Category: References

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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Robert Steele: Snap-Shot on Gold & Off-Ledger Accounts

01 Poverty, 02 China, 03 Economy, 04 Indonesia, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics, Federal Reserve, Government, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Robert David Steele
Robert David Steele

It never occurred to me that accidentally becoming the top Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, partially associated with my being the lead for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for 25 years across 66+ countries, would be vastly more important than everything I ever learned across multiple graduate degrees, as a former spy, and as co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA).

As I encounter disbelief about Neil Keenan and his role as the main juncture between the Dragon Society and the West as we move toward a global economic re-set, I have to remind myself that 80% of the public still thinks JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald; J. Edgar Hoover was a moral man; the Israelis attacked the USS Liberty by accident, and 9/11 was carried out by a bunch of “rag heads” armed with box cutters.

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Steven Aftergood: Defense Reform When, How?

10 Security, Congressional Research Service, Ethics, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

DEFENSE REFORM: YES, BUT HOW?

There is widespread dissatisfaction with the organization and performance of the Department of Defense, a new Congressional Research Service report says, but no consensus on what to do about it. Driving the current debate, CRS says, are questions such as:

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Jan H. Kalvik: Introducing Robert David Steele to the Norwegian Defence & Intelligence Communities

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Information Operations (IO), Key Players, Liberation Technology, NATO Civ-Mil Ctr, Officers Call, Policies, Threats, United Nations & NGOs
Jan Helge Kalvik
Jan Helge Kalvik

Defence and intelligence Norway

Introducing Robert David Steele

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We are happy to introduce Robert David Steele as a new contributor to Defence and Intelligence.

Original post in Norway — safety copy below the fold.

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Marcus Aurelius: National Commission on Future of the Army — an Immaculate Conception

Military, Sources
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Hot off the press, just released today, invite your attention to report of the statutorily-mandated National Commission on the Future of the Army at following link:

Click for Report
Click for Report

Have not fully read but expect a couple of things:

* It will likely be contentious, both for what it says and does not say and for various factions' assessments of its quality.

* It will generate some degree of workload for the Army Staff as the Chief of Staff and the Secretary decide what they want to do with/about it and how.

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OpenDemocracy: Robert Steele, American Intelligence and National Defense 2.0

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, DoD, Ethics, Government, Innovation, Officers Call, Strategy

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Robert David Steele 10 November 2015

An Open Source (Technologies) Agency, far removed from the secret intelligence world, would radically reduce wars and illegal immigration, increase trade and shared prosperity, and convert the USA into a “Smart Nation”.

On 06/17/11, I wrote the first installment of National intelligence and national defense, published at the Campaign for Liberty, suggesting that we could both cut the secret intelligence budget by three quarters, and radically increase the amount of open source decision-support (as opposed to secret mass surveillance).

Of course nothing happened, but now, to my enormous delight, I am hearing that there is a very tentative discussion in some of the darkest corners of the US government of a proposal to terminate three of the secret agencies that reside within the Department of Defense (DoD) – the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the National Geospatial Agency (NGA). This should happen, if not in the closing year of the Obama Administration, then in 2017 under the first Independent president and a diversified Congress in which Independents, Greens, and Libertarians and others (e.g. Constitution, Working Families) win the 20-30 seats being vacated.

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Steven Aftergood: CRS on Police Use of Force

Congressional Research Service, Law Enforcement
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

What are the constitutional limits on police use of force? What remedies are available when those limits are exceeded? And in light of recent episodes of police violence, how might the limits and the remedies be modified? Those questions are addressed in a new report from the Congressional Research Service.

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