The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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ROBERT STEELE: Dr. Walter Dorn is a member of the new panel which virtually assures their success. Below are three graphics I submitted for consideration.
PPT (3 Slides): Peacekeeping Technologies Survey Concept
Updated Central African Republic Maps
The Central African Republic’s troubles were obvious to foreign policy watchers a year ago and now conflict has boiled over into outright ethnic cleansing. As a former French colony the best sources on this area are still in French and as a resource poor, land locked area there simply wasn’t much available in February of last year. Now that things have gotten really bad some new maps have emerged.
I would normally provide some sort of unifying commentary for a collection of maps. All I have to offer today is that someone commented on the lack of quality maps for the Central African Republic, and I decided to go digging.
Phi Beta Iota: Very interesting — and what some of us have been asking for since 1988. A few small obstacles, such as over 2,500 compartments that do not share, over 80 different databases that still cannot be accessed simultaneously, and the rather frightening reality that annual collection of “everything” is a mega-petabyte endeavor that our existing processing systems — and all existing cloud systems — simply cannot handle. Still and all, a very important slide with a good intention.
Phi Beta Iota: When you can achieve persistent surveillance AND you have the analytic software AND you have analysts trained to think in new ways THEN you get some really remarkable TACTICAL break-throughs. This is not the panacea some are claiming; it does nothing for strategic, policy, acquisition, or theater operations analytics. What is most interesting about this is that it can, when managed properly and when the theater commander is mandating collaboration (rarely the case), become the de facto all source fusion collection manager. This is also — again at the tactical level — a very positive development when you are sending teams into places that the NRO, NSA, NGA, CIA and others have been ignoring since WWII — within 30 days you can have extraordinary baselines that are simply not achievable with national systems.
Updated EE21 graphic for Robert David Steele, “Peace from Above: Envisioning the Future of UN Air Power,” in Walter Dorn (ed.), Airpower in UN Operations: Wings for Peace (Ashgate, 2014)
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