Archive for the 'Musings'

• Octavian Manea interviews MIT’s Roger D. Peterson

April 19th, 2013 by zen

Posted in 4GW, academia, America, analytic, classics, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, leadership, military, military history, military training & education, Musings, non-state actors, politics, psychology, security, small wars journal, social science, society, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, tribes, uncertainty, war, warriors | 8 comments

• Mindlessness and Mindfulness

January 22nd, 2013 by zen

Posted in academia, cognition, contemplative, culture, fun, ideas, intellectuals, Musings, philosophy, society, youtube | 11 comments

• The Hobbit: Narrative Validation or Vandalism?

December 30th, 2012 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, art, classics, fisking, ideas, j.r.r. tolkien, literature, movies, Musings, myth | 7 comments

• Reforming Intelligence vs.Intelligent Reforms

December 5th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 2012, 21st century, America, CIA, foreign policy, government, IC, ideas, intelligence, military, Musings, national security, new york times, organizations, Patterns, Perception, petraeus, politics, rambling, reform, security | 8 comments

• The Antilibrary of the Living Dead

November 30th, 2012 by zen

Posted in #FAIL, Antilibrary Blog, authors, book, fun, historians, historiography, history, ideas, intellectuals, Musings | 8 comments