Archive for the 'population'

• Break it Down Show – Bill Mankins

May 16th, 2017 by zen

Posted in Break it Down Show, cultural intelligence, culture, military professionalism, military reform, military training & education, population, war, warriors | Comments Off on Break it Down Show – Bill Mankins

• Turchin on Human Sacrifice and Society

April 12th, 2016 by zen

Posted in analytic, ancient history, anthropology, Archaeology, blog-friends, ceremonial, complex systems, complexity, cooperation, counterpoint, culture, debate, egalitarianism, history, ideas, intellectuals, ISIS, magic, Musings, myth, politics, population, power, prayer, Prehistoric, psychology, Religion, sacrament, sacred, sacrifice, social science, society, sociobiology, symbolism, T Greer, Theology, theory, tribes, war | 1 comment

• Human Sacrifice and State-Building

April 5th, 2016 by zen

Posted in 21st century, ancient history, anthropology, Archaeology, Australia, cultural intelligence, culture, dystopia, extremists, hierarchy, ideas, intellectuals, IS, ISIS, islamist, Mahdist, management of barbarism / savagery, politics, population, power, primary loyalties, punishment, sacred, sacrifice, sharia, social science, society, state terrorism, symbolism, terrorism, theory, values | 4 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

• Water and people

May 9th, 2013 by Charles Cameron

Posted in Charles Cameron, Doublequotes, ecology, Geography, geopolitics, population, scriptures, Uncategorized, water & water wars | Comments Off on Water and people