Archive for the 'counterinsurgency'

• Book Review: Narcos Over the Border by Robert J. Bunker (Ed.)

April 5th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, America, analytic, authors, black globalization, book, connectivity, conspiracy, counterinsurgency, criminals, cultural intelligence, dystopia, Failed State, gangs, government, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, john p. sullivan, Latin America, Mexico, military, national security, non-state actors, OSINT, politics, primary loyalties, robert j. bunker, security, social networks, social science, state failure, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, Viral, war | 9 comments

• Book Review: BRUTE by Robert Coram

March 28th, 2011 by zen

Posted in authors, biography, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, military, military history, war, warriors | 5 comments

• Corn’s Caliphates in Wonderland

March 26th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 4GW, 9/11, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analogy, analytic, anthropology, arab world, authors, COIN, cold war, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, diplomatic history, extremists, Failed State, geopolitics, government, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, mideast, national security, non-state actors, organizations, pakistan, Perception, politics, primary loyalties, public diplomacy, rambling, Religion, small wars journal, social networks, social science, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, synthesis, terrorism, Theology, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, turkey, virtual states, war | 12 comments

• Metz on Libya

March 22nd, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, arab world, COIN, counterinsurgency, dictator, DIME, diplomacy, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, insurgency, islamic world, islamist, mideast, non-state actors, primary loyalties, revolution, SSI, steven metz, strategy, war | 7 comments

• Guest Post: DARPA, STORyNet and the Fate of the War by J. Scott Shipman

March 2nd, 2011 by zen

Posted in Afghanistan, al qaida, analogy, analytic, cognition, cognitive goods, Collaboration, counterinsurgency, creativity, cultural intelligence, culture, emotion, Epistemology, extremists, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, metacognition, military intelligence, myth, non-state actors, organizations, OSINT, Perception, primary loyalties, priming, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, Religion, scenario, social science, synthesis, Tactics, Theology, theory, tribes, war, warriors | 11 comments