Archive for the 'military reform'

• Guest Post: Shipman on Boyd and Beyond, 2010

October 21st, 2010 by zen

Posted in 4GW, 5GW, book, Boyd 2010, business, Character, cognition, COIN, complex systems, complexity, counterinsurgency, ideas, insight, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, john boyd, metacognition, military, military history, military reform, national security, Perception, psychology, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, superempowered individuals, Tactics, theory, uncertainty | 9 comments

• Breaking the Legions

October 12th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 4GW, Afghanistan, America, analytic, army, fabius maximus, intellectuals, military, military reform, national security, organizations, politics, society, state failure, war, warriors | 21 comments

• Tom Barnett Waves Goodbye to the Blogosphere

September 23rd, 2010 by zen

Posted in authors, barnett, blogosphere, connectivity, core, defense, DIME, economic determinism, gap, geopolitics, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, maps of war, military, military reform, national security, non-state actors, PNM, theory, war | 10 comments

• Boyd Conference 2010: October 15- 16 at Quantico

September 15th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 4GW, 5GW, Boyd 2010, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, john boyd, metacognition, military, military reform, national security, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, theory, war | 2 comments

• The Strategist as Demiurge

August 7th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, analytic, anthropology, cognition, creativity, cultural intelligence, culture, DIME, education, Epistemology, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, intellectuals, intelligence, metacognition, military, military reform, psychology, small wars journal, social science, SSI, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, synthesis, teaching, theory, vertical thinking, war | 10 comments