Archive for the 'society'

• Creativity in the IC – Or the Lack of It

March 28th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, analytic, art hutchinson, bias, CIA, cognition, complex systems, complexity, connectivity, consilience, counterintuitive, creativity, Epistemology, framing, futurism, government, horizontal thinking, IC, ideas, insight, intellectuals, intelligence, medici effect, metacognition, military intelligence, national security, Perception, psychology, scenario, social science, society, synthesis, theory | 6 comments

• Education, Books and the Digital Age

March 24th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, academia, America, analytic, book, cognition, computers, culture, economics, education, edutopia, ideas, intellectuals, intelligence, open-source, periodicals, psychology, public school, reading, science, society, teaching, tech, web 2.0 | 10 comments

• Freedom(TM) by Suarez

March 23rd, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, authors, book, Collaboration, complex systems, connectivity, culture, cyberpunk, Cyberwar, Failed State, fiction, fun, futurism, ideas, john robb, networks, reading, resilience, science fiction, shlok, social networks, society, web 2.0 | 3 comments

• The Need for Old Hands: Mackinlay on Old COIN

March 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, academia, Afghanistan, africa, America, analytic, anglo-saxons, anthropology, arab world, army, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, DIME, diplomacy, education, empire, foreign language, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, historians, IC, ideas, India, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, linguistics, mideast, military, military reform, national security, politics, public diplomacy, reading, Religion, social science, society, soft power, state department, strategy, Strategy and War, theory, tribes, war, warriors | 15 comments

• The US Army goes Crossfit and America’s Changing Social Mores

March 17th, 2010 by zen

Posted in America, army, culture, dilegge, education, exercise, fun, humor, military, military reform, personal, public school, rambling, society, warriors | 25 comments