Archive for the 'Failed State'

• Blast From the Past: What if Kim Jong-Il Died?

December 19th, 2011 by zen

Posted in analytic, dictator, dystopia, extremists, Failed State, risk, state failure, Wikistrat | Comments Off on Blast From the Past: What if Kim Jong-Il Died?

• COIN may be Dead but 4GW has a New Lease on Life

December 12th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, analytic, barnett, black globalization, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, dystopia, Failed State, foreign policy, geopolitics, gian gentile, government, ideas, insurgency, international law, john robb, military, military reform, national debt, national security, non-state actors, politics, R2P, reform, risk, security, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war, warriors | 29 comments

• Major General Fuller is Right

November 5th, 2011 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, Afghanistan, COIN, counterinsurgency, diplomacy, disinformation, Failed State, government, military, Perception, politics, war | 7 comments

• Beware of Greeks Spurning Gifts…..

November 2nd, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, capitalism, connectivity, diplomacy, dystopia, economic determinism, economics, europe, Evolution, Failed State, geopolitics, globalization, government, Oligarchy, organizations, reform, state failure | 15 comments

• “What You Need to Know, Not What You Want to Hear”

September 16th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 3 gen gangs, 4GW, academia, analytic, counterinsurgency, criminals, dystopia, Failed State, foreign policy, insurgency, intellectuals, Latin America, Mexico, military, national security, networks, non-state actors, primary loyalties, robert j. bunker, security, small wars journal, social science, state failure, swj blog, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, war | 9 comments