Broad mix, worthy of bookmarking.
Steven Aftergood: JCS on Strategy — Directing All the Instruments of National Power
Strategy
STRATEGY: DIRECTING THE INSTRUMENTS OF NATIONAL POWER
The tools that can be used to assert national power and influence have often been summarized by the acronym DIME — Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic.
But “US policy makers and strategists have long understood that there are many more instruments involved in national security policy development and implementation,” according to a new Joint Chiefs of Staff publication on the formulation of national strategy.
Berto Jongman: 10 Future Shock Emerging Risks
Future-OrientedFuture shocks: 10 emerging risks that threaten our world
1. Not enough food to go around
2. Algorithms shut down the internet
3. The end of trade as we know it
4. Democracy buckles
5. The extinction of fish
6. Another global financial crisis
7. The rise and rise of inequality
8. War without rules
9. Who are we?
10. The break-up of the internet
Steven Aftergood: CRS on Defense R&D
03 Economy, DoD, Military, Research resourcesNearly half of all federal research and development dollars go to the Department of Defense, a new report from the Congressional Research Service observes. The Pentagon research budget is more than twice that of the next largest recipient, the Department of Health and Human Services.
The structure of the DoD research budget, which has “its own unique taxonomy,” is described in the new CRS report. See Department of Defense Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E): Appropriations Structure, December 13, 2016:
Robert Steele: NYT (David Sanger, Scott Shane) WashPost (Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller) Full of Crap – Fake News — Russians Did Not Hack Election UPDATE 2
07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Media, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests
Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House
Russia Hacked Republican Committee but Kept Data, U.S. Concludes
The Obama Administration is being duplicitous at the last minute before the Electoral College meets on 19 December 2016, the CIA is lying, the “intelligence” is being fabricated, and both the New York Times and the Washington Post are now joining CNN (the Crap News Network) as purveyors of “fake news.” The Huffington Post, which appended the most offensive erroneous statement slandering President-Elect Trump to every article, is beneath contempt — hardly worth a mention, but noteworthy for being the bottom of the media cesspool.
Donald Trump’s Airplane(s)
Leadership
Eric Kant: NGA Disparate Data Challenge Winning Solution within Stage 1 of the Competition
Advanced Cyber/IO, Geospatial
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Disparate Data Challenge encourages participants to offer solutions that can demonstrate effective capabilities that enable access to data that is wildly disparate in its formats, schemas, interfaces and locations, so that it may be available for search, business metrics and data and information analytics.
Here is our submittal to NGA that was selected within Stage 1 of the competition.
