The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Core Point: It is not possible to have centralized cyber-anything if both the human end-users and all of the (multi-media and multi-lingual) data is distributed. This is especially true of security, which is historically several steps behind mission area processes to begin with, and any form of top-down “regulation” that tends to appear after the fact rather than “just in time.”
See Also:
Robert Garigue, “Technical Preface” to Book Three
Robert Garigue, CISO Briefing
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Nuanced:
Journal: Spinney, Boyd, Green, Kuhn on “Can America Be Salvaged?–Public Intelligence Aspects”
Review: Boyd–The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Review (Guest): Science, Strategy and War–The Strategic Theory of John Boyd
Phi Beta Iota: Laos was both an inspiring success story at the operational and tactical levels, and a massive strategic failure in context. On the one hand, a handful of CIA officers and a very modest amount of money kept entire divisions pinned down or occupied or distracted. On the other hand, in the words of Ted Shackley's deputy in Laos, we got a lot of people killed with nothing to show for it in the end. Today this would not be possible to achieve by kinetic means because it would be too easy to first spot with commercial imagery, and then cover all of the air strips with covert hides able to shoot down the light airplanes as they landed. However, today there are other means of empowering indigenous peoples, centered on Open Spectrum, Open Source Software, and Open Source Intelligence–the Open Tri-Fecta: Information Operations (Advanced).
Comment by Contributing Editor Tom Briggs:
See Also:
Review: Cash on Delivery–CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos
Review: Spymaster–My Life in the CIA
Review: The World Is Open–How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education
Review: Ideas and Integrities–A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
2006 INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time
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Augmented version in Reference: World Brain 104 (DNI White Paper)
As first used in a briefing to the National Security Agency conference in Las Vegas, 9 January 2002.
2002 The New Craft of Intelligence–What Should the T Be Doing to the I in IT?
Journal: Army Industrial-Era Network Security + Cyber-Security RECAP (Links to Past Posts)
