Archive for the 'Epistemology'

• 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

• Before Disruption….Thinking

April 23rd, 2012 by zen

Posted in 21st century, academia, Adaptability, analytic, blogosphere, brain, cognition, Collaboration, connectivity, consilience, cooperation, creativity, crowdsourcing, culture, education, Epistemology, horizontal thinking, ideas, insight, intellectuals, intelligence, metacognition, military, military reform, psychology, reform, rethinking thinking, small wars journal, social science, society, strategy, swj blog, synthesis, teaching, theory, Uncategorized, vertical thinking | 16 comments

• History Will Judge Only if We Ask the Right Questions

April 18th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, 9/11, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, arab world, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, defense, DIME, diplomatic history, Epistemology, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, historians, history, IC, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, iraq, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, media, military, military history, military intelligence, national security, non-state actors, Perception, politics, Questions, security, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war, warriors | 8 comments

• Nancy Fouts and the heart of the matter

March 22nd, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in analogy, art, britain, Buddhism, Charles Cameron, christianity, cognition, counterpoint, creativity, cultural intelligence, emotion, Epistemology, framing, gender, graphical thinking, horizontal thinking, ideas, insight, koan, medici effect, Patterns, rethinking thinking, symmetry, visualization | 2 comments

• Which world is more vivid? This, or the next?

March 19th, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in Afghanistan, al qaida, anthropology, barack obama, bin laden, Charles Cameron, cultural intelligence, Epistemology, extremists, history, myth, Perception, primary loyalties, Religion, rethinking thinking, scriptures, symbolism, terrorism, Theology, Uncategorized, war | 5 comments