Neville Bolt

• Strategy, Power and Diffusion

November 19th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 4GW, Afghanistan, America, analytic, asymmetric, china, complex systems, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, DIME, economics, history, ideas, insurgency, logic, military, military history, national security, non-state actors, physics, politics, russia, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, Taliban, theory, van creveld, war, warriors, william lind, wwii | 22 comments