Archive for the 'Tactics'

• Book Review: A Terrorist’s Call to Global Jihad

December 29th, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, al qaida, analytic, book, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, mideast, military, national security, non-state actors, organizations, politics, Religion, social science, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, syria, Tactics, terrorism, theory | 7 comments

• Ruminating on Strategic Thinking

December 21st, 2011 by zen

Posted in analytic, cognition, cultural intelligence, Epistemology, feedback, horizontal thinking, ideas, intelligence, leadership, metacognition, military, military history, organizations, Patterns, Perception, politics, psychology, Questions, rambling, risk, society, strategist, strategy, synthesis, Tactics, theory, uncertainty, war | 10 comments

• 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