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• Hammes – Who Participates in War?

April 29th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 2010, 21st century, 4GW, 5GW, 9/11, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, COIN, complexity, counterinsurgency, government, hammes, historians, insurgency, intellectuals, military, military history, military reform, Network-centric Warfare, networks, non-state actors, open-source, organizations, primary loyalties, security, social networks, society, soft power, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, superempowered individuals, terrorism, theory, war, warriors | Comments Off on Hammes – Who Participates in War?

• Thought Experiment

April 22nd, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, academia, America, culture, democracy, dystopia, economics, education, Evolution, feedback, fun, futurism, government, hierarchy, humor, ideas, intellectuals, leadership, legitimacy, Liberalism, logic, networks, Oligarchy, politics, reform, Republic, scenario, social networks, society, theory | 39 comments

• Armstrong on Wikileaks

April 12th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, analytic, attention, bias, blogosphere, conspiracy, Cyberwar, disinformation, framing, globalization, ideas, innovation, insurgency, intellectuals, international law, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, mountainrunner, myth, non-state actors, open-source, Perception, politics, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, radical transparency, social networks, soft power, theory, war, web 2.0, youtube | 3 comments

• Freedom(TM) by Suarez

March 23rd, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, authors, book, Collaboration, complex systems, connectivity, culture, cyberpunk, Cyberwar, Failed State, fiction, fun, futurism, ideas, john robb, networks, reading, resilience, science fiction, shlok, social networks, society, web 2.0 | 3 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