Archive for the 'Patterns'

• One thing leads to an unexpected other

August 13th, 2011 by Charles Cameron

Posted in analytic, black swans, Charles Cameron, CIA, cognition, connectivity, counterintuitive, creativity, cultural intelligence, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, intelligence, metacognition, myth, OSINT, Patterns, Perception, psychology, social networks, synthesis, Uncategorized | 32 comments

• Guest Post: Politics Requires People (a Response to “War, the Individual, Strategy and the State”)

August 4th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, academia, analytic, classics, Clausewitzian, Collaboration, criminals, culture, democracy, Epistemology, feedback, framing, futurism, government, historians, historiography, history, ideas, intellectuals, JosephFouche, legitimacy, linguistics, metacognition, military, military history, non-state actors, Patterns, philosophy, politics, psychology, reader response, Seydlitz89, social science, society, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, superempowered individuals, synthesis, Tactics, terrorism, theory, war | 8 comments

• Chet on TEMPO….Rao on OODA

July 26th, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, attention, authors, book, brain, chet richards, cognition, Epistemology, fabius maximus, feedback, ideas, intellectuals, john boyd, metacognition, Patterns, Perception, psychology, science, social science, strategist, strategy, synthesis, Tactics, theory, uncertainty | 5 comments

• Book Review: The Profession by Steven Pressfield

July 25th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 2011, 21st century, 4GW, authors, book, creativity, dystopia, empire, fiction, fun, futurism, geopolitics, history, ideas, intellectuals, mideast, military, military contractor, myth, non-state actors, Patterns, philosophy, politics, reading, roman empire, scenario, shlok, society, state failure, strategy, Tactics, tribes, USMC, war, warriors, Writing | 7 comments

• Wylie’s Military Strategy

July 23rd, 2011 by J.ScottShipman

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, Afghanistan, America, Clausewitzian, defense, J. Scott Shipman, mao, military history, national security, navy, Patterns, philosophy, recommended reading, Strategy and War, theory, Uncategorized, war, wwi, wwii | 11 comments