Archive for the 'arab world'

• Metz on Unruly Clients

March 31st, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, arab world, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, defense, diplomacy, diplomatic history, extremists, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, mideast, national security, non-state actors, pakistan, politics, public diplomacy, security, steven metz, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, tribes, war | 8 comments

• The Need for Old Hands: Mackinlay on Old COIN

March 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, academia, Afghanistan, africa, America, analytic, anglo-saxons, anthropology, arab world, army, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, DIME, diplomacy, education, empire, foreign language, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, historians, IC, ideas, India, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, linguistics, mideast, military, military reform, national security, politics, public diplomacy, reading, Religion, social science, society, soft power, state department, strategy, Strategy and War, theory, tribes, war, warriors | 15 comments

• Cameron on Conflicts of Commands, Part III. – A Guest Post Series

March 16th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, al qaida, America, analogy, analytic, arab world, army, christianity, cultural intelligence, culture, extremists, framing, government, ideas, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, mideast, military, myth, national security, navy, non-state actors, Perception, philosophy, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, Religion, society, state department, state failure, Strategy and War, synthesis, terrorism, Theology, theory | 2 comments

• Review: Senator’s Son by Larson

March 15th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 4GW, al qaida, America, arab world, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, DIME, fiction, foreign policy, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, leadership, mideast, military, military history, military reform, non-state actors, primary loyalties, psychology, reading, society, state building, Strategy and War, terrorism, tribes, war, warriors, Writing | 5 comments

• Cameron on Conflicts of Commands, Part II. – A Guest Post Series

March 12th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, 5GW, academia, America, analogy, analytic, anthropology, arab world, army, Charles Cameron, christianity, cognition, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, cultural intelligence, culture, Epistemology, extremists, genocide, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, legitimacy, logic, media, meme, metacognition, mideast, military, military intelligence, myth, national security, non-state actors, Perception, philosophy, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, Religion, rule-sets, social networks, social science, society, symmetry, synthesis, terrorism, Theology, theory, Viral | 10 comments