Archive for the 'government'

• Reflecting on Neo-COIN and the Global Insurgency, Part II.

March 11th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, al qaida, America, analytic, arab world, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, extremists, foreign policy, government, history, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, john nagl, john robb, kilcullen, Kuomintang, Mao ZeDong, mideast, military, military reform, national security, non-state actors, politics, primary loyalties, Religion, robb, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism | 9 comments

• Cameron on Conflict of Commands – A Guest Post Series

March 10th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 5GW, academia, analytic, army, Charles Cameron, cognition, cultural intelligence, culture, Epistemology, extremists, framing, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, insight, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, islamist, legitimacy, logic, meme, metacognition, military, myth, national security, non-state actors, Perception, philosophy, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, Religion, social science, society, synthesis, terrorism, Theology, theory | 8 comments

• The Rule of Law

March 6th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 16th century, America, anglo-saxons, anglosphere, britain, egalitarianism, europe, Evolution, freedom, government, history, ideas, legal, legitimacy, liberty, logic, politics, Republic, revolution, rule-sets, society, theory | 17 comments

• Reflecting on Neo-COIN and the Global Insurgency, Part I.

February 27th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, analytic, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, extremists, foreign policy, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, islamic world, islamist, john nagl, kilcullen, mideast, military, military reform, national security, network theory, networks, non-state actors, politics, social networks, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, Theology, theory, tribes, war | 13 comments

• Arquilla on the New Rules of War

February 25th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, 9/11, academia, Afghanistan, Air Force, al qaida, America, army, authors, Cebrowski, complex systems, connectivity, david ronfeldt, defense, foreign policy, futurism, government, hierarchy, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, john arquilla, military, military reform, national security, navy, network theory, Network-centric Warfare, networks, non-state actors, organizations, robotics, social networks, theory, war | 6 comments