The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Worth a read. Interesting report based on innovative research method. From the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. Report: Contours of Conflict in the 21st Century EXTRACT from Overview: In gaining a better understanding of the future nature of conflict, it is therefore of the utmost importance to go beyond the traditional Western (English) language domain …
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Creating a Smart Nation–and a World Brain–demands the participation of all of the people all of the time.
Anonymous [US counterterrorism analyst] NOTE: Free Online, Table of Contents Beyond Five Stars–Epic, Poetic, Startling, Reasoned, June 11, 2011 I have been totally absorbed with this book, and I HATE electronic books. At the age of 58, if I can’t hold it and flip back and forth and quickly check the index, and so on, …
Ralph Peters Gifted writing, much less detail than expected April 1, 2011 Ralph Peters is an acquired taste for some, an addiction for others. I am in the latter camp and read everything he publishes, with a strong preference for his non-fiction books about reality, war, and the general lack of integrity across both …
Much ado is being made of the “revelation” in the Wikileaks data dump that some Sunni Arab leaders were quietly in favor of an American and/or Israeli strike on Iran to terminate Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program with extreme prejudice. Implicit in this war-mongering hysteria is an acceptance of an implacable Shia-Sunni conflict threatening the …
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Special NightWatch Comment: Mirror imaging is a serious analytical flaw. If things are not done their way, analysts are prone to consider them inferior or wrong. It manifests a dangerous, potentially lethal cultural bias. This week US officers were quoted in international press, yet again, as accusing the Taliban of cowardice because they use improvised …
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