Archive for the 'state failure'

• COIN may be Dead but 4GW has a New Lease on Life

December 12th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, analytic, barnett, black globalization, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, dystopia, Failed State, foreign policy, geopolitics, gian gentile, government, ideas, insurgency, international law, john robb, military, military reform, national debt, national security, non-state actors, politics, R2P, reform, risk, security, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war, warriors | 29 comments

• Do Oligarchies Create Insurgencies?

November 29th, 2011 by zen

Posted in analytic, Arab Spring, COIN, counterinsurgency, democracy, government, history, ideas, insurgency, military, military history, military reform, national security, non-state actors, Oligarchy, politics, primary loyalties, reform, revolution, scenario, social science, state building, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, Uncategorized, war | 28 comments

• Beware of Greeks Spurning Gifts…..

November 2nd, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, capitalism, connectivity, diplomacy, dystopia, economic determinism, economics, europe, Evolution, Failed State, geopolitics, globalization, government, Oligarchy, organizations, reform, state failure | 15 comments

• A Multi-Disciplinary Approach?: Coerr’s The Eagle and the Bear Outline

October 20th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, America, analytic, COIN, cold war, Communism, consilience, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, DIME, diplomatic history, empire, extremists, feedback, foreign policy, Geography, geopolitics, government, history, IC, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, international law, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, military history, national security, network theory, networks, non-state actors, pakistan, politics, primary loyalties, reader response, russia, security, social science, soviet union, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, synthesis, Tactics, terrain, terrorism, theory, totalitarianism, transnational criminal organization, tribes, USMC, war, warriors | 19 comments

• “What You Need to Know, Not What You Want to Hear”

September 16th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, analytic, counterinsurgency, criminals, dystopia, Failed State, foreign policy, insurgency, intellectuals, Latin America, Mexico, military, national security, networks, non-state actors, primary loyalties, robert j. bunker, security, small wars journal, social science, state failure, swj blog, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, war | 9 comments