Archive for the 'cultural intelligence'

• Guest Post: PRT and State Department Ignorance Fails Us All

March 21st, 2016 by zen

Posted in 21st century, Afghanistan, America, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, diplomacy, Failed State, feedback, foreign policy, government, guest post, Humanitarian, insurgency, intellectuals, military, national security, non-state actors, organizations, Patterns, public diplomacy, Questions, soft power, state department, Taliban, terrorism, tragedy, tribes, veterans, war | 6 comments

• Guest Post: Duncan Hunter and Human Terrain System by Turner

February 14th, 2016 by zen

Posted in 21st century, Afghanistan, anthropology, COIN, cultural intelligence, culture, defense, expertise, guest post, Human Terrain System, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, military, military contractor, military training & education, national security, organizations, politics, Questions, social science, state department, state failure | 9 comments

• We’re a legacy industry in a world of start-up competitors

August 26th, 2015 by Charles Cameron

Posted in 2015, 20th century, 21st century, Afghanistan, al qaida, Alawis, America, analytic, Arab Spring, arab world, asymmetric, blindspots, caliph, CENTCOM, Charles Cameron, computers, corruption, cultural intelligence, culture, cve, DARPA, daveed gartenstein-ross, diplomacy, diplomatic history, Doublequotes, drones, ecology, economics, ecosystem, education, egypt, elections, empire, extremists, Failed State, foreign language, foreign policy, Geography, geopolitics, global warming, globalization, government, Hamas, hezbollah, history, husain haqqani, India, indigenous, innovation, intervention, iran, iraq, IS, ISIS, Islam, islamic world, islamist, Israel, jordan, kurdistan, Lebanon, legitimacy, map, maps of war, maqdisi, mb / ikhwan, mideast, military, military contractor, mystery, national security, non-state actors, organizations, palestine, peace, recommended viewing, Religion, saudi arabia, sectarian, secular, sharia, shia, slavery, state failure, strategy, sufi, sunni, terrorism, tribes, tunisia, turkey, Uncategorized, Vietnam War, wahhab, water & water wars, web 2.0, westphalia, women, wwi, yazidi / yezidi | 2 comments

• Intellectuals and their Romance with Political Barbarism

July 4th, 2015 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, analytic, arab world, authoritarian, barbaric, caliph, Charles Cameron, Communism, comparative, cultural intelligence, culture, dictator, dystopia, egypt, europe, extremists, Failed State, Fascism, foreign policy, Germany, history, hitler, Ho Chi Minh, ideas, intellectuals, iraq, ISIS, Islam, islamic world, islamist, Liberalism, Mahdist, meme, mideast, Musings, narrative, nazis, neoconservatism, non-state actors, Patterns, Perception, politics, power, primary loyalties, propaganda, psychology, question, radicalization, revolution, society, soviet union, stalin, state terrorism, sunni, synthesis, Tactics, Taliban, theory, totalitarianism, Uncategorized | 21 comments

• Pete Turner on “Collecting Instability”

June 12th, 2015 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, Break it Down Show, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, DIME, expertise, Failed State, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, interdisciplinary, military, military intelligence, non-state actors, Perception, Podcast, politics, population, reform, social networks, social science, social services, society, soft power, Taliban | 1 comment