Month: May 2020
Part of writing here at The Cognitive Warrior Project is having many different ideas for topics of conversation and sometimes these ideas collide. Before I even started this project, I had wanted to have an article or section on the ethics of a warfighter. That is
Tuesday Terror Update: Attack in Corpus Christi, Taliban Reluctant to Break with Al Qaeda and the Generation Jihad Podcast
Things are a little off today, still recovering from the long weekend. My family and I went to the National Cemetery in Wilmington, NC. The children seemed to be genuinely interested in the history and remembrance of our fallen brothers and sisters. It made me proud that
Book Discussion: The Dragons and The Snakes: Part 3 – Chapter 4 and the Importance of Self-awareness
Our book discussion continues on David Kilcullen’s latest book, The Dragons and The Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, today we will discuss chapter 4. If you need to get caught up, Part One of the discussion can be found here and Part Two can be found here. We
France’s Fight in the Sahel, Strategic Risks of Withdrawing Troops from Iraq, Magical Realism and Other Bullets
Whew, it has been a little while since I have put together one of these posts to round up the goings on across the world. Hopefully, I can get another together in a day or two to get you caught up. On a side note, sustained winds can make for some choppy boating in the […]
Tuesday Terror Update: A New Terror Map, Soleimani’s Will and Podcast Discussion
A very busy week for terror updates…we are going to continue providing our review of relevant written articles in our terror update along with the usual podcasts. First, we will cover some of the terror articles over the last week and then we will work through our 3
Book Discussion: The Dragons and the Snakes, Part 2 – Chapter 3
I should have known better than to try to cover two Chapters at a time in a Kilcullen book…grumble. For the second installment of our book discussion on David Kilcullen’s latest book, The Dragons and The Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West we will discuss Chapter
The New Rules of War: A Speaker Series Discussion
The genesis for this entire project was born out of the 2019 Cognitive Raider Symposium almost a year ago. The symposium had several presentations and guest speakers, one of which was Sean McFate. McFate, a foreign policy expert, author and novelist had just written his
Weekly Terror Update: Shiite Militia Attacks, ISIS vs. Al Qaeda and The Drone War
Once again the Tuesday Terror update on Wednesday…I might have to reconsider the name. We are going to do things a little different with our terror update by giving you both reading and listening options. First, we will cover some of the terror articles over the last
Book Discussion: The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, Chapters 1-2.
The intention was to have this out on Friday but due to life type stuff I was just not happy with the article that I wrote so I didn’t publish. Mother’s Day and other activities kept me away from finishing it but I think we are all better for the delay. The hardest thing
Micro-dosing Lithium, Urban Combat, AI, Boko Haram and Other Bullets
Just sitting down to this a little later than normal today. I will be working on some backside stuff on the website over the next couple days so posting may be a little lighter than I would like but I also rediscovered a couple websites that in this craziness I had