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Intelligence with Integrity Chapter 1: Public Governance & Public Intelligence

Utilizar el Traductor de Google en la parte superior de la columna central Utilisez Google Translate au haut de la colonne du milieu Google’ın Orta Sütun Top of Çevir kullanın Используйте Google Translate в верхней части среднего столбца Sử dụng Google Translate Đầu Cột Trung उपयोग Google मध्य स्तंभ के शीर्ष पर अनुवाद 在中间一列的顶部，使用谷歌翻译 استخدام …

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Review: The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War

5.0 out of 5 stars ABSORBING — An Essential Reading for Citizens and Soliders, February 4, 2013 I did a very detailed review of the author’s first book, In the Hot Zone and I recommend that book as well as this one. They are different books and complement one another. The first book is about …

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DefDog: Shields and Brooks Condemn Senators — and Hagel — for a New Low in Hearings — PLUS 3 Big Ideas White House & Hagel’s People Don’t “Get”…

Senators irresponsible, Hagel unprepared and lacking any upfront vision to shape the encounter. Shields and Brooks on Hagel’s Rough Hearing, Movement on Immigration EXTRACT JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, speaking of secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, who, David, the president wants to be the secretary of defense, hearing yesterday, confirmation hearing before the Senate, pretty rough going. …

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Secrecy News: Army Manual on Inform & Influence — Still Retarded, But Small Signs of Progress

ARMY MANUAL HIGHLIGHTS ROLE OF “INFORM AND INFLUENCE ACTIVITIES” The use of information-related tools to support military operations and to help shape their outcome is discussed in a newly updated Army manual on what are now called “Inform and Influence Activities.” Inform and influence activities (or IIA) refers to “the integration of designated information-related capabilities …

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Rob Dover: Intelligence Failures in Syria & Algeria — Is Open Source Everything an Alternative? Steele Comments

Syria, Mali, Algerian gas-works and ‘Open Source Everything’ Read any government security document, any of the national security strategies produced by a now large number of states and you will get a feel for the proliferation in the number of threats they feel they face. The preamble will normally contain a paragraph explaining that after …

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Marcus Aurelius: New Special Forces Command, Mexico as Rabbit Hole, Zetas on Steroids Coming Soon

Invite your attention to both article immediately below and four comments on it, second below.  Some of the comments appear pretty sound to me.  Integrity of any institution of Mexican (MX) government seems questionable — “plata o plumba” is a long tradition in Latin America and the MX government has been in the press many …

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