Marc | January 25, 2010
My friend and fellow SWC denizen Mark Safranski (aka Zenpundit) has an excellent post today entitled The post-COIN Era is Here. It is, IMHO, an excellent post on the (supposed) “COINdinista vs. Big War” debate; a “debate” that exists more in the minds of the policy crowd that the actual debaters. Mark makes some really [...]
Marc | May 1, 2009
A couple of friends / colleagues are in the process of putting together an historical sourcebook on “terrorism” which, IMO, will be very useful. As a part of this process, I just got a copy of their draft introduction which has started me thinking that it is time to formalize some of my current thinking [...]
Marc | January 13, 2009
In the past couple of posts, I have been jotting notes, as it were, about how people view ways in which we, as a species, simulate our perceptions of objective reality and then pass on our understandings of how best to operate within these perceptions. All well and good but, in an age when we [...]
Marc | January 10, 2009
I wanted to post a quick follow-up to the example I used in my last post regarding conceptualizations of space and time. In it, I noted that “For the irhabi, the Area of Operations (AO) is glocal while for much of the Western military the AO is local (i.e. geographically limited)”, an observation I stand [...]
Marc | August 13, 2008
[Note: I am in the process of putting together a journal article on asymmetric warfare and I will be using the next few posts to help me think abut it.]
Competition appears to be an inevitable consequence of our natural (read biological) state. Darwin termed this “natural selection”. But, as with most species, we [...]
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