Archive for November, 2012

• Cross-grain thinking, 3: ASP’s Report on Climate Security

November 21st, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in bateson, britain, Buddhist, Charles Cameron, global warming, intelligence, Islam, music, national security, nature, poetry, rethinking thinking, saudi arabia, science, scriptures, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Cross-grain thinking, 3: ASP’s Report on Climate Security

• The Sufism of Zen

November 20th, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in myth, story, sufi, Uncategorized, Zen | 1 comment

• An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 — a review-lite and a few questions

November 20th, 2012 by J.ScottShipman

Posted in 20th century, Adaptability, change, Clausewitzian, defense, history, J. Scott Shipman, military history, military professionalism, ronald reagan, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, Uncategorized, veterans, warriors, wwii | 32 comments

• Describing Ahmed al-Jabari, with a side of traffic patterns

November 20th, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in complex systems, complexity, graphical thinking, Hamas, IDF, Israel, Mahdist, media, pattern language, rethinking thinking, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Describing Ahmed al-Jabari, with a side of traffic patterns

• Strategy, Power and Diffusion

November 19th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 4GW, Afghanistan, America, analytic, asymmetric, china, complex systems, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, DIME, economics, history, ideas, insurgency, logic, military, military history, national security, non-state actors, physics, politics, russia, state building, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Tactics, Taliban, theory, van creveld, war, warriors, william lind, wwii | 22 comments