2014 Robert Steele On Defense Intelligence – Seven Strikes

On Defense Intelligence: Seven Strikes I consider defense intelligence today to be incoherent and ineffective. It has no grasp of the totality of the threat; it is largely worthless in providing SecDef with evidence-based decision support relevant to strategy, policy, acquisition, and operations; and it does not help DoD within the Cabinet when decision-support is …

Berto Jongman: Jihadist Gains in Iraq Blindside American Spies

Jihadist Gains in Iraq Blindside American Spies First Crimea, now Iraq. Why does America’s $50 billion intelligence community keep getting taken by surprise? Shane Harris Foreign Policy, 12 June 2014 nited States intelligence agencies were caught by surprise when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) seized two major Iraqi cities this …

Mini-Me: US Intelligence Community’s Kodak Moment — IMPLOSION — Comment by Robert Steele

Huh? The U.S. Intelligence Community’s Kodak Moment The game is changing rapidly. Can Washington’s intelligence community keep up? Josh Kerbel National Interest, 15 May 2014 Josh Kerbel is the Chief Analytic Methodologist at the Defense Intelligence Agency. He writes often and openly on the intersection of government (especially intelligence) and globalization. The views expressed in …

Berto Jongman: US National Security Achilles Heel – Electromagnetic Spectrum’s Vulnerability to Being Fried

U.S. National Security’s Achilles Heel – The Electromagnetic Spectrum Over the past four years bills on cybersecurity, Electromagnetic Pulse threats, and other forms of “purposeful interference” with U.S. cyberspace have been introduced only to go nowhere. By now it has been well established that EMP, whether in the form of a Carrington Event of solar origin or the …