The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Taliban Overhaul Their Image In Bid To Win Allies Phi Beta Iota: We’ve known since 9/11 that the asymmetric war is also marked by an asymmetric excellence in public relations, propaganda and perception management–not only do our opponents spend $1 for every $500,000 to $5 million that we spend, but they are better at this …
Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones $26 Software Is Used to Breach Key Weapons in Iraq; Iranian Backing Suspected WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials …
Phi Beta Iota: We thought we would look at one month’s English-language news reporting on the term <stabilization and reconstruction> in relation to top countries of concern to the USA. Here is what we found. Our general conclusion: the US is doing all it can in Afghanistan; the Strategic Communication in Iraq is totally hosed, …
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This is UNDER CONSTRUCTION but still useful to intelligence analysts thinking about stabilization & reconstruction, and when combined with our revolution preconditions matrix, can inform Strategic Communications as well as Information Operations (IO). Notice the emphasis on identifying INDICATORS, in political science this is called “operationalization” and serves to connect outcomes with indicators with data …
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7 Stars–Nobel Prize (Of Old, Before Devalued) – Life Transformative Insights November 28, 2009 Robert Wright QUOTE: “Non-zero-sumness is a kind of potential–a potential for overall gain, or for overall loss, depending on how the game is played.” This book is one of the most sophisticated, deep, documented, and influential I have ever read, right …
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Search: The Future of OSINT is M4IS2 Search: Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield Reference: Information Operations (IO) Newsletters Reference: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report on Information Operations (IO), Electronic Warfare (EW), and Cyberwar: Capabilities and Related Policy Issues Reference: Chinese Information Warfare
Military Refines A ‘Constant Stare Against Our Enemy’ The rapidly increasing surveillance power of unmanned aircraft gives U.S. officials an option beside s troops By Julian E. Barnes November 2, 2009 Pg. 1 WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to dramatically increase the surveillance capabilities of its most advanced unmanned aircraft next year, adding so many …
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