Archive for the 'counterinsurgency'
July 28th, 2013 by zen
Posted in #FAIL, 21st century, Afghanistan, Air Force, al qaida, America, analytic, army, COIN, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, dystopia, Failed State, fisking, government, humor, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, military, military contractor, military history, military intelligence, military reform, military training & education, politics, rambling, satire, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, Taliban, terrorism, theory, veterans, war, warriors | 49 comments
July 14th, 2013 by zen
Posted in 21st century, analytic, army, COIN, Communism, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, cultural intelligence, defense, Foreign Internal Defense, foreign policy, geopolitics, Hybrid War, ideas, illegal combatants, India, insurgency, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, military, military professionalism, military reform, non-state actors, organizations, pakistan, security, state terrorism, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, war, warriors | 18 comments
May 28th, 2013 by zen
4GW theory has always attracted overenthusiasts...
Read morePosted in 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, analytic, brave new war, chet richards, Clausewitzian, COIN, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, criminals, dni, dystopia, fabius maximus, Failed State, geopolitics, government, hammes, history, Hybrid War, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, john boyd, john robb, legitimacy, military, military history, narcoterror, national security, non-state actors, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, society, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, tribes, war | 28 comments
May 16th, 2013 by zen
I have been reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s...
Read morePosted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, Afghanistan, africa, analytic, antifragile, COIN, complex systems, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, dystopia, extremists, Failed State, Foreign Internal Defense, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, john robb, law enforcement, Mexico, military, national security, non-state actors, open-source, organizations, society, state failure, Strategy and War, synthesis, terrorism, theory, war | 19 comments
April 26th, 2013 by Lynn C. Rees
Posted in complex systems, counterinsurgency, deterrence, diplomacy, guardian, Human Rights, illusion, insurgency, law enforcement, long tail, Lynn C. Rees, metaphor, non-state actors, nuance / subtlety, public diplomacy, stochastic, superempowered individuals, system administration, wicked problems | 3 comments
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