Entries tagged with: Global Guerillas

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F in Citizenship

Foreign Policy magazine has come out with its annual listing of "Failed States. Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the media attention to this list has focused on Iraq being #2 on the list, behind Sudan. Of greater interest to me,...

Posted on June 19, 2007 5:17 PM

Second RU Sirius Show Now Up

The second podcast emerging from the conversation session with RU Sirius last week is now available. RU Sirius Show #109 (Weekend Edition): Why Big War is Becoming Obsolete: Jamais Cascio of WorldChanging fame leads us in a discussion about being...

Posted on May 18, 2007 8:21 AM

Open Source with a Bullet: John Robb's Brave New War

The U.S. is Microsoft. Al Qaeda is Linux. That, at least, is the grossly-oversimplified version of John Robb's new book, Brave New War. Such a parallel has nothing to do with politics, but with position. The United States, and other...

Posted on May 13, 2007 1:29 PM

The Lost Hegemon (pt 2): The End of Conventional War

(Previously: The Lost Hegemon (pt 1) and A Post-Hegemonic Future) Few would dispute that the American military is, far and away, the most powerful conventional armed force on the planet, even as depleted as it is by the Iraq war....

Posted on May 2, 2007 9:33 PM

The Lost Hegemon (pt 1)

Rolling Stone assembled a round-table discussion with Richard Clarke, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bob Graham, Juan Cole and others (from the military, diplomatic and intelligence services) about three scenarios for the end of the US involvement in the Iraq conflict (note I...

Posted on March 19, 2007 1:29 PM

Must-Know Concepts for the 21st Century

My colleague at IEET, George Dvorsky, posted a list of concept about the future that he sees as vital for people who consider themselves to be intelligent to know and understand. His goal is admirable: too much of what passes...

Posted on December 31, 2006 1:14 PM

Future of the Future

The next five days will see a potentially interesting -- at least to me -- intersection of a variety of important dynamics I've been following closely. • Global guerillas, or the reaction to them. What should be an hour wait...

Posted on August 22, 2006 11:16 PM

Less Than Meets The Eye

I'm getting on a plane in a few days, and I'm not relishing the thought of the wait in the airport beforehand. I normally allow about 90 minutes; this week, I'm going to try to arrive a good three hours...

Posted on August 16, 2006 4:06 PM

UK Terror Plot

The unfolding news about the aircraft bombing plans in the UK hits me pretty hard. I travel to London once a year or so, and two of my closest friends (and their families) live in or around the city. Given...

Posted on August 10, 2006 5:05 PM

Tuesday Topsight, July 11, 2006

I had the somewhat surreal experience last night of participating in a focus group on the California energy industry. My experience was odd because, about a quarter of the way through, the moderator was called out by the faceless folks...

Posted on July 11, 2006 1:35 PM

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