July 24th, 2012 by zen
The latest in the series of COIN interviews by...
Read morePosted in COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, small wars journal, Strategy and War, swj blog, Tactics, theory, war, warriors | Comments Off on SWJ: Manea interviews Fernando Lujan
July 19th, 2012 by zen
Blogfriend, Dr. Venkat Rao had an intriguing post...
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July 12th, 2012 by zen
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a foreign...
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July 5th, 2012 by zen
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald...
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July 3rd, 2012 by zen
I first heard Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper...
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