The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hamilton Bean, “Communication and Intelligence: Allies or Enemies?,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Vol 22 No 2 March 2009 pp 360-365
MajGen Charlie Dunlap, USAF, at the time deputy lawyer boss for the USAF, has been an asymmetric thinker and iconoclast for a long time–the Air Force is more tolerant of such minds that the other services.
The Army Strategy Conference is generally the best and most serious show in town when it comes to thinking about its topic–strategy. In 1998 the conference nailed the future, but the Services remained beholden to their budget share wars and contractor-driven bells and whistles for profit strategies–they betrayed the public interest. In 2008 the conference again nailed it, and here is the draft article in both document form (click on the image) . The military talks about “we can't do it all” but the military leadership is still not serious about enabling inter-agency planning, programming, budgeting, and campaigning.
At the very bottom, following the full-text online, Frog left is the full detailed notes from this conference, and Frog right is the summary article of the 1998 conference.
Phi Beta Iota: New version. Platitudes without substance. Completely unfamiliar with what the ten high-level threats to humanity actually are, and completely inadequate with respect to actually producing strategic, operational, tactical, or technical intelligence. DIA's contribution to defense acquisition, whole of government harmonization for stabilization & reconstruction, and on and on and on is ZERO. Until DIA gets leadership with integrity, it will continue to be, as one author put it, “Still Broken,” or in the long-standing DIA motto: Kiss Up, Kick Down, Krap Always.
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This is a good plan, a model for others to follow, as far as it goes. It is an Industrial-Era plan that focuses on the man-made and ignores the “Sea State” that should be our larger concern. Noteworthy is the emphasis on information-sharing andd sense-making. Also noteworthy is the specific attention to international and domestic outreach.
That having been said, this is a 50% plan. The U.S. Navy needs to dig deep, find its soul, and expand the plan to monitor, understand, and preserve Mother Sea in partnership with all those listed in the Concept of Operations for the Maritime Intelligence Center promulgated on 19 August 2009. And for vision, 450-Ship Navy Peace from the Sea.
