Archive for the 'counterintuitive'

• How to Lose a War: A Primer

July 28th, 2013 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, 21st century, Afghanistan, Air Force, al qaida, America, analytic, army, COIN, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, dystopia, Failed State, fisking, government, humor, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, military, military contractor, military history, military intelligence, military reform, military training & education, politics, rambling, satire, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, Taliban, terrorism, theory, veterans, war, warriors | 49 comments

• The Boston Bombers and Superempowerment

May 1st, 2013 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, 2013, 21st century, counterintuitive, counterterrorism, definitions, economics, extremists, freedom, glittering eye, government, ideas, islamist, law enforcement, national security, non-state actors, politics, risk, schuler, security, society, strategy, terrorism, theory | 24 comments

• US Foreign Policy, Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood

January 30th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 20th century, 21st century, africa, al qaida, America, analytic, arab world, barack obama, blowback, counterintuitive, cultural intelligence, david ronfeldt, deception, democracy, dictator, diplomacy, egypt, elections, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, hillary clinton, IC, Islam, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, morsi, national security, non-state actors, obama, Perception, politics, protest, Questions, R2P, radicalization, Religion, revolution, risk, state department, state failure, strategy, sunni, syria, terrorism | 8 comments

• On the HipBone and Sembl games: update

November 29th, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in analogy, analytic, Charles Cameron, cognition, counterintuitive, creativity, critical thinking, dialog, education, fiction, games, graphical thinking, horizontal thinking, IC, ideas, literature, logic, medici effect, music, personal, quant & qualit, recommended viewing, rethinking thinking, Sembl, Uncategorized, wicked problems | 3 comments

• The Sounds of Silence and Your Own Mind

November 27th, 2012 by zen

Posted in analytic, attention, brain, cognition, counterintuitive, creativity, emotion, ideas, innovation, insight, intellectuals, intelligence, J. Scott Shipman, lexington green, paradox, Perception, psychology, rambling, science, social science, society, synthesis, theory, Zen | 8 comments