Archive for the 'theory'

• More Mackinlay – On Why the USG Doesn’t “Get” AQ as a “Global Insurgency”

April 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, army, book, britain, COIN, connectivity, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, defense, DIME, Epistemology, extremists, foreign policy, government, hierarchy, history, IC, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, john nagl, kilcullen, military, military reform, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, security, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, tribes, virtual states, war, warriors, web 2.0 | 9 comments

• Metaphors and Analogies: A Two-Edged Sword

April 15th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, America, analogy, analytic, attention, brain, cognition, complexity, creativity, disinformation, Epistemology, framing, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, intellectuals, IO, meme, metacognition, myth, national security, Perception, politics, priming, propaganda, psychology, social science, society, synthesis, teaching, theory | 13 comments

• Google as a Dishonest Broker?

April 13th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, analytic, computers, culture, democracy, disinformation, framing, free speech, freedom, government, innovation, IO, legitimacy, liberty, media, national security, non-state actors, obama, organizations, politics, radical transparency, search engine, society, soft power, tech, theory, web 2.0 | 7 comments

• Armstrong on Wikileaks

April 12th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, analytic, attention, bias, blogosphere, conspiracy, Cyberwar, disinformation, framing, globalization, ideas, innovation, insurgency, intellectuals, international law, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, mountainrunner, myth, non-state actors, open-source, Perception, politics, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, radical transparency, social networks, soft power, theory, war, web 2.0, youtube | 3 comments

• OTB Radio

April 9th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, America, analytic, army, barnett, COIN, counterinsurgency, foreign policy, geopolitics, glittering eye, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, media, military, national security, Outside the beltway, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, schuler, security, sic semper tyrannis, strategy, system administration, theory, war | 2 comments