Archive for the 'army'

• A Light at the End of the Tunnell

October 23rd, 2012 by zen

Posted in Afghanistan, army, COIN, counterinsurgency, leadership, military, military professionalism, military training & education, Tactics, Taliban, war, warriors | 12 comments

• Turning Away From Strategy

August 23rd, 2012 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, Air Force, America, analytic, army, cognition, defense, education, Epistemology, Failed State, government, history, ideas, military, military reform, national security, navy, organizations, Patterns, politics, security, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, teaching, USMC, war | 34 comments

• Book Review: The Snake Eaters by Owen West

June 8th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, al qaida, America, arab world, army, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, Foreign Internal Defense, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, leadership, military, military history, military reform, national security, non-state actors, reading, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, tribes, USMC, war, warriors | 2 comments

• High Ground

May 21st, 2012 by zen

Posted in 2012, Afghanistan, America, army, biography, Character, cooperation, iraq, military, movies, navy, resilience, sports, stoic, symbolism, terrain, USMC, veterans, war, warriors | Comments Off on High Ground

• Boyd & Beyond 2012

May 19th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 2012, 4GW, 5GW, academia, Air Force, army, asymmetric, authors, blog-friends, Boyd 2012, cognition, horizontal thinking, Hybrid War, IC, ideas, innovation, intellectuals, john boyd, leadership, legitimacy, metacognition, military, military history, military reform, national security, networks, Perception, philosophy, psychology, reform, resilience, social science, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, teaching, theory, uncertainty, war, warriors | 2 comments