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I will not replicate all that is at www.oss.net and to a much lesser extent, www.earth-intelligence.net, but do want to recognize a handful of extraordinary individuals by isolating their especially meritorious contributiions to the long-running debate about national intelligence reform and re-invention.

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Reference: We Lacked the Will (on HUMINT)

DoD, Intelligence (government), Methods & Process

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Attached is somewhat dated; you may or may not have seen.  But the basic message almost certainly remains valid.  For LTG Hughes' part, he was certainly part of the problem.  At the time he retired out of DIA, 15 months or so before 9/11, one of the key operational support elements of his in-house HUMINT organization was commanded by an O-6 who was totally unqualified by temperament and background.  This unfortunate situation was the product of an accommodation arrangement with one of the military Services which was short of O-6 command slots for, shall we say, an asshole geek

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LtGen Hughes (2001) “We Lacked the Will”

Phi Beta Iota: We don't have leaders.  We have pandering clerks.  What especially irritates us is how they get all holier than thou after retirement.  There isn't a spine connected to a brain in the whole bunch.  Intelligence is a mess–so is the political process, and the policy process simple does not exist, it has never recovered from Dick Cheney.

HUMAN INTELLIGENCE (HUMINT):  All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (SSI, 2010)

ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (AFCEA, OSS, 2000)

See the rest of this web site for the 750+ people with integrity that got it right the first time.

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Reference: National Drug Threat Assessment 2010

07 Health, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, Government, Law Enforcement, References
U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center

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Related:
+ Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal
+ The Mexico + American Narcosphere (Calling Carlos “Slim” Helu)

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Reference: Spooking Academia, Militarizing Anthropology

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, Articles & Chapters, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Worth A Look

How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses

Silent Coup

By DAVID PRICE

2010 FULL STORY ONLINE

Exposing the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program

By DAVE H. PRICE

2005 FULL STORY ONLINE

2001-2010 David Price on the Militarization of Anthropology, Subversion of Indigenous Peoples (38 Contributions)

WORTH A LOOK!

 

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Reference: Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns

01 Poverty, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Military, References

Link to report

Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns
The Small Arms Survey 2010 reviews a range of issues related to gangs and armed groups, focusing on their use of violence, as well as emerging efforts to prevent and curb the damage they inflict on society. The volume includes studies of prison gangs, girls in gangs, and pro-government groups; it also features case studies from Ecuador and Southern Sudan. Rounding out the book is original research on the global ammunition trade and on options for controlling illicit firearm transfers by air.

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Reference: US DHS–“Securing Cyberspace”

DHS

Full Document Online

Phi Beta Iota:  Tip of the hat to Berto Jongman for this referral.  The report is a classic exemplar of good people doing what they know and what they have been told to do, rather than what they need to do–Dr. Robert Ackoff called this “doing the wrong thing righter.”  It is not possible to secure cyberspace  using the traditional top-down micro-management paradigm.  The only way to secure cyberspace is to make it resilient by steering the private sector toward open everything including most especially open source software.  Learn more at Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE).

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Reference: Panarchy is What We Make of It–Why a World State is Not Inevitable

Advanced Cyber/IO, Articles & Chapters, Cultural Intelligence

ABSTRACT:  Alexander Wendt begins his paper “Why a World State is Inevitable” with the following concise formulation of his intent: “In this article I propose a teleological theory of the ‘logic of anarchy' which suggests that a world state is inevitable …” (Wndt, 2003).  I offer the following equally concise opposition: In this article I propose a teleonomic theory of the ‘logic of panarchy' which suggests that a world state is not inevitable.  I suggest that the stable “state” for this teleonomic process is a global “complex adaptive system,” or governance network, in which the ‘logic of anarchy' gives way to the ‘logic of panarchy.”  It is essential to note that Wednt and I agree on far more than we disagree, but the pointson which we disagree are fundamental.

Core Quote:  “In a teleonomy, the focus is on the adaptive rules, i.e. the processes by which the system explores and exploits new possibilities.  Because the system's identity is enacted through a program and not by virtue of an outcome, lourality, diversity, democracy, abnd the navigation of competing rules and norms take on a new urgency.  That urgency is enshrined in the voluntary and “freely given” intentionality that is possible only in panarchy.”

29 Page PDF

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Reference: Joe Nye on Cyber-Power

Computer/online security, Cyberscams, malware, spam, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), White Papers
 
 

Download PDF 1.1MB 30 pages

Nye, Joseph S. “Cyber Power.” Paper (30 Pages)

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School,

May 2010

Power depends upon context, and the rapid growth of cyber space is an important new context in world politics. The low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means that smaller actors have more capacity to exercise hard and soft power in cyberspace than in many more traditional domains of world politics. Changes in information has always had an important impact on power, but the cyber domain is both a new and a volatile manmade environment. The characteristics of cyberspace reduce some of the power differentials among actors, and thus provide a good example of the diffusion of power that typifies global politics in this century. The largest powers are unlikely to be able to dominate this domain as much as they have others like sea or air. But cyberspace also illustrates the point that diffusion of power does not mean equality of power or the replacement of governments as the most powerful actors in world politics.

DOWNLOAD PDF (30 pages, 1.1 MB) from Harvard Site

Phi Beta Iota:  The author served as deputy director of the National Intelligence Council and as an Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.  He coined the term “soft power” and is arguably the most astute and coherent observer and analyst of traditional relations among nations now serving in the upper ranks of the elite that pupport to be serving the public interest.

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