Archive for the 'insurgency'

• Messy Wars, Navigating Wicked Problems, and the Soul of American Foreign Policy

June 18th, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in 21st century, 9/11, blog-friends, burma, Character, cold war, drones, education, games, India, insurgency, just war, military, philosophy, public school, small wars journal, TED, Uncategorized, war, wicked problems | 14 comments

• Book Review: The Snake Eaters by Owen West

June 8th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, al qaida, America, arab world, army, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, Foreign Internal Defense, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, leadership, military, military history, military reform, national security, non-state actors, reading, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, tribes, USMC, war, warriors | 2 comments

• Query: COIN Manual Conference Feedback

May 16th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, Adaptability, Afghanistan, africa, al qaida, army, asymmetric, COIN, counterinsurgency, debate, defense, Foreign Internal Defense, foreign policy, government, Hybrid War, IC, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, leadership, military, military history, military intelligence, military reform, national security, pakistan, Patterns, Perception, politics, primary loyalties, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, reform, security, small wars journal, social science, society, state building, state failure, state terrorism, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, Tactics, Taliban, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war, warriors | Comments Off on Query: COIN Manual Conference Feedback

• Ullman’s Strategic Revolution?

May 13th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, 4GW, academia, Adaptability, America, analytic, Cebrowski, connectivity, DIME, dni, fisking, geopolitics, globalization, government, Hybrid War, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, leadership, metacognition, military, military reform, national security, network theory, Network-centric Warfare, networks, non-state actors, organizations, politics, revolution, risk, security, social science, society, soviet union, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, theory, uncertainty, war, warriors | 9 comments

• History Will Judge Only if We Ask the Right Questions

April 18th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, 9/11, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, arab world, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, defense, DIME, diplomatic history, Epistemology, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, historians, history, IC, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, iraq, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, media, military, military history, military intelligence, national security, non-state actors, Perception, politics, Questions, security, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war, warriors | 8 comments