Archive for the 'analytic'

• Outrage Over News Corp: A Tale of Two Standards

July 18th, 2011 by zen

Posted in analytic, britain, corporations, criminals, government, guardian, media, national security, new york times, Oligarchy, Perception, periodicals, politics | 26 comments

• Hitting all the Right Notes

July 14th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, 5GW, analytic, COIN, counterintuitive, IC, illegal combatants, insurgency, IO, military, military reform, non-state actors, politics, primary loyalties, strategy, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war | Comments Off on Hitting all the Right Notes

• Carl Prine’s Rebuttal to “Be honest: Who actually read FM 3-24?”

July 13th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, Afghanistan, America, analytic, army, blogosphere, COIN, counterinsurgency, diplomatic history, framing, government, historians, historiography, history, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, islam.insurgency, leadership, military, military history, military reform, national security, organizations, Perception, politics, social science, society, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, theory, USMC, veterans, Vietnam, Vietnam War, war, warriors | 4 comments

• Possible Shifts in AfPak

July 12th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, Afghanistan, America, analytic, barack obama, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, DIME, diplomacy, dystopia, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, history, India, insurgency, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, military history, mob, pakistan, Patterns, politics, scenario, soviet union, state failure, terrorism, tribes, war | 13 comments

• A Culture of Punitive Raiding

July 9th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, A.E., Air Force, America, analytic, army, CIA, COIN, counterinsurgency, culture, defense, democracy, DIME, economic determinism, economics, federal budget, foreign policy, government, IC, ideas, innovation, military, military reform, national security, navy, organizations, Patterns, politics, strategy, Strategy and War, strategy swj, swj blog, Tactics, theory, USMC, war, warriors | 2 comments