Archive for the 'non-state actors'

• Is 4GW Dead?: Point-Counterpoint and Commentary

May 28th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, analytic, brave new war, chet richards, Clausewitzian, COIN, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, criminals, dni, dystopia, fabius maximus, Failed State, geopolitics, government, hammes, history, Hybrid War, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, john boyd, john robb, legitimacy, military, military history, narcoterror, national security, non-state actors, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, society, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, tribes, war | 28 comments

• Are Insurgencies “Antifragile”?

May 16th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, Afghanistan, africa, analytic, antifragile, COIN, complex systems, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, dystopia, extremists, Failed State, Foreign Internal Defense, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, john robb, law enforcement, Mexico, military, national security, non-state actors, open-source, organizations, society, state failure, Strategy and War, synthesis, terrorism, theory, war | 19 comments

• The Boston Bombers and Superempowerment

May 1st, 2013 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, 2013, 21st century, counterintuitive, counterterrorism, definitions, economics, extremists, freedom, glittering eye, government, ideas, islamist, law enforcement, national security, non-state actors, politics, risk, schuler, security, society, strategy, terrorism, theory | 24 comments

• Syria is Not Rwanda

April 29th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, Arab Spring, arab world, Failed State, fisking, foreign policy, genocide, geopolitics, ideas, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, national security, non-state actors, obama, R2P, revolution, scenario, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, sunni, syria, tribes, uncertainty, war | 6 comments

• Red lines and the credibility arms race

April 26th, 2013 by Lynn C. Rees

Posted in complex systems, counterinsurgency, deterrence, diplomacy, guardian, Human Rights, illusion, insurgency, law enforcement, long tail, Lynn C. Rees, metaphor, non-state actors, nuance / subtlety, public diplomacy, stochastic, superempowered individuals, system administration, wicked problems | 3 comments