Archive for the 'state building'

• The Post-COIN Era is Here

January 25th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, army, barack obama, COIN, counterinsurgency, defense, democratic party, DIME, elections, foreign policy, gian gentile, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, islamic world, ISW, john nagl, kilcullen, military, military reform, national debt, national security, obama, politics, security, small wars journal, soft power, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, war, warriors | 48 comments

• Stocking Stuffers……

December 12th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 3 gen gangs, 4GW, authors, barnett, book, brave new war, capitalism, cognition, Cyberwar, defense, foreign policy, futurism, gangs, gap, geopolitics, global guerillas, globalization, government, ideas, intellectuals, intelligence, metacognition, military, military reform, national security, non-state actors, PNM, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, recommended reading, robb, sociobiology, soft power, state building, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, Threats in the Age of Obama, war, warriors | 6 comments

• Metz on the Afghan Surge

December 4th, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, COIN, counterinsurgency, Failed State, foreign policy, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, military, national security, security, SSI, state building, state failure, steven metz, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, tribes, war | 3 comments

• OTB Radio

November 4th, 2009 by zen

Posted in Afghanistan, COIN, counterinsurgency, foreign policy, history, insurgency, islamic world, islamist, media, non-state actors, Outside the beltway, Podcast, schuler, state building, state failure, Strategy and War, war, web 2.0 | 4 comments

• Strategy, Dilemmas and Choices

November 2nd, 2009 by zen

Posted in 4GW, America, analytic, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, futurism, geopolitics, government, ideas, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, metacognition, military, national security, non-state actors, pakistan, politics, risk, state building, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, theory | 16 comments