by zen | Jan 7, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Yale organizational behaviorist Rodrigo Canales has an interesting talk on the Narco-insurgency in Mexico ( which he correctly sees as having been as lethal as Syria’s civil war). While this won’t be...
by zen | Nov 2, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] If the symbol of the 20th century insurgent was the AK-47 and a red banner, his 21st century counterpart may someday be recognized by the suicide belt and the “homemade tank”. Irregular fighters have always...
by zen | Oct 7, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Several weeks ago, Cheryl Rofer wrote an important post analyzing the report “Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action” by Microsoft billionaire, venture capitalist, theoretical mathematician and cookbook author, Dr. Nathan...
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....
