Archive for the 'deterrence'

• The Russians are Not Coming….Nor are they Going Away

June 25th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, analytic, defense, deterrence, diplomacy, foreign policy, geopolitics, globalization, government, ideas, leadership, military, military reform, national security, nuclear, obama, Perception, politics, putin, R2P, reform, rule-sets, russia, security, state building, state failure, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, uncertainty, vladimir putin, war | Comments Off on The Russians are Not Coming….Nor are they Going Away

• 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

• “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

• 2012 USAWC Strategy Conference on Youtube Part II.

April 20th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 2012, academia, America, army, debate, defense, deterrence, DIME, economic determinism, economics, foreign policy, government, ideas, intellectuals, military, military reform, national security, politics, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, theory, war | Comments Off on 2012 USAWC Strategy Conference on Youtube Part II.

• The Strategic Dilemma of Bitter-Enders

April 8th, 2012 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, 20th century, analytic, ancient history, china, classics, Clausewitzian, COIN, counterinsurgency, deterrence, dystopia, extremists, geopolitics, historians, historiography, history, hitler, Ho Chi Minh, ideas, insurgency, japan, leadership, logic, military, military history, nazis, Patterns, peace, psychology, risk, society, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, theory, Vietnam War, war | 7 comments