Archive for March, 2010

• The US Army goes Crossfit and America’s Changing Social Mores

March 17th, 2010 by zen

Posted in America, army, culture, dilegge, education, exercise, fun, humor, military, military reform, personal, public school, rambling, society, warriors | 25 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

• 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