Archive for the 'insurgency'

• Guest Post: Shipman Reviews Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason K. Stearns

May 18th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, africa, analytic, authors, book, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, gap, government, ideas, insurgency, J. Scott Shipman, non-state actors, primary loyalties, reading, state failure, tribes, war, warriors | Comments Off on Guest Post: Shipman Reviews Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason K. Stearns

• The Abbottabad raid: tellings and retellings

May 5th, 2011 by Charles Cameron

Posted in al qaida, America, analytic, barack obama, bin laden, book, Charles Cameron, computers, creativity, government, insurgency, meme, Perception, priming, propaganda, psychology, recommended reading, Uncategorized, uncertainty | 6 comments

• And Taking Names!

April 22nd, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, 9/11, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, Failed State, foreign policy, insurgency, islamic world, islamist, leadership, military, national security, non-state actors, pakistan, state failure, state terrorism, terrorism, tribes, war, warriors | 9 comments

• The Year of Living Memory

April 6th, 2011 by Charles Cameron

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 9/11, analogy, ancient history, arab world, Charles Cameron, china, classics, cognitive goods, creativity, cultural intelligence, extremists, foreign policy, framing, geopolitics, historiography, history, insurgency, iran, iraq, myth, psychology, Religion, risk, search engine, symmetry, Uncategorized | 4 comments

• 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