Archive for November, 2009

• Still too Busy to Blog Properly….But Hey, Look What I’m Reading!

November 24th, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, authors, biography, book, capitalism, culture, economics, globalization, historians, history, horizontal thinking, howard bloom, ideas, intellectuals, islamic world, nixon, politics, primary loyalties, Religion, rick perlstein, science, shia, social science, society, synthesis, Theology, vali nasr | 5 comments

• Guest Post: RAND Islam and CIA Islam too…

November 22nd, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, al qaida, America, analytic, arab world, Charles Cameron, cultural intelligence, extremists, ideas, intellectuals, IO, islamic world, islamist, national security, non-state actors, politics, primary loyalties, propaganda, psychology, Religion, social science, terrorism, Theology, theory, totalitarianism | 10 comments

• Guest Post: On al-Awlaki: Constants on the Path of Jihad

November 21st, 2009 by zen

Posted in analytic, arab world, Charles Cameron, cultural intelligence, extremists, ideas, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, national security, non-state actors, primary loyalties, Religion, series, social science, terrorism, Theology, theory | 13 comments

• The End of Defense and the National Interest

November 20th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 2009, 4GW, boyd 2007, chet richards, dni, ideas, intellectuals, john boyd, military, military history, military reform, national security, reform, security, strategy, theory, war | 31 comments

• Confucianism Revisited

November 18th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 21st century, classics, framing, ideas, intellectuals, military reform, philosophy, strategy, theory, war | Comments Off on Confucianism Revisited