Archive for the 'mideast'

• [Reposting] Talking the audible talk

October 26th, 2011 by Charles Cameron

Posted in Charles Cameron, counterintuitive, cultural intelligence, Doublequotes, harvard, insight, literature, mideast, poetry of war, psychology | Comments Off on [Reposting] Talking the audible talk

• Iranian Assassination – Narco-Cartel Plot Charged

October 12th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 4GW, 5GW, America, barack obama, bill richardson, conspiracy, criminals, extremists, FBI, fisking, foreign policy, gangs, geopolitics, government, illegal combatants, IO, iran, islamic world, islamist, justice, Mexico, mideast, national security, non-state actors, pasdaran, security, state department, state terrorism, terrorism, transnational criminal organization | 4 comments

• Brezhnev in the Hejaz?

August 26th, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, arab world, foreign policy, islamic world, mideast | 8 comments

• Book Review: The Profession by Steven Pressfield

July 25th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 2011, 21st century, 4GW, authors, book, creativity, dystopia, empire, fiction, fun, futurism, geopolitics, history, ideas, intellectuals, mideast, military, military contractor, myth, non-state actors, Patterns, philosophy, politics, reading, roman empire, scenario, shlok, society, state failure, strategy, Tactics, tribes, USMC, war, warriors, Writing | 7 comments

• Martin van Creveld on The Lebanon War

June 27th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Air Force, analytic, arab world, army, COIN, counterinsurgency, historians, history, ideas, Infinity Journal, intellectuals, islamic world, Israel, mideast, military, military history, politics, primary loyalties, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, war | 9 comments