Archive for the 'national security'

• 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

• Nixon vs. The Neoconservatives?

December 11th, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, America, conservativism, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, historians, HNN, ideas, intellectuals, national security, neoconservatism, nixon, politics, strategy | 13 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

• Metz on the Afghan Surge

December 4th, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, COIN, counterinsurgency, Failed State, foreign policy, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, military, national security, security, SSI, state building, state failure, steven metz, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, tribes, war | 3 comments

• President Obama on Afghanistan

December 2nd, 2009 by zen

Posted in 2009, 21st century, 4GW, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, barack obama, democratic party, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, government, insurgency, islamic world, islamist, leadership, military, national security, non-state actors, obama, pakistan, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, tribes, war | 4 comments