Archive for the 'complex systems'

• Nerds of Jihad and the Virtual Worlds Evolution

July 1st, 2008 by zen

Posted in 21st century, attention, cognition, complex systems, culture, extremists, foreign policy, futurism, IO, islamist, john boyd, legitimacy, media, meme, national security, networks, non-state actors, psychology, security, social networks, strategy, synthesis, terrorism, theory, ubiwar, war, web 2.0 | 2 comments

• A Framework For Strategic Cultural Analysis -PPT

June 1st, 2008 by zen

Posted in 21st century, academia, analytic, anthropology, cognition, complex systems, consilience, cultural intelligence, culture, framing, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, intelligence, small wars council, theory, tyrrell | 2 comments

• Global Guerillas, Meet the Resilient Communitarians!

May 17th, 2008 by zen

Posted in 21st century, complex systems, complexity, economics, physics, politics, resilience, risk, robb, rule-sets, science, theory | 3 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

• Seeds of a Caste Soldiery

April 1st, 2008 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, army, complex systems, culture, defense, futurism, military, organizations, society, theory | 16 comments