Tom Engelhardt: The Intelligence Bureaucracy That Ate Our World
Berto Jongman: Various National Security Contributions
Articles & Chapters
Berto Jongman: Various National Security Online Posts
Articles & Chapters, Government, Law Enforcement, MilitaryBerto Jongman: Various National Security Readings
01 Poverty, 07 Other Atrocities, Articles & Chapters, IO Deeds of WarMini-Me: From JFK to 9/11 Spotlight Shines on the CIA
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, Articles & Chapters, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Government
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Launching the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia1
Bush’s Terror War and the Fixing of Intelligence
On September 11, 2001, within hours of the murderous 9/11 attacks, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney had committed America to what they later called the “War on Terror.” It should more properly, I believe, be called the “Terror War,” one in which terror has been directed repeatedly against civilians by all participants, both states and non-state actors. It should also be seen as part of a larger, indeed global, process in which terror has been used against civilians in interrelated campaigns by all major powers, including China in Xinjiang and Russia in Chechnya, as well as the United States.2 Terror war in its global context should perhaps be seen as the latest stage of the age-long secular spread of transurban civilization into areas of mostly rural resistance — areas where conventional forms of warfare, for either geographic or cultural reasons, prove inconclusive.
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In 2011 an important book by Kevin Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, demonstrated conclusively that the withholding was purposive, and sustained over a period of eighteen months.8 This interference and manipulation became particularly blatant and controversial in the days before 9/11; it led one FBI agent, Steve Bongardt, to predict accurately on August 29, less than two weeks before 9/11, that “someday someone will die.”9
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Reference: Flooding of the USA Coasts — Where, When?
03 Environmental Degradation, Articles & Chapters, Earth Intelligence, IO Impotency
2012 Rising Sea Levels Seen as Threat to Coastal U.S. (New York Times, 13 March 2012)
About 3.7 million Americans live within a few feet of high tide and risk being hit by more frequent coastal flooding in coming decades because of the sea level rise caused by global warming, according to new research.
By far the most vulnerable state is Florida, the new analysis found, with roughly half of the nation’s at-risk population living near the coast on the porous, low-lying limestone shelf that constitutes much of that state. But Louisiana, California, New York and New Jersey are also particularly vulnerable, researchers found, and virtually the entire American coastline is at some degree of risk.
2011 Rising Seas Will Affect Major US Coastal Cities by 2100, New Research Finds
2007 Nation Under Siege: Sea Level Rise at Our Doorstep [2030 Impact Study Best Use of Google in Color to Depict 1 Meter, 3 Meter, and 5 Meter Rise in Sea Level]
2003 (est) Does Sea Level Rise Matter to Transportation Along the Atlantic Coast?
2000 Maps of Lands Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise Modeled [Best for close-up vulnerability maps]
1989 The Effects of Sea Leavel Rise on U.S. Coastal Wetlands
Phi Beta Iota: There are multiple bottom lines on this continuing saga.
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Reference: Bibliography on The Craft of Intelligence
Articles & ChaptersBibliography for New Craft of Intelligence
With a 5,000 word limit for each author contributing to the new Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies (2013), the bibliography, at 2,000 words, cannot be included. It is posted here for general access. This bibliography does not address the many books on intelligence that have been reviewed, all of which contain relevant information about the craft of intelligence. Below is a consolidated list of most but not all books on the larger topic of intelligence as reviewed by Robert David Steele.
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Intelligence (Most)
At the more strategic levels, books contributing to an understanding of how the new craft of intelligence must meet the needs for decision-support by all stakeholders at all levels through access to all information in all languages all the time, see the links below and the central column within Phi Beta Iota and/or the Index.
