Archive for the 'defense'

• Van Creveld – Keynote Address at Strategy Conference

April 29th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, 5GW, academia, ancient history, cultural intelligence, culture, defense, education, futurism, government, historians, ideas, legal, legitimacy, military, military history, military reform, national security, non-state actors, primary loyalties, society, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, theory, war | 5 comments

• Adaptive Thinking, Resilient Behavior

April 20th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 4GW, 5GW, America, Blogroll, cognition, complexity, david ronfeldt, defense, education, Epistemology, freedom, freeplay, futurism, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, leadership, liberty, metacognition, national security, philosophy, psychology, resilience, risk, scenario, security, society, teaching, theory, uncertainty, vertical thinking | 5 comments

• More Mackinlay – On Why the USG Doesn’t “Get” AQ as a “Global Insurgency”

April 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, army, book, britain, COIN, connectivity, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, defense, DIME, Epistemology, extremists, foreign policy, government, hierarchy, history, IC, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, john nagl, kilcullen, military, military reform, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, security, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, tribes, virtual states, war, warriors, web 2.0 | 9 comments

• The Day of the Clausewitzians

April 8th, 2010 by zen

Posted in authors, Clausewitz Roundtable, defense, ideas, intellectuals, lexington green, military, military history, philosophy, security, small wars journal, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, theory, war | 3 comments

• The Surge, Rigor, Yardsticks and Mediums

April 7th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, America, arab world, bias, blogosphere, CNAS, cognition, COIN, complexity, counterinsurgency, defense, Epistemology, fisking, foreign policy, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, islamic world, mideast, military, military history, national security, politics, rambling, social science, state building, strategy, Strategy and War, theory, tribes, vertical thinking, war | 12 comments