Archive for the 'history'

• 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

• 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

• Senator’s Son

February 17th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, America, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, fiction, history, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, islamic world, mideast, military, non-state actors, Perception, psychology, reading, society, tribes, veterans, war, warriors, Writing | 11 comments

• Get Out Your Godwin’s Law-O-Meter

February 7th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 20th century, academia, America, conservativism, democracy, democratic party, fisking, framing, free speech, fun, government, historians, history, hitler, HNN, ideas, intellectuals, Liberalism, myth, neoconservatism, philosophy, politics, propaganda, republican party, social science, society, theory, totalitarianism | 9 comments

• Book Review: The Forty Years War

February 2nd, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, America, authors, book, cold war, conservativism, defense, democracy, diplomacy, diplomatic history, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, historians, historiography, history, ideas, ikle, intellectuals, military, national security, neoconservatism, nixon, politics, republican party, schlesinger, society, strategy, war | 3 comments