Archive for the 'non-state actors'

• Killebrew on The End of War

August 11th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, analytic, military, military history, military reform, national security, networks, non-state actors, politics, primary loyalties, security, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war | 9 comments

• Descent into Barbarism

August 10th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, britain, criminals, culture, democracy, dystopia, gangs, government, leadership, legitimacy, non-state actors, Perception, politics, revolution, security, social networks, society, state failure, Tactics, Uncategorized | 20 comments

• Guest Post: Politics Requires People (a Response to “War, the Individual, Strategy and the State”)

August 4th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, academia, analytic, classics, Clausewitzian, Collaboration, criminals, culture, democracy, Epistemology, feedback, framing, futurism, government, historians, historiography, history, ideas, intellectuals, JosephFouche, legitimacy, linguistics, metacognition, military, military history, non-state actors, Patterns, philosophy, politics, psychology, reader response, Seydlitz89, social science, society, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, superempowered individuals, synthesis, Tactics, terrorism, theory, war | 8 comments

• Bing West on COIN and Afghanistan Strategy

August 2nd, 2011 by zen

Posted in Afghanistan, America, COIN, counterinsurgency, foreign policy, insurgency, leadership, military, military history, non-state actors, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, Tactics, terrorism, war | Comments Off on Bing West on COIN and Afghanistan Strategy

• Why Johnny Jihad Can’t Read (AQ Mission Orders)

August 1st, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, America, analytic, authors, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamist, national security, non-state actors, social science, society, strategy, Tactics, terrorism, the atlantic | Comments Off on Why Johnny Jihad Can’t Read (AQ Mission Orders)