Archive for the '4GW'

• Battleground Yemen

January 27th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 4GW, al qaida, arab world, COIN, coming anarchy, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, Geography, history, insurgency, islamic world, islamist, map, mideast, non-state actors, primary loyalties, shia, state failure, terrorism, tribes, war, warriors | Comments Off on Battleground Yemen

• A Short Rant……

December 27th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 4GW, al qaida, America, government, illegal combatants, islamist, national security, non-state actors, security, state department, terrorism | 15 comments

• Stocking Stuffers……

December 12th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 3 gen gangs, 4GW, authors, barnett, book, brave new war, capitalism, cognition, Cyberwar, defense, foreign policy, futurism, gangs, gap, geopolitics, global guerillas, globalization, government, ideas, intellectuals, intelligence, metacognition, military, military reform, national security, non-state actors, PNM, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, recommended reading, robb, sociobiology, soft power, state building, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, Threats in the Age of Obama, war, warriors | 6 comments

• None Dare Call it a Rogue State

December 9th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, army, asia, barack obama, CIA, COIN, counterinsurgency, DIME, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, IC, India, insurgency, intellectuals, isaac, islamic world, islamist, military, national security, non-state actors, nuclear, obama, pakistan, Perception, politics, primary loyalties, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, war | 34 comments

• Schippert on COIN as an Exit not a Strategy

December 4th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 4GW, Afghanistan, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, military, networks, non-state actors, obama, periodicals, primary loyalties, social networks, strategy, Strategy and War, threatswatch, tribes, war, warriors | 3 comments