The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Col Dr. Max Manwaring defined the first six generations of warfare, Robert Steele converted those to information operaitons (IO) eras, and added the 7th era, which is easiy to achieve with leadership integrity, virtually impossible to achieve as long as any government persists in retaining legacy systems that are stovepipes within stovepipes surrounded by security and legal and personality strait-jackets from earlier eras and totally ignorant of modern possibilities.
This is the original implementation vision graphic for the Earth Intelligence Network (EIN), such that needs at the individual and household level can be “called in” via Rapid SMS with geospatial coordinates, then clustered, then acted upon by individual or combinations of individual or organizational donors.
We can do this today, all we lack is leadership.
This is a very straight-forward matrix that is not in use by any intelligence community we know of, and that would be incomprehensive to any policy maker for the simple reason that they do not think in holistic terms–they are all stove-piped by issue and blind-folded by time and place.
Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor of Singapore, has it right: the family is the core foundation for national and cultural power over time, and the USA has trashed the family with virtually every single policy at every level in the past fifty years.
Energy and Immigration bracket the family, and we use them to illustrate how other policies impact. Bad energy policy and bad immigration policy destroys neighborhoods, jobs, and local tax bases that fund education. It is all connected and no one in Washington is paying attention to the destruction of the family.
The U.S. Intelligence Community and the U.S. policy-aquisition-operations communities do not think in these holistic terms. That is a strategic error of huge proportions.
Most policy makers are very poorly read and life a life, to quote Madeline Albright, as “gerbils on a wheel.” The ignorance, bias, and helplessness of good people in a bad system cannot be exaggerated. The U.S. Government specifically is not trained, equipped, or organized to “do” intelligence (decision-support) across all topics leveraging all information in all languages all the time.
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) no longer exists as a serious craft in the USA. The Clandestine Service, a few exceptions not-with-standing relies almost completely on hand-outs from foreign liaison services who know the limits of American historical and cultural savoire faire, and the depth of American naivete. In the Department of Defense (DoD) the current clandestine training has been described as “push-ups done silently.” Across the government, the human brain and the inate value of the human being is at an all-time low and there appears to be no one of any leadership standing actually willing to demand that we get HUMINT right.
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