NEO-TRIBALISM
John Robb of Global Guerillas has a superb post on “Neo-Tribalism” and his thoughtful analysis is matched by a link to a paper by David Ronfeldt of RAND on al Qaida as a tribe waging ” segmental warfare”. Terrific reads, both of them.
POSTING
Yes, I have not forgotten about ” Reforming State Part II.” – I simply have a couple of projects going this week that are eating time at a ferocious rate.
BIZARRE VISITORS TODAY FROM THE IVORY COAST
196.201.87.# (ISP Cote d’Ivoire). Twice today.
Search Words: ” 2005 emails contacts of cultivation members of agricultural service activities in poland”
and
Search Words:” email contacts of big man in algeria”
Weird. I see you and other people do too.
5GW’s AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SURROGATES
In the earlier 5GW thread I speculated that 5GW would feature ” autonomous surrogates” from human networks to robotic substitutes. Jeremiah at Organic Warfare has a post on the development of the army’s Future Combat Systems that you should check out.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING [ UPDATED]
I haven’t gotten around to one of these posts in a while and as a result, there is a backlog of fine posts and articles worthy of attention.
“Best Practices in Counterinsurgency” in Military Review with a commentary post by Nadezhda at Liberals Against Terrorism. This one is the winner du jour.
“Campaign Design for Winning the War….and the Peace” by Pierre Lessard at Parameters.
“Series: What America Needs to Do to Achieve Its Foreign Policy Goals … Dealing with Terrorism -Part IV.” by William R. Polk at HNN.
” Common Sense and Science” by string theorist Lubos Motl at The Reference Frame and Pure Science vs. Applied Science by Dr. Von at Vonny.
” Sheik of Sheiks ” on networking principles from the Scythians by Dan of tdaxp
“Is Europe Dying? Notes on a Crisis of Civilizational Morale” by George Weigel at HNN
“China’s New Old Civic Mythos” by Matt McIntosh of Conjectures and Refutations.
That’s it.
UPDATE:
Another stellar piece from DNI – “From The Military: Applying 4GW Theory to The Intelligence Community” by Myke Cole.
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