Archive for the 'anthropology'

• The Need for Old Hands: Mackinlay on Old COIN

March 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, academia, Afghanistan, africa, America, analytic, anglo-saxons, anthropology, arab world, army, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, DIME, diplomacy, education, empire, foreign language, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, historians, IC, ideas, India, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, linguistics, mideast, military, military reform, national security, politics, public diplomacy, reading, Religion, social science, society, soft power, state department, strategy, Strategy and War, theory, tribes, war, warriors | 15 comments

• Cameron on Conflicts of Commands, Part II. – A Guest Post Series

March 12th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, 5GW, academia, America, analogy, analytic, anthropology, arab world, army, Charles Cameron, christianity, cognition, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, cultural intelligence, culture, Epistemology, extremists, genocide, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, legitimacy, logic, media, meme, metacognition, mideast, military, military intelligence, myth, national security, non-state actors, Perception, philosophy, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, Religion, rule-sets, social networks, social science, society, symmetry, synthesis, terrorism, Theology, theory, Viral | 10 comments

• Guest Post: Iran or Afghanistan? The Black Flags of Khorasan…

September 17th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 21st century, academia, Afghanistan, analytic, anthropology, arab world, authors, Charles Cameron, cultural intelligence, culture, extremists, foreign policy, ideas, intellectuals, iran, islamic world, islamist, mideast, myth, national security, non-state actors, psychology, Religion, shia, terrorism, Theology, theory, war, warriors | 14 comments

• Equal Time: Bleuer on Jones

August 16th, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, Afghanistan, anthropology, feedback, history, intellectuals, islamic world, tribes | 3 comments

• Mustering the Tribe

July 14th, 2009 by zen

Posted in Afghanistan, al qaida, anthropology, authors, blogging, Blogroll, culture, history, ideas, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, Religion, social networks, tribes, warriors | 4 comments