Archive for the 'reading'

• Book Review: The Snake Eaters by Owen West

June 8th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, al qaida, America, arab world, army, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, Foreign Internal Defense, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, leadership, military, military history, military reform, national security, non-state actors, reading, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, tribes, USMC, war, warriors | 2 comments

• Book Review: The Hunt for KSM

May 14th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 9/11, al qaida, America, authors, bin laden, book, CIA, criminals, cultural intelligence, extremists, foreign policy, government, history, IC, illegal combatants, intelligence, international law, iran, islamic world, islamist, justice, khalid sheikh mohammed, media, military, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, pakistan, planes, politics, reading, security, superempowered individuals, Tactics, Taliban, terrorism, torture, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war | 2 comments

• Change: a poem from The Poetry of the Taliban

May 8th, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in Afghanistan, analytic, book, Charles Cameron, poetry, poetry of war, propaganda, reading, symbolism, Taliban, Uncategorized, war, Writing | 3 comments

• Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command—currently reading

April 24th, 2012 by J.ScottShipman

Posted in 19th century, Alfred Thayer Mahan, America, blogosphere, Clausewitzian, cognition, Collaboration, complex systems, Epistemology, J. Scott Shipman, Patterns, reading, recommended reading, strategy, Strategy and War, vertical thinking | 3 comments

• New Books….

March 25th, 2012 by zen

Posted in authors, book, reading | 9 comments