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Graphic: OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act)

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Citizen-Centered, Innovation, Processing, Strategy-Holistic Coherence

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See Also:

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

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Reference: Remembering Laos and the Hmong

About the Idea, Blog Wisdom, Citizen-Centered
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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).

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Comment by Contributing Editor Tom Briggs:

I've never tried to work up the numbers, but I would be very surprised to learn that the ratio of Hmong soldiers to lowland Lao/other mountain tribe soldiers was greater than 50/50.
Having been a Marine, I'm sure you know the old saying that every Marine squad goes into combat with its own photographer.  Merely jealousy, I'm sure, for all the favorable publicity the Marines have had over the years, but not unlike all the favorable publicity the Marines have had (not that they don't deserve it) the Hmong have been the beneficiaries of a similar favorable publicity to the exclusion of the part the lowland Lao and all the other tribal peoples played in the “Secret War.”

See Also:

Review: Cash on Delivery–CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos

Review: Spymaster–My Life in the CIA

Review: Blond Ghost

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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Graphic: Open Everything

About the Idea, Advanced Cyber/IO, Africa, Analysis, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Citizen-Centered, Collection, Earth Orientation, Geospatial, History, ICT-IT, Innovation, Languages-Translation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Political, Processing, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats, Tribes

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See Also:

2007 Open Everything: We Won, Let’s Self-Govern

2010 M4IS2 Briefing for South America — 2010 M4IS2 Presentacion por Sur America (ANEPE Chile)