Archive for the 'intellectuals'

• Book Review: The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire by Luttwak

February 14th, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, ancient history, authors, book, DIME, history, ideas, intellectuals, military, reading, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, war | 2 comments

• Debating the Mexican Cartel Wars at SWJ Blog

February 14th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, analytic, COIN, counterinsurgency, criminals, cultural intelligence, culture, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, military, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, robert j. bunker, small wars journal, social science, state failure, swj blog, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, war | Comments Off on Debating the Mexican Cartel Wars at SWJ Blog

• On the Mythic and the Historic

February 3rd, 2011 by zen

Posted in 300, academia, ancient history, authors, book, classics, culture, democracy, dystopia, fiction, frank miller, historians, historiography, history, ideas, intellectuals, interact, meme, movies, myth, Oligarchy, Perception, philosophy, propaganda, reading, Republic, sean meade, social science, spartans | 5 comments

• A Recommended Blog for Metacognition

January 30th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, analytic, attention, blogging, blogosphere, Blogroll, book, Clausewitzian, cognition, counterintuitive, Epistemology, horizontal thinking, ideas, insight, intellectuals, intelligence, john boyd, kent's imperative, logic, metacognition, Perception, philosophy, physics, psychology, social science, theory | 3 comments

• Off-Base

January 27th, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, America, analytic, blogosphere, britain, criminals, extremists, fisking, history, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, non-state actors, Perception, politics, social science, Tactics, terrorism, theory | 10 comments