Archive for July, 2011

• Outrage Over News Corp: A Tale of Two Standards

July 18th, 2011 by zen

Posted in analytic, britain, corporations, criminals, government, guardian, media, national security, new york times, Oligarchy, Perception, periodicals, politics | 26 comments

• Now Reading….

July 15th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, authors, book, COIN, counterinsurgency, fiction, futurism, gangs, ideas, insurgency, islamist, Latin America, military, military reform, national security, non-state actors, primary loyalties, reading, scenario, security, society, state failure, Tactics, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, veterans, war, warriors | 4 comments

• Diesel Boats Forever! or ever?

July 14th, 2011 by J.ScottShipman

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, china, europe, J. Scott Shipman, military reform, modularity, navy, nuclear, pacific empire, rambling, strategy, Uncategorized | 15 comments

• Hitting all the Right Notes

July 14th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, 5GW, analytic, COIN, counterintuitive, IC, illegal combatants, insurgency, IO, military, military reform, non-state actors, politics, primary loyalties, strategy, terrorism, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, war | Comments Off on Hitting all the Right Notes

• Carl Prine’s Rebuttal to “Be honest: Who actually read FM 3-24?”

July 13th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, Afghanistan, America, analytic, army, blogosphere, COIN, counterinsurgency, diplomatic history, framing, government, historians, historiography, history, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, islam.insurgency, leadership, military, military history, military reform, national security, organizations, Perception, politics, social science, society, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, theory, USMC, veterans, Vietnam, Vietnam War, war, warriors | 4 comments