I just finished presenting a paper at the Stability Operations and State Building conference at APSU. The paper was focused on State Building as a form of communications and about a third of it centered on the concept of “narratives”. I was fascinated by how the concept has been presented in FM 3-24 [...]
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- Afghanistanica - “An exploration of Afghanistan from a safe distance”
- Complex Terrain Lab - Excellent discussions of complexity and warfare
- Dead Voles - Carl Dyke’s blog on all sorts of Anthropology issues. Good read…
- Disparate - A bilingual blog on disparate subjects. Un blogue disparate bilingue. - By Alexandre Enkerli - ethnographer, blogger and beer meister
- DIST 3901, 2008
- Elected Swineherd - Hard to describe, great to read.
- Ghost of a flea - Witty, charming, irreverant and sometimes downright wacky.
- Ghosts of Alexander - An excellent blog dealing with Afghanistan
- Go Big Always - Irreverant look at social networking and software.
- Historicus - History, insurgency, counter-insurgency, academia and intelligent post! What more could you want?
- Information Dissemination - Mainly about US naval issues, but always some good observations on networks
- Intermap - The International Media Argument Project - excellent and highly thoughtful posts on communications.
- Jim Cassidy - Jim is an old friend of mine and one of the top people I know in programming.
- Les Explorers - A rather quirky, Tourism 2.0 site that is really neat
- Mountain Runner - A top notch blog by Matt Armstrong on Public Communications and other topics
- Open Anthropology - Excellent Anthropology, even if I disagree with a lot of the positions.
- Savage Minds - One of the best Anthropology blogs and one of the few places where there is an intelligent discussion of the Human Terrain System (amongst other things).
- Selil Blog - Run by Sam and Sydney Liles, two of the top computer science people around.
- Small Wars Council (SWC) - What can I say? This is the place described by many as the “graduate seminar” in counter-insurgency.
- SWJ blog - Possibly the best COIN blog in the world.
- The Turner Report - Never thought I would link through to a Liberal ;) - then again, Garth has a good record of making everyone mad at him since he puts Canada ahead of Party (whichever one he may be in at the moment).
- This blog sits at the intersection of anhropology and economics - (hat tip to Savage Minds) Great, applied Anthropology.
- Tourism Internet Marketing - What can I say? Jens is a character :)
- William Craig’s Magazine - The musings of my old friend Wm. Craig - I especially enjoy his Slippery Slope stories
- Zenpundit - An excellent blog that looks at the intersection of history, cognition, theory and the military etc.