Archive for the 'Strategy and War'

• Do Oligarchies Create Insurgencies?

November 29th, 2011 by zen

Posted in analytic, Arab Spring, COIN, counterinsurgency, democracy, government, history, ideas, insurgency, military, military history, military reform, national security, non-state actors, Oligarchy, politics, primary loyalties, reform, revolution, scenario, social science, state building, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, terrorism, theory, Uncategorized, war | 28 comments

• Gentile: COIN is Dead, Long Live Strategy!

November 22nd, 2011 by zen

Posted in COIN, counterinsurgency, gian gentile, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, Tactics, theory, war, warriors | 1 comment

• Hen’s Teeth and Presidential Strategists

November 18th, 2011 by zen

Posted in geopolitics, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, Uncategorized | 13 comments

• The Human Face of War, a second review

November 16th, 2011 by J.ScottShipman

Posted in 21st century, army, Clausewitzian, complex systems, J. Scott Shipman, john boyd, leadership, military, military reform, national security, recommended reading, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, synthesis, Tactics, Uncategorized, uncertainty, war, warriors, Zen | 9 comments

• Hoover on Charles Hill and Hill on Grand Strategy

November 8th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, academia, America, ancient history, cultural intelligence, culture, DIME, diplomacy, Epistemology, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, history, ideas, intellectuals, islamic world, literature, myth, national security, politics, reading, revolution, society, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, synthesis, teaching, theory | 5 comments