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Sorry about this not coming up right off.  It's common name is 450-ship Navy, the piracy was added later.

2008 U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century

TRUE STORY:  OSS did the first Somalia piracy evaluation for CENTCOM J-2P, in 2005.  Years later we were able to ask both Navy Irregular Warfare and US Special Operations Command why they did nothing, and their answer should not have, but did shock us, particularly in being virtually the same answer:

“Not an expensive enough problem.”

We don't make this stuff up.

We love it when searches lead us to good stuff not on our site that we can embrace.  Below is the top hit on the search question, followed by a link to our own four quadrants of knowledge that enriches.

The site actually looks like a come-hither magnet for the Later Day Saints (Mormons).  In any event, what we have clearly established on this web site is that human minds are the one unlimited resource we have; that Open Money is better than the fraud money system we have now; and the The Hidden Wealth of Nations and The Politics of Happiness are core to our future.

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Graphic: The Four Quadrants of Knowledge

Graphic: Four Quadrants J-2 High Cell SMS Low

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Nova Spivak

This is precisely the kind of search we like to see.  It is a shame that most of what comes up on the Internet is baloney from corporations trying to pretend they have ethics.  Here are a couple of selections that we thought worthy of including here.  There is also an entire literature on business ethics, multi-cultural deliberative dialog, and so on.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Contemporary Conflict
Business Executives for National Security, 1 October 2009

Ethical Security: The Private Sector in Peace and Stability Operations
ISS Monograph Series No 139, November 2007

Ethics of Conduct for Peace and Stability Operations
Daniel H. Levine, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
December 2008 – December 2009

Ethics is how civilizations codify lessons learned with blood, so that future generation can build on lessons of the past.

The  Long Commission Report was very closely held, at the time only five people including John Guenther and Robert Steele, had access to the entire report.  Here's the bottom line:

1)  The threat changed and no one noticed.  The battalion commander, who had previously served as the senior Marine in the CIA's Special Operations Group (SOG), was told he was in a benign threat environment in which casual shrapnel was the highest threat to his troops, and it therefore made sense, if they were to be billeted ashore (Navy cannot stand dust and bootmarks  on its lily decks), to put them in a solid building.

2) Policy-makers had no clue about the connection between their behavior and the threat.  They  thought lobbing in battleship shells the size of small cars would “send a message” without realizing that a) this changed the Marine Corps role from peace-keeper to belligerent; and b) they might inspire a message back.

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Here's what comes up on <gross national happiness>

Review: The Hidden Wealth of Nations

Review: The Politics of Happiness–What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being

Review: The Health of Nations–Society and Law beyond the State

Phi Beta Iota: The Founding Fathers of the United STATES of America included the “pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence.  This was not frivolous.  Wikipedia provides a superb concise discussion of how to interpret happiness in “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Our own interpretation, to which the below books have contributed, is that happiness is construed in two distinct aspects:

First, that each person find their fullest potential and live to that potential; and

Second, that each person be nurtured to their fullest potential within a harmonious community, or “fraternite.”

Happiness, like trust, lowers the cost to society of everything.

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