by zen | Jan 22, 2014 | Monitor
Just a quick link, but check out the SWJ interview that Octavian Manea has done with former DoD policy planning deputy Dr. Thomas G. Mahnken: Lessons From Previous Competitive Strategies SWJ: A key concept that Andrew Marshall and ONA developed and shaped is that of...
by zen | Nov 26, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea, the interviewer par excellence of Small Wars Journal, steps up with an interview with COIN guru and former USG senior adviser Dr. David Kilcullen: Future of Warfare in a Post-COIN Conflict Climate...
by zen | Oct 10, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski AKA “zen”] Octavian Manea has two excellent interviews up at SWJ; for those interested in COIN theory and history, these are must-reads: Learning From Today’s Crisis of Counterinsurgency SWJ: What is the relevance of post-9/11...
by zen | Sep 7, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea and SWJ are on something of a roll lately. Colonel T.X. Hammes (ret.) PhD is the respected author of the excellent The Sling and the Stone. If you have never read it, you should. The Fallacies of Big...
by zen | Sep 2, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea has had an excellent series of COIN interviews at SWJ and this is one of the more important ones: Reflections on the “Counterinsurgency Decade”: Small Wars Journal Interview with General David H....
