Archive for the 'Afghanistan'

• Corn’s Caliphates in Wonderland

March 26th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 4GW, 9/11, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analogy, analytic, anthropology, arab world, authors, COIN, cold war, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, diplomatic history, extremists, Failed State, geopolitics, government, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, mideast, national security, non-state actors, organizations, pakistan, Perception, politics, primary loyalties, public diplomacy, rambling, Religion, small wars journal, social networks, social science, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, synthesis, terrorism, Theology, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, turkey, virtual states, war | 12 comments

• Government by Assassination

March 7th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 5GW, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, history, islamic world, islamist, military, military history, national security, non-state actors, pakistan, politics, state failure, state terrorism, terrorism | 8 comments

• Two courtyards, two hundred camels

March 6th, 2011 by Charles Cameron

Posted in Afghanistan, analogy, arab world, authors, Charles Cameron, cognition, creativity, cultural intelligence, fun, games, humor, meme, rambling, recommended reading, symmetry, Writing | 3 comments

• Guest Post: DARPA, STORyNet and the Fate of the War by J. Scott Shipman

March 2nd, 2011 by zen

Posted in Afghanistan, al qaida, analogy, analytic, cognition, cognitive goods, Collaboration, counterinsurgency, creativity, cultural intelligence, culture, emotion, Epistemology, extremists, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, metacognition, military intelligence, myth, non-state actors, organizations, OSINT, Perception, primary loyalties, priming, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, Religion, scenario, social science, synthesis, Tactics, Theology, theory, tribes, war, warriors | 11 comments

• Farrall in Foreign Affairs:How al Qaida Works

February 24th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, analytic, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, extremists, foreign policy, globalguerillas, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, john robb, military intelligence, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, politics, social science, strategy, Tactics, terrorism, Theology, theory, war | 6 comments