Archive for April, 2010

• Adaptive Thinking, Resilient Behavior

April 20th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 4GW, 5GW, America, Blogroll, cognition, complexity, david ronfeldt, defense, education, Epistemology, freedom, freeplay, futurism, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, leadership, liberty, metacognition, national security, philosophy, psychology, resilience, risk, scenario, security, society, teaching, theory, uncertainty, vertical thinking | 5 comments

• More Mackinlay – On Why the USG Doesn’t “Get” AQ as a “Global Insurgency”

April 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, army, book, britain, COIN, connectivity, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, defense, DIME, Epistemology, extremists, foreign policy, government, hierarchy, history, IC, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, john nagl, kilcullen, military, military reform, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, security, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, tribes, virtual states, war, warriors, web 2.0 | 9 comments

• Metaphors and Analogies: A Two-Edged Sword

April 15th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, America, analogy, analytic, attention, brain, cognition, complexity, creativity, disinformation, Epistemology, framing, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, intellectuals, IO, meme, metacognition, myth, national security, Perception, politics, priming, propaganda, psychology, social science, society, synthesis, teaching, theory | 13 comments

• Not Feeling It….

April 14th, 2010 by zen

Posted in blogging, personal | 5 comments

• Google as a Dishonest Broker?

April 13th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, analytic, computers, culture, democracy, disinformation, framing, free speech, freedom, government, innovation, IO, legitimacy, liberty, media, national security, non-state actors, obama, organizations, politics, radical transparency, search engine, society, soft power, tech, theory, web 2.0 | 7 comments