Archive for the 'national security'

• Reforming Intelligence vs.Intelligent Reforms

December 5th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 2012, 21st century, America, CIA, foreign policy, government, IC, ideas, intelligence, military, Musings, national security, new york times, organizations, Patterns, Perception, petraeus, politics, rambling, reform, security | 8 comments

• Cross-grain thinking, 3: ASP’s Report on Climate Security

November 21st, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in bateson, britain, Buddhist, Charles Cameron, global warming, intelligence, Islam, music, national security, nature, poetry, rethinking thinking, saudi arabia, science, scriptures, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Cross-grain thinking, 3: ASP’s Report on Climate Security

• Strategy, Power and Diffusion

November 19th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 4GW, Afghanistan, America, analytic, asymmetric, china, complex systems, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, DIME, economics, history, ideas, insurgency, logic, military, military history, national security, non-state actors, physics, politics, russia, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, Taliban, theory, van creveld, war, warriors, william lind, wwii | 22 comments

• 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

• The 2012 Warlord Loop Reading List at SWJ

November 13th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 2012, book, national security, reading, small wars journal, swj blog | 7 comments