Archive for the 'tribes'

• Pressfield’s Reified Tribalism

June 11th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 21st century, national security, non-state actors, propaganda, psychology, Religion, social science, strategy, theory, tribes, war, warriors | 19 comments

• The Kilcullen Doctrine

May 29th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, America, authors, book, britain, chicago boyz, COIN, counterinsurgency, defense, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, john nagl, kilcullen, lexington green, military, military reform, national security, non-state actors, security, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, theory, tribes, Uncategorized, war, warriors | 26 comments

• The Pushtunistan War

May 12th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 4GW, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, COIN, counterinsurgency, extremists, foreign policy, insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, national security, non-state actors, obama, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, tribes, war, warriors | Comments Off on The Pushtunistan War

• The Elite as a Tribe

December 9th, 2008 by zen

Posted in academia, cognition, education, horizontal thinking, intellectuals, intelligence, obama, politics, tribes | 30 comments

• Fragile States, Failed States and Spatial Anthropology

April 27th, 2008 by zen

Posted in 4GW, academia, analytic, anthropology, blogosphere, COIN, complex systems, consilience, counterinsurgency, CTLab, cultural intelligence, economics, Geography, geopolitics, history, ideas, intellectuals, intelligence, map, meme, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, readers, social networks, society, state failure, synthesis, theory, tribes | Comments Off on Fragile States, Failed States and Spatial Anthropology