US military tactics falling behind those of adversaries, Pentagon official warns
- Robert Work: ‘Our technological superiority is slipping. We see it every day’
- Deputy defense secretary wants to bring US military into ‘post-insurgency era’
US military tactics falling behind those of adversaries, Pentagon official warns
PDF (138 Pages): JSOU Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks
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Is Flawed Terrorism Research Driving Flawed Counterterrorism Policies?
More than thirteen years after the U.S. intelligence community named the prevention of terrorism its number one goal, it seems to have little understanding of what drives terrorism, or how to counter it. And, if the recently increasing criticism is correct, the government’s investment in academic terrorism research isn’t helping. It may be because the government is continuing to fund research supporting discredited theories of terrorist radicalization, rather than objective empirical analyses.
Article (link only) is pretty good, but see the even better acid reply (in full below the fold) from a reader.
Google: Three Elephants Preparing to Fight Among Themselves
I love the Google. I found two unrelated articles interesting for one simple reason: Google is getting ready for its own version of Wrestlemania. Read more.
Phi Beta Iota: Google, like Microsoft and Standard Oil, needs to die. It is only corruption that keep subsidies for fossil fuel and tolerance for the information-era equivalents of fossil fuel, alive.
CIA at 50, Lost in the ‘Politicization’ Swamp
From the Archive: Almost 20 years ago – even before the Iraq WMD fiasco – as the CIA was celebrating its half-century anniversary, the impact of a Reagan-era “reorganization” was being felt in the “politicization” of intelligence, Robert Parry wrote in 1997. Now, a new reorganization could make matters worse.
By Robert Parry (Originally published in 1997)
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