Archive for the 'ideas'

• On Afghanistan and Strategy

August 14th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, 9/11, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, COIN, counterinsurgency, dilegge, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, geopolitics, government, ideas, insurgency, islamic world, islamist, kilcullen, military, national security, pakistan, small wars journal, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, Uncategorized, war | 20 comments

• Censoring the Voice of America

August 7th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, connectivity, democracy, diplomacy, foreign policy, free speech, freedom, government, ideas, intellectuals, IO, legal, logic, mountainrunner, national security, open-source, organizations, Perception, politics, public diplomacy | 7 comments

• On COIN and an Anti-COIN Counterrevolution?

August 7th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, chet richards, COIN, counterinsurgency, foreign policy, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, islamic world, military, national security, non-state actors, politics, state building, state failure, strategy, terrorism, theory, tribes, war | 13 comments

• Gunnar Peterson interviews Thomas P.M. Barnett

July 31st, 2009 by zen

Posted in 21st century, analytic, authors, barnett, economics, foreign policy, ideas, intellectuals, national security, peterson, PNM, strategy, theory | 1 comment

• The First Genocide?

July 23rd, 2009 by zen

Posted in Archaeology, culture, Evolution, ideas, Prehistoric, psychology, science, social science, sociobiology, theory, war | 23 comments