Archive for the 'intellectuals'

• Pondering Transition Ops with Quesopaper

April 16th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, Afghanistan, America, analytic, army, authors, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, defense, DIME, feedback, Foreign Internal Defense, foreign policy, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, military, military reform, national security, organizations, public diplomacy, security, social science, society, state building, state department, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, Taliban, theory, tribes, USMC, war, warriors | 6 comments

• New Book: THE SNAKE EATERS by Owen West

April 13th, 2012 by zen

Posted in authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, Foreign Internal Defense, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, islam.insurgency, islamic world, leadership, military, military history, military intelligence, military reform, national security, Transition Ops, Uncategorized, war, warriors | 1 comment

• More on Strategy

March 30th, 2012 by zen

Posted in analytic, blogosphere, DIME, diplomacy, disinformation, foreign policy, government, ideas, intellectuals, IO, military, mountainrunner, national security, organizations, Perception, politics, propaganda, public diplomacy, society, state building, state department, strategy, Strategy and War, Uncategorized, war | Comments Off on More on Strategy

• Strategy and Perception, Part II.

March 26th, 2012 by zen

Posted in Afghanistan, America, analytic, army, blogosphere, COIN, counterinsurgency, diplomacy, foreign policy, government, history, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, leadership, military, national security, Perception, politics, psychology, series, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, theory, Uncategorized, uncertainty, Vietnam War, war, warriors | 8 comments

• A Cure for Dystopianism

March 25th, 2012 by zen

Posted in dystopia, economic determinism, economics, framing, futurism, ideas, intellectuals, social science, society, tech, TED, web 2.0 | 1 comment