Archive for the 'military contractor'

• New Book: The Rise of Siri by Shlok Vaidya

November 13th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, Adaptability, authors, blog-friends, book, corporations, cultural intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopia, economics, fiction, fun, futurism, globalization, military contractor, national security, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, reading, resilience, security, shlok, society, state failure, tech, uncertainty | 2 comments

• Twenty-Nine Articles

September 18th, 2012 by zen

Posted in Adaptability, Afghanistan, COIN, Collaboration, cooperation, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, cultural intelligence, culture, dilegge, DIME, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, military, military contractor, military intelligence, military professionalism, military reform, national security, non-state actors, organizations, Perception, primary loyalties, state building, Tactics, teaching, theory, war, warriors | 2 comments

• New Book: Mission Revolution by Jennifer Morrison Taw

September 16th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, academia, Afghanistan, africa, al qaida, America, analytic, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, defense, DIME, foreign policy, government, ideas, intellectuals, IR, iraq, military, military contractor, military history, military professionalism, military reform, military training & education, national security, non-state actors, politics, revolution, security, state building, state department, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, system administration, Tactics, theory, war | 10 comments

• Barlow on COIN and Failure

July 29th, 2012 by zen

Posted in analytic, blogosphere, COIN, counterinsurgency, Failed State, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, legitimacy, military, military contractor, military history, non-state actors, Oligarchy, politics, reform, security, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, theory, war, warriors | 2 comments

• Book Review: The Profession by Steven Pressfield

July 25th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 2011, 21st century, 4GW, authors, book, creativity, dystopia, empire, fiction, fun, futurism, geopolitics, history, ideas, intellectuals, mideast, military, military contractor, myth, non-state actors, Patterns, philosophy, politics, reading, roman empire, scenario, shlok, society, state failure, strategy, Tactics, tribes, USMC, war, warriors, Writing | 7 comments