Archive for the 'fisking'

• Syria is Not Rwanda

April 29th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, Arab Spring, arab world, Failed State, fisking, foreign policy, genocide, geopolitics, ideas, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, national security, non-state actors, obama, R2P, revolution, scenario, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, sunni, syria, tribes, uncertainty, war | 6 comments

• The Controversial CTC Report

January 25th, 2013 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, 5GW, academia, al qaida, America, analytic, army, bias, conservativism, conspiracy, counterpoint, counterterrorism, criminals, critical thinking, cultural intelligence, defense, democracy, Epistemology, extremists, fisking, gangs, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, law enforcement, Liberalism, liberty, military, narcoterror, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, OSINT, Perception, politics, protest, radicalization, reading, risk, scenario, security, social networks, social science, society, terrorism, theory, think tanks, threat, transnational criminal organization | 15 comments

• The Hobbit: Narrative Validation or Vandalism?

December 30th, 2012 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, art, classics, fisking, ideas, j.r.r. tolkien, literature, movies, Musings, myth | 7 comments

• Point and Counterpoint in Defining Warfare II.

December 10th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, blogosphere, classics, Clausewitzian, complexity, contemplative, counterpoint, debate, defense, definitions, Epistemology, feedback, fisking, globalization, ideas, intellectuals, international law, military, military history, philosophy, small wars journal, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, theory, war | 8 comments

• On Eric Hobsbawm

October 3rd, 2012 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, blog-friends, britain, cold war, Communism, dystopia, fisking, genocide, geopolitics, historians, historiography, history, intellectuals, politics, revolution, soviet union, stalin, state terrorism, totalitarianism | 3 comments