Archive for the 'national security'

• Mali: the wider context, the right now and the longue durée

January 22nd, 2013 by Charles Cameron

Posted in africa, analytic, blog-friends, blogosphere, Charles Cameron, historians, historiography, history, islam.insurgency, national security, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Mali: the wider context, the right now and the longue durée

• “Sustaining” your Way to Serfdom as a Grand Strategy

January 14th, 2013 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, 2013, 21st century, America, analytic, change, Creepy-state, democracy, dystopia, economics, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, freedom, geopolitics, government, ideas, intellectuals, legitimacy, logic, national security, Oligarchy, politics, protest, reform, society, state failure, strategy, theory, think tanks, threat | 25 comments

• Boyd and Beyond Local DC Event

December 18th, 2012 by J.ScottShipman

Posted in 2012, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Boyd 2012, Clausewitzian, diplomatic history, education, Epistemology, Fred Leland, J. Scott Shipman, john boyd, law enforcement, maneuver warfare, metacognition, military history, military professionalism, military reform, military training & education, national security, navy, readers, recommended reading, small wars journal, social science, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Uncategorized, warriors | 8 comments

• New Book: The Violent Image by Neville Bolt

December 14th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, Adaptability, analytic, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, history, ideas, imaginal, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, military, military history, myth, national security, network theory, networks, non-state actors, organizations, Patterns, politics, reading, social media, social networks, social science, society, soft power, strategy, symbolism, Tactics, tech, terrorism, theory, visualization, war, warriors, web 2.0 | Comments Off on New Book: The Violent Image by Neville Bolt

• Two Cheers for the State?

December 12th, 2012 by zen

Posted in A.E., analytic, blog-friends, blogosphere, Failed State, government, historians, history, ideas, intellectuals, IR, markets, military, military history, national security, network theory, networks, non-state actors, Patterns, Perception, politics, primary loyalties, revolution, security, social networks, social science, society, state building, state failure, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, uncertainty, war | 10 comments