by zen | Jun 17, 2013 | Monitor
Alexander The Great by Robin Lane Fox Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA by Randall Woods The first, was one of the works cited by Paul Cartledge in his own biography of Alexander the Great. Fox is an eminent...
by zen | Jun 12, 2013 | Monitor
The recent post on Is 4GW Dead? stirred a great deal of interest, so I would like to extend the discussion on a point that that is critical not only for those who have responsibility for conducting military campaigns, but for statecraft and policy as well. One...
by zen | May 28, 2013 | Monitor
4GW theory has always attracted overenthusiasts and raging haters ever since the concept emerged way back in 1989, so debates about the merit of 4GW are nothing new; in fact, the arguments became so routine that they had largely gone sterile years ago. After T.X....
by zen | May 10, 2013 | Monitor
Adam Elkus has a lengthy and meaty post at Abu Muqawama, inspired by General Mattis, one that you should really read in full: The Mattis Book Club ….But while gaining an understanding of the nature of war is useful, there are a lot of things it won’t do....
by zen | Apr 19, 2013 | Monitor
Another installment of Octavian Manea’s excellent COIN interview series at SWJ. This one focuses on social science and varieties of insurgency: Breaking Down “Hearts and Minds”: The Power of Individual Causal Mechanisms in an Insurgency ….OM: In your...
