Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1470 – Public Intelligence Blog

‘No Boots on the Ground’ Is a Mantra, Not a Strategy

By Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, U.S. Army retired and
Lt. Gen. James M. Dubik, U.S. Army retired

Army Magazine, 15 August 2014

No political or military leader responsible for the lives of citizens who become soldiers ever wants to give the order to put American service members at risk. That desire is even more present after more than a decade of waging and fighting war. The decision to employ American forces should be based upon U.S. interests and an objective assessment of what kinds of forces are needed to achieve the outcome the nation’s interests require, not merely what its leaders desire. The U.S. sustains its military forces to defend itself and its interests. These forces exist to provide options for political leaders. The current “no boots on the ground” mantra is a policy, not a strategy; moreover, it is problematic from five important perspectives: strategically, operationally, institutionally, historically and morally.

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: No Boots on the Ground is a Mantra Not a Strategy Plus Steele to Hagel”

2014/08/202014/08/19

Stephen E. Arnold: Heavens — Big Data is HARD WORK!

IO Impotency

Big Data: Oh, Oh, This Revolution Requires Grunt Work

I read “For Big-Data Scientists, ‘Janitor Work’ Is Key Hurdle to Insights.” The write up from the newspaper that does not yet have hot links to the New York Times’ store, has revealed that Big Data involves “janitor work.”

Interesting. I thought that Big Data was a silver bullet, a magic jinni, a miracle, etc. The write up reports that “far too much handcrafted work — what data scientists call “data wrangling,” “data munging” and “data janitor work” — is still required.”

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Heavens — Big Data is HARD WORK!”

2014/08/202014/08/19

SchwartzReport: Collective Energy Purchasing

05 Energy

Here is some excellent news about local action on the energy front. As you are reading this think about what might be done in your community.

The Power of Collective Energy Purchasing
JOHN FARRELL – Clean Technica

‘We can’t do it as an individual, But four hundred communities aggregating and asking for local wind power and solar power – that’s really powerful.”

Oak Park, IL, is one of hundreds of Illinois towns using their authority to buy electricity in bulk on behalf of its residential and small business customers. So far, most communities have used the policy – known as community choice aggregation – to negotiate for less expensive electricity compared to the default electric utility, Commonwealth Edison. Many have also purchased renewable energy credits with their power, but it’s not clear if the practice is greening or green-washing the power supply.

2014/08/192014/08/18

JZ Liszkiewicz: 1995 Card Game on Illuminati Anticipated 9/11, Fukushima, and More…

Cultural Intelligence

Jason "JZ" Liszkiewicz — Jason “JZ” Liszkiewicz

Steve Jackson Games’ Illuminati Conspiracy Cards Predicted 9/11, Fukushima, More…

Is Steve Jackson a sort of doomsday visionary? Check out his 1995 card game Illuminati: The Game of Conspiracy. h/t Reptoid posting to reddit’s /r/conspiracy, “Illuminati Cards (1995) Predicted 9/11, Fukushima, NSA Edward Snowden and more!“

2014/08/192014/08/18

Bojan Radej: Complex Systems Science With Wicked Humans, Smart Animals, and Communicating Plants

Advanced Cyber/IO

I am sending you pretty inspirational paper, “Living Roadmap for Complex Systems Science: The French roadmap for complex systems: March 2008, The Complex System Society«. It is written in scientific language. I am sometimes thinking about your concepts and try to figure out how to translate them from systemic presentation to complex one. The difference may seem scholastic, but I wish to point out that this first impression is wrong. There is much deeper reason which relates not only to consistency of your concepts with the nature of the problem, but it may also contribute to essential simplification and so make an important step towards possibility for operationalisation. System theory is appropriate tool for dealing with terribly complicated challenges like building an airplane or sending mission to moon. Your challenge is more complex than complicated; complexity involves another type of elements, who are not complicated but wicked, involving human and social (political, cultural) factors. You may wish to surf the web for Cynefin framework (by Snowden) which nicely explains this.

PDF (22 Pages): CSS 2008 (French) Roadmap for Complex Systems

Web Source

2014/08/192014/08/18

Berto Jongman: World War III — Weapons of Mass Monetization Coming Soon — Are ISIS and BRICS Part of the Shell Game?

Civil Society, Commerce, Earth Intelligence, Government, Peace Intelligence

Order Out Of Chaos: The Doctrine That Runs The World

EXTRACT

The end result of World War I was the creation of the League of Nations and the argument that sovereignty leads to disunion and catastrophe. World War II led to the creation of the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund. I believe that a third world war is nearly upon us, one that may involve weapons of monetary destruction more so than weapons of mass destruction. Each supposed disintegration of global unity has eventually led to greater centralization, and this is something the skeptics seem to forget. The progression of crises suggests that the next war will lead to total globalization under the dominance of a minority of elitists posing as “wise men” who only wish to bring peace and harmony to the masses. In the meantime, the skeptics will continue to mindlessly debate in the face of all reason that the whole thing was a fluke, an act of random mathematical chance, leading coincidentally to the one thing the establishment rulers crave: total global totalitarian micromanagement.

Read full article.

2014/08/182014/08/18

Berto Jongman: Saudi Ebola Student Martyrs in USA?

02 Infectious Disease, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, Ethics, Government, Military, Officers Call

Obama Oversees Brazen Paris Convoy Attack Against Saudi Prince

As we had, likewise, reported on after the issuance of last weeks SVR report, of the estimated 111,000 Saudi Arabian students currently in the United States, 8,000 have been identified as being Islamic State (IS) [also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)] terror members, of which nearly 3,000 of them have become “Ebola Martyrs” willing to die in their “mission” of infecting as many Americans as they can before their stated deadline of October.

Phi Beta Iota: We have no direct knowledge. By all accounts available the US intelligence community appears to have helped the US special operations community achieve an extraordinary intervention in the past 24 hours. The FBI has absolutely no clue who's who among all the foreigners inserted into the USA, and least of all among the Saudis and the combination of Israelis and multinational “sayonim” (Jews who blindly support the Zionist state). Note that the posited 8,000 above could easily provide a 1,000 individuals to be voluntarily infected with Ebola or anything else AFTER their arrival in the USA, with the viruses imported via the Saudi diplomatic pouch. However, having lost all faith in the integrity of the US Government in relation to the public interest, we do not discount the possibility that this is a false flag operation intended to justify a fake Ebola crisis to further test the ability of the federal government to restrict travel and shut-down any areas of the country they wish. We pray the Obama Administration understands just how close the USA is to massive armed push-back against the militarization (and potential federalization) of the state and local police. We suspect Obama has no one he can actually trust to tell him the truth.

Police Militarization @ Phi Beta Iota