Archive for the 'authors'

• Booksbooksbooksbooks….

August 1st, 2011 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, America, analytic, authors, book, Clausewitzian, counterinsurgency, defense, DIME, Evolution, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, historians, historiography, history, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, islamic world, military, military history, national security, non-state actors, politics, reading, social science, SSI, steven metz, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, The Project, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war | 3 comments

• Chet on TEMPO….Rao on OODA

July 26th, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, attention, authors, book, brain, chet richards, cognition, Epistemology, fabius maximus, feedback, ideas, intellectuals, john boyd, metacognition, Patterns, Perception, psychology, science, social science, strategist, strategy, synthesis, Tactics, theory, uncertainty | 5 comments

• Book Review: The Profession by Steven Pressfield

July 25th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 2011, 21st century, 4GW, authors, book, creativity, dystopia, empire, fiction, fun, futurism, geopolitics, history, ideas, intellectuals, mideast, military, military contractor, myth, non-state actors, Patterns, philosophy, politics, reading, roman empire, scenario, shlok, society, state failure, strategy, Tactics, tribes, USMC, war, warriors, Writing | 7 comments

• More Books Arrived….

July 19th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, 4GW, academia, arab world, authors, book, Clausewitzian, COIN, counterinsurgency, DIME, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, The Project, theory, war | 18 comments

• Now Reading….

July 15th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, fiction, futurism, gangs, ideas, insurgency, islamist, Latin America, military, military reform, national security, non-state actors, primary loyalties, reading, scenario, security, society, state failure, Tactics, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, veterans, war, warriors | 4 comments