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2012/04/192012/04/19

Marcus Aurelius: General Mike Flynn to Head Defense Intelligence Agency

US Military Intelligence Critic To Lead Spy Agency By Agence France-Presse, 18 April 2012 A US general who once blasted the work of military spies in Afghanistan as “only marginally relevant” has been nominated to take over the Pentagon’s intelligence agency, officials said. The decision to name Lieutenant General Michael Flynn suggests a possible shake-up …

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2012/03/192012/03/19

Mini-Me: The Future of Intelligence is Your Dishwasher?

Huh? Marcus Aurelius: The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will ‘transform’ surveillance Devices connected to internet leak information CIA director says these gadgets will ‘transform clandestine tradecraft’ Spies could watch thousands via supercomputers People ‘bug’ their own homes with web-connected devices DefDog: CIA loves Internet of things… …

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2012/03/18

Berto Jongman: Big Data Big Deal — But Humans Still Dumb

Why Big Data is now such a big deal Computers are spewing forth data at astronomical rates about everything from astrophysics to internet shopping. And it could be hugely valuable John Naughton The Observer, 17 March 2012 One of the most famous quotes in the history of the computing industry is the assertion that “640KB …

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2012/03/162012/03/16

Search: treverton intelligence tribe policy

Greg Treverton was a brilliant conceptualizer of the competing influences on policymakers, and also a major voice in the original discussion of tribes in relation to intelligence focused on the intelligence production tribe and the political consumer tribe. Graphic: Competing Influences on the Policymaker (Treverton) This was a contributing foundation for Robert Steele’s conceptualization–with Alvin …

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2012/02/102016/03/25

Robert Steele: Intelligent Management of Intelligence Agencies, and the New Craft of Intelligence

I have begun drafting my portion of the new Handbook of Intelligence Studies (Routledge, 2013), it is a chapter early on entitled “The Craft of Intelligence.” I pick up where Allen Dulles and Sherman Kent left off. My graphic on Intelligence Maturity captures the essence of my thinking at the strategic level, but of course …

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2012/01/112012/01/11

Marcus Aurelius: Paul Pillar on Intelligence & Policy

Think Again: Intelligence I served in the CIA for 28 years and I can tell you: America’s screw-ups come from bad leaders, not lousy spies. Paul Pillar Foreign Policy, Jan/Feb 2012 “Presidents Make Decisions Based on Intelligence.” Not the big ones. From George W. Bush trumpeting WMD reports about Iraq to this year’s Republican presidential …

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2011/12/20

Michel Bauwens: Human Evolution – Who Are We Becoming?

Human evolution: Who are we becoming? By Steve McDonald On December 8, 2011 A map for the Archaic Revival This article appeared in Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) Journal 3 – 2011/2012 (December 2011) Introduction In 1974, American professor of psychology Dr Clare W Graves wrote an article for The Futurist magazine titled Human Nature Prepares for …

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