Archive for the 'history'

• Book Talk from Abu Muqawama

May 4th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, arab world, authors, blogosphere, Blogroll, book, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, foreign policy, historians, historiography, history, insurgency, intellectuals, IR, islamic world, islamist, linguistics, mideast, military, military contractor, military reform, national security, reading, Religion, shia, social science, state failure, Theology, theory, war, warriors | Comments Off on Book Talk from Abu Muqawama

• Nagl – Radical Reform for Teaching Strategy?

April 29th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 2010, 21st century, 9/11, academia, America, ancient history, CNAS, cognition, COIN, Collaboration, complexity, connectivity, counterinsurgency, creativity, education, Epistemology, futurism, globalization, government, history, ideas, innovation, insurgency, intellectuals, leadership, media, metacognition, military, military history, military reform, national security, non-state actors, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, public diplomacy, strategy, Strategy and War, superempowered individuals, teaching, tech, theory, uncertainty, war, warriors | Comments Off on Nagl – Radical Reform for Teaching Strategy?

• More Mackinlay – On Why the USG Doesn’t “Get” AQ as a “Global Insurgency”

April 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, army, book, britain, COIN, connectivity, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, defense, DIME, Epistemology, extremists, foreign policy, government, hierarchy, history, IC, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, john nagl, kilcullen, military, military reform, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, security, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, tribes, virtual states, war, warriors, web 2.0 | 9 comments

• Metaphors and Analogies: A Two-Edged Sword

April 15th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, America, analogy, analytic, attention, brain, cognition, complexity, creativity, disinformation, Epistemology, framing, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, intellectuals, IO, meme, metacognition, myth, national security, Perception, politics, priming, propaganda, psychology, social science, society, synthesis, teaching, theory | 13 comments

• Nixon the Liberal

March 24th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 20th century, America, chet richards, government, history, nixon, politics | 10 comments