Archive for the 'state building'
January 25th, 2010 by zen
Learning to Eat Soup with a Spoon...
Read morePosted 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
December 12th, 2009 by zen
In a burst of raw self-interest – and also...
Read morePosted 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
December 4th, 2009 by zen
Nothing like dueling Steves (see previous post). ...
Read morePosted 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
November 4th, 2009 by zen
I made an appearance, albeit an erratic one, on...
Read morePosted 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
November 2nd, 2009 by zen
Futurist Jamais Cascio on strategic forecasting: ...
Read morePosted 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
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