RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n
A good time to push the new, tie up loose ends and entertain a few tangents. No theme today.<\/p>\n
Top billing far and away goes to the thread “Kilcullen — New Theories for a New Way of War <\/a>” at The Small Wars Council<\/a><\/strong>, begun by DNI’s<\/strong><\/a> Fabius Maximus<\/strong>. The high quality of the discussion and the no-holds barred debate makes this one a definite ” must read” for anyone interested in COIN, 4GW, military strategy, defense policy or Iraq. It is long, so pour yourself a cup of coffee ( or something stronger) and enjoy.<\/p>\n Dan of tdaxp<\/a><\/strong> completes his series on The Wary Guerilla<\/strong><\/em><\/a> that I first featured here<\/a>. The series in its entirety:<\/p>\n 1. Abstract<\/a> 2. Terrorism<\/a> 3. Predictions<\/a> 4. An Experiment<\/a> 5. Results<\/a> 6. Absolute Guerrilla<\/a> Chris Heffinger<\/strong> – “The Ideological Voices of the Jihadi Movement<\/a>” at Jamestown Foundation<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Nathan Freier<\/strong> – ” Primacy without a Plan?<\/a> ” in PARAMETERS<\/a><\/em><\/strong> .<\/p>\n Collounsbury<\/a><\/strong> – “Islamic MBA<\/a>“<\/p>\n Wiggins<\/strong> at Opposed System Design<\/strong> <\/a>-“Knowing the Enemy Part III: Sources of Radicalization<\/a>” ( Part II<\/a>. and Part I.<\/a> here).<\/p>\n Wretchard<\/strong> at The Belmont Club<\/a><\/strong> -” The Blogosphere at War<\/a>“<\/p>\n Colonel W. Patrick Lang<\/a><\/strong> – “A Concert of the Greater Middle East<\/a>” at The National Interest<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n “Why the U.S. Should Spring for a New Particle Accelerator<\/a>” at SEED<\/a><\/strong> .<\/p>\n “2006 a Year of Invention<\/a>” in New Scientist.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n That’s it !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RECOMMENDED READING A good time to push the new, tie up loose ends and entertain a few tangents. No theme today. Top billing far and away goes to the thread “Kilcullen — New Theories for a New Way of War ” at The Small Wars Council, begun by DNI’s Fabius Maximus. The high quality of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
7. Those Who Cause Less Pain<\/a> 8. Future Research<\/a> 9. Political Implications<\/a> 10. Bibliography<\/a><\/p>\n