Archive for the '21st century'

• COIN may be Dead but 4GW has a New Lease on Life

December 12th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, analytic, barnett, black globalization, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, dystopia, Failed State, foreign policy, geopolitics, gian gentile, government, ideas, insurgency, international law, john robb, military, military reform, national debt, national security, non-state actors, politics, R2P, reform, risk, security, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war, warriors | 29 comments

• Announcement: America 3.0

November 28th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, analytic, authors, blog-friends, blogging, book, chicago boyz, conservativism, culture, democracy, economics, ideas, intellectuals, lexington green, politics, reform | 10 comments

• The Peace Officers and the Practitioner

November 17th, 2011 by Charles Cameron

Posted in 21st century, Charles Cameron, OWS, peace, Perception, psychology, Uncategorized, Zen | 2 comments

• The Human Face of War, a second review

November 16th, 2011 by J.ScottShipman

Posted in 21st century, army, Clausewitzian, complex systems, J. Scott Shipman, john boyd, leadership, military, military reform, national security, recommended reading, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, synthesis, Tactics, Uncategorized, uncertainty, war, warriors, Zen | 9 comments

• Jihad for all Seasons: Review of Storming the World Stage (in PRAGATI)

November 10th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, analytic, authors, book, extremists, foreign policy, geopolitics, ideas, illegal combatants, India, insurgency, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, media, non-state actors, organizations, pakistan, primary loyalties, security, state terrorism, Tactics, terrorism, transnational criminal organization | 7 comments