Berto Jongman: Dan Harris on Eroding Human Intelligence Collection in the US Intelligence Community — Reflections on Intelligence Reform by Robert Steele

The Consequences of Eroding Human Intelligence Collection TheCIPHERBrief, November 2, 2016 | Dan Harris The U.S. Intelligence Community’s (IC) clandestine human intelligence (HUMINT) services are experiencing an erosion of their core mission and values, with consequences to our current and future collection capability.   . . .   I believe the issue in the IC is not …

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part III in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Robert David Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the third of three monographs focused on …

Antechinus: CIA Killed OSINT at Birth — 80% of “OSINT” Studies are Bullshit

Further to the Phi Beta Iota comments on the mistaken limitation of OSINT to passive monitoring of web sites and such…. Prevalent approaches to countering ‘radicalisation’ ineffective, conceptually flawed “A lack of research based on primary sources has been one of the major impediments to progress in the field of (counter-) terrorism studies… As numerous …

Ben Norton @ Salon: Col Lawrence Wilkerson, USA (Ret) Condemns US Military-Industrial Complex

“We are the death merchant of the world”: Ex-Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson condemns military-industrial complex The military-industrial complex “is much more pernicious than Eisenhower ever thought,” says the retired US colonel “Was Bill Clinton’s expansion of NATO — after George H. W. Bush and [his Secretary of State] James Baker had assured Gorbachev and then …

Joachim Hagopian: Neocon Hegelian-Style Warfare against Islam, Russia, China and Iran in a Post-9/11 World

Neocon Hegelian-style warfare against Islam, Russia, China and Iran in a post-9/11 world Joachim Hagopian Sott.net, Tue, 14 Jun 2016 In my latest article I examine the destructive US foreign policy through the Hegelian Dialectic lens where the puppet masters and their neocon Pinocchio-nosed neocons have declared war on Islam, Russia, China and Iran. The …

Robert Steele: Connecting Some Dots — Blacks in Prison, Police Militarization, Persecution of Whistleblowers, and False Flag Operations — All Obstacles to a Prosperous World at Peace

I have been reflecting on the “legacy” of the past several presidencies at home and abroad. From where I set, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy — an assassination carried out by CIA and FBI officers allied with Cuban and Jewish criminals, Israel, and monied interests in Texas and New York — the US …