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• Hammes – Who Participates in War?

April 29th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 2010, 21st century, 4GW, 5GW, 9/11, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, COIN, complexity, counterinsurgency, government, hammes, historians, insurgency, intellectuals, military, military history, military reform, Network-centric Warfare, networks, non-state actors, open-source, organizations, primary loyalties, security, social networks, society, soft power, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, superempowered individuals, terrorism, theory, war, warriors | Comments Off on Hammes – Who Participates in War?

• Epistemology is More Important than Politics

April 27th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, analytic, bias, cognition, culture, dystopia, economics, education, emotion, Epistemology, ideas, intellectuals, intelligence, logic, metacognition, Perception, personal, philosophy, politics, psychology, recommended viewing, science, social science, society, theory | 13 comments

• Thought Experiment

April 22nd, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, academia, America, culture, democracy, dystopia, economics, education, Evolution, feedback, fun, futurism, government, hierarchy, humor, ideas, intellectuals, leadership, legitimacy, Liberalism, logic, networks, Oligarchy, politics, reform, Republic, scenario, social networks, society, theory | 39 comments

• Adaptive Thinking, Resilient Behavior

April 20th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 4GW, 5GW, America, Blogroll, cognition, complexity, david ronfeldt, defense, education, Epistemology, freedom, freeplay, futurism, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, leadership, liberty, metacognition, national security, philosophy, psychology, resilience, risk, scenario, security, society, teaching, theory, uncertainty, vertical thinking | 5 comments

• Metaphors and Analogies: A Two-Edged Sword

April 15th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, America, analogy, analytic, attention, brain, cognition, complexity, creativity, disinformation, Epistemology, framing, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, intellectuals, IO, meme, metacognition, myth, national security, Perception, politics, priming, propaganda, psychology, social science, society, synthesis, teaching, theory | 13 comments