Archive for the 'state failure'

• POINT-COUNTERPOINT on Mexico

March 31st, 2009 by zen

Posted in 3 gen gangs, 4GW, America, analytic, blogosphere, Failed State, gangs, insurgency, intellectuals, Mexico, national security, network theory, networks, security, state building, state failure, terrorism, threatswatch | 8 comments

• A Mexican Standoff with Reality

March 29th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, America, analytic, barack obama, bill richardson, COIN, counterinsurgency, criminals, Failed State, futurism, gangs, global guerillas, insurgency, intelligence, Mexico, military, national security, non-state actors, politics, public diplomacy, scenario, security, state failure, strategy, terrorism, transnational criminal organization, uncertainty | 37 comments

• The U.S. is Not Going to Disengage from the Mideast

December 16th, 2008 by zen

Posted in foreign policy, geopolitics, glittering eye, globalization, intellectuals, iran, iraq, islamic world, islamist, national security, non-state actors, Outside the beltway, schuler, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, terrorism | 5 comments

• “In the twenty-first century, wars are not won when the enemy army is defeated on the battlefield”

June 21st, 2008 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, barnett, COIN, counterinsurgency, defense, john nagl, legitimacy, military reform, national security, security, society, soft power, state building, state failure, strategy, swj blog, system administration, theory, van creveld | 20 comments

• Beyond COIN: A Potential Answer to “Granular” 4GW Scenarios ?

June 8th, 2008 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, chet richards, COIN, counterinsurgency, global guerillas, ideas, insurgency, legitimacy, military, national security, networks, non-state actors, primary loyalties, state failure, strategy, terrorism, theory, war | 5 comments