Archive for the 'state building'

• William Lind on the Taliban’s Operational Art

June 29th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 4GW, Afghanistan, analytic, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, Failed State, Foreign Internal Defense, foreign policy, insurgency, intellectuals, ISAF, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, Patterns, security, state building, state failure, strategy, Tactics, Taliban, theory, tribes, war | 13 comments

• The Russians are Not Coming….Nor are they Going Away

June 25th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, analytic, defense, deterrence, diplomacy, foreign policy, geopolitics, globalization, government, ideas, leadership, military, military reform, national security, nuclear, obama, Perception, politics, putin, R2P, reform, rule-sets, russia, security, state building, state failure, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, uncertainty, vladimir putin, war | Comments Off on The Russians are Not Coming….Nor are they Going Away

• Book Review: The Snake Eaters by Owen West

June 8th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, al qaida, America, arab world, army, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, Foreign Internal Defense, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, leadership, military, military history, military reform, national security, non-state actors, reading, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, tribes, USMC, war, warriors | 2 comments

• All the President’s NSCs

May 28th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, America, analytic, blog-friends, blogosphere, defense, foreign policy, government, history, IC, ideas, intellectuals, military, national security, nixon, organizations, politics, state building, theory | 1 comment

• When Does Conflict Become “War”?

May 22nd, 2012 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, ancient history, anthropology, classics, Clausewitzian, cognition, complex systems, culture, economics, Epistemology, Evolution, framing, genocide, geopolitics, government, history, ideas, literature, logic, military, military history, Musings, non-state actors, Oligarchy, Patterns, peace, Perception, philosophy, primary loyalties, Questions, risk, security, social science, society, sociobiology, state building, strategy, Strategy and War, synthesis, Tactics, theory, tribes, Uncategorized, uncertainty, war, warriors | 10 comments