Archive for the '21st century'

• Query: COIN Manual Conference Feedback

May 16th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, Adaptability, Afghanistan, africa, al qaida, army, asymmetric, COIN, counterinsurgency, debate, defense, Foreign Internal Defense, foreign policy, government, Hybrid War, IC, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, leadership, military, military history, military intelligence, military reform, national security, pakistan, Patterns, Perception, politics, primary loyalties, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, reform, security, small wars journal, social science, society, state building, state failure, state terrorism, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, Tactics, Taliban, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war, warriors | Comments Off on Query: COIN Manual Conference Feedback

• Ullman’s Strategic Revolution?

May 13th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, 4GW, academia, Adaptability, America, analytic, Cebrowski, connectivity, DIME, dni, fisking, geopolitics, globalization, government, Hybrid War, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, leadership, metacognition, military, military reform, national security, network theory, Network-centric Warfare, networks, non-state actors, organizations, politics, revolution, risk, security, social science, society, soviet union, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, theory, uncertainty, war, warriors | 9 comments

• Announcement: “Legacies of the Manhattan Project” May 12-13

May 8th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, analytic, blog-friends, blogging, blogosphere, cold war, Communism, complex systems, complexity, deterrence, diplomatic history, foreign policy, game theory, geopolitics, government, historians, historiography, history, ideas, intellectuals, military, military history, national security, network theory, networks, non-state actors, nuclear, Nuclear Diner, physics, politics, public diplomacy, rofer, russia, scenario, science, security, social science, soviet union, stalin, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, theory, think tanks, totalitarianism, truman, twitter, uncertainty, war, wwii | 2 comments

• Educating Divided Minds for an Illiberal State

May 4th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, A.E., academia, analytic, cognition, conservativism, consilience, culture, education, Epistemology, extremists, government, history, ideas, intellectuals, metacognition, national security, Oligarchy, Patterns, philosophy, politics, public school, reform, republican party, scenario, science, social science, society, state failure, synthesis, teaching, theory, totalitarianism | 15 comments

• “No one is really listening, they are just pretending.” – Madhu

May 2nd, 2012 by J.ScottShipman

Posted in 21st century, academia, Adaptability, Alfred Thayer Mahan, analogy, analytic, army, art, attention, Clausewitzian, cognition, Collaboration, creativity, cultural intelligence, defense, deterrence, dialog, exercise, hierarchy, historians, horizontal thinking, innovation, intelligence, interact, J. Scott Shipman, john boyd, military, military reform, national security, navy, powerpoint, rambling, recommended reading, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, teaching, uncertainty, vertical thinking, Writing | 11 comments