Archive for the 'soft power'

• 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?

• Google as a Dishonest Broker?

April 13th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, analytic, computers, culture, democracy, disinformation, framing, free speech, freedom, government, innovation, IO, legitimacy, liberty, media, national security, non-state actors, obama, organizations, politics, radical transparency, search engine, society, soft power, tech, theory, web 2.0 | 7 comments

• Armstrong on Wikileaks

April 12th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, analytic, attention, bias, blogosphere, conspiracy, Cyberwar, disinformation, framing, globalization, ideas, innovation, insurgency, intellectuals, international law, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, mountainrunner, myth, non-state actors, open-source, Perception, politics, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, radical transparency, social networks, soft power, theory, war, web 2.0, youtube | 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

• Even a Dancing Fool Can be a Leader

March 8th, 2010 by zen

Posted in attention, brain, cognition, complex systems, counterintuitive, culture, framing, freeplay, fun, global guerillas, humor, ideas, insight, john robb, leadership, metacognition, mob, music, network theory, networks, Perception, psychology, social networks, society, soft power, theory, web 2.0, youtube | 11 comments