Archive for the 'national security'

• New Book: America 3.0 is Now Launched!

May 21st, 2013 by zen

Posted in 2013, 21st century, America, analytic, anglosphere, anthropology, authors, barone, blog-friends, blogosphere, book, britain, business, capitalism, change, chicago boyz, cultural intelligence, culture, defense, democracy, economics, education, Evolution, fiscal conservatism, foreign policy, futurism, globalization, government, historiography, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, intellectuals, justice, leadership, legitimacy, lexington green, military, military reform, national debt, national security, politics, reading, reform, Republic, resilience, rule-sets, science, security, social science, social services, society, strategy, synthesis, theory, Writing | 9 comments

• Are Insurgencies “Antifragile”?

May 16th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, Afghanistan, africa, analytic, antifragile, COIN, complex systems, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, dystopia, extremists, Failed State, Foreign Internal Defense, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, john robb, law enforcement, Mexico, military, national security, non-state actors, open-source, organizations, society, state failure, Strategy and War, synthesis, terrorism, theory, war | 19 comments

• A Brief Note on the Benghazi Hearings

May 9th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, barack obama, foreign policy, government, islamic world, islamist, Libya, mideast, military, mob, myth, national security, obama, politics, Republic, state department, terrorism | 1 comment

• The Boston Bombers and Superempowerment

May 1st, 2013 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, 2013, 21st century, counterintuitive, counterterrorism, definitions, economics, extremists, freedom, glittering eye, government, ideas, islamist, law enforcement, national security, non-state actors, politics, risk, schuler, security, society, strategy, terrorism, theory | 24 comments

• Syria is Not Rwanda

April 29th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, Arab Spring, arab world, Failed State, fisking, foreign policy, genocide, geopolitics, ideas, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, national security, non-state actors, obama, R2P, revolution, scenario, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, sunni, syria, tribes, uncertainty, war | 6 comments