Review (Guest): THE WATCHERS–The Rise of America’s Surveillance State

FIVE STARS The People We Pay to Look Over Our Shoulders By ERIC LICHTBLAU By Shane Harris At this very moment analysts at the National Security Agency some 30 miles north of the White House are monitoring countless flashpoints of data — cellphone calls to “hot” numbers, an e-mail message on a suspicious server, an …

Review: Willful Neglect–The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security

Final Review: Ground-Level View of Obvious Vulnerabilities and a General Failure to Protect February 10, 2010 [final review 21 February] Sam Faddis My own new book is finally at the printer, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainaabilty and I am really enjoying getting back into serial reading. I totally respected and agreed with …

Search: memetic leadership design

Wonderful serach.  We have some graphics and some books, and a couple of external links for you. Top Recommendations: Graphic: Six Circles–Earth Intelligence Network Operational Concept Graphic: Epoch B Multinational Network Rising Graphic: Open Everything Review: Evolutionary Activism by Tom Atlee Review: Nonzero–The Logic of Human Destiny Review: The Compassionate Instinct–The Science of Human Goodness …

MILNET Headlines, 8 February 2010

American Commentary: America Rides off Into the Sunset American Commentary: Mr. President, Words Matter Big Dumb Government: Recession chugs on, except in government Big Dumb Government: U.S. to Form Climate-Change Agency Cyber-Security: Open Security Foundation – State of the Union 2010 Cyber-Security: Zeus Attack Spoofs NSA, Targets .gov and .mil Foreign Affairs: China Growls At …

Journal: Pentagon’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a Metaphor for a Predictable Defense Meltdown

The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources that its decision makers create for themselves, even when budgets are at the highest levels since the end of WWII.  The F-35 …

Journal: DoD Mind-Set Time Lags Most Fascinating

Pentagon Shifts Its Strategy To Small-Scale Warfare By August Cole and Yochi J. Dreazen Wall Street Journal  January 30, 2010  Pg. 4 The shift in strategy sets up potential conflicts with defense contractors and powerful lawmakers uneasy with the Pentagon’s growing focus on smaller-scale, guerilla warfare. In particular, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has come to …