Archive for the 'primary loyalties'

• Reflecting on Neo-COIN and the Global Insurgency, Part II.

March 11th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, al qaida, America, analytic, arab world, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, extremists, foreign policy, government, history, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, john nagl, john robb, kilcullen, Kuomintang, Mao ZeDong, mideast, military, military reform, national security, non-state actors, politics, primary loyalties, Religion, robb, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism | 9 comments

• Cameron on Conflict of Commands – A Guest Post Series

March 10th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 5GW, academia, analytic, army, Charles Cameron, cognition, cultural intelligence, culture, Epistemology, extremists, framing, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, insight, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, legitimacy, logic, meme, metacognition, military, myth, national security, non-state actors, Perception, philosophy, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, Religion, social science, society, synthesis, terrorism, Theology, theory | 8 comments

• The al-Masri Dialogue

February 9th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, analytic, arab world, bin laden, blogosphere, Charles Cameron, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, DIME, disinformation, extremists, government, IC, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, islamic world, islamist, mideast, national security, non-state actors, OSINT, Perception, politics, primary loyalties, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, Religion, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, synthesis, terrorism, Theology, theory, tribes, war | 4 comments

• Sullivan and Elkus on Narco-Insurgency

February 3rd, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, A.E., America, army, COIN, counterinsurgency, criminals, Failed State, gangs, insurgency, intellectuals, Latin America, Mexico, military, national security, non-state actors, organizations, primary loyalties, security, transnational criminal organization | Comments Off on Sullivan and Elkus on Narco-Insurgency

• Battleground Yemen

January 27th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 4GW, al qaida, arab world, COIN, coming anarchy, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, Geography, history, insurgency, islamic world, islamist, map, mideast, non-state actors, primary loyalties, shia, state failure, terrorism, tribes, war, warriors | Comments Off on Battleground Yemen