April 7th, 2013 by zen
North Korea’s shopworn game of bluster,...
Read morePosted in analytic, china, diplomacy, Failed State, foreign policy, geopolitics, military, north korea, nuclear, Patterns, peace, propaganda, strategy, Strategy and War, threat, war | 4 comments
January 30th, 2013 by zen
The Obama administration, though they would not...
Read morePosted in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 20th century, 21st century, africa, al qaida, America, analytic, arab world, barack obama, blowback, counterintuitive, cultural intelligence, david ronfeldt, deception, democracy, dictator, diplomacy, egypt, elections, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, hillary clinton, IC, Islam, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, morsi, national security, non-state actors, obama, Perception, politics, protest, Questions, R2P, radicalization, Religion, revolution, risk, state department, state failure, strategy, sunni, syria, terrorism | 8 comments
November 22nd, 2012 by Charles Cameron
Posted in America, Charles Cameron, creativity, diplomacy, egypt, Hamas, Israel, morsi, obama, rethinking thinking, symmetry, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Gaza negotiations: sincerity and symmetry
November 11th, 2012 by zen
My co-blogger Charles Cameron is fond of his...
Read morePosted in 20th century, 21st century, analytic, change, CIA, defense, democratic party, DIME, diplomacy, diplomatic history, Doublequotes, elections, foreign policy, government, IC, intelligence, Libya, military, national security, nixon, Patterns, politics, state department, Uncategorized | 25 comments
November 3rd, 2012 by J.ScottShipman
Posted in 20th century, anglosphere, authors, Character, conservativism, cooperation, diplomacy, diplomatic history, egypt, extremists, Failed State, history, J. Scott Shipman, military, nazis, pacific empire, reading, recommended reading, russia, stalin, stalingrad, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, wwii | 2 comments