The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Great search! We’ve been thinking recently about writing a piece on Strategic Counterintelligence that begins with Sun Tzu’s guidance to “know oneself.” Your search is encouraging. It boils down to one word: INTEGRITY. The problem emerges when we fail to invest in education (as opposed to rote Weapons of Mass Instruction), this ultimate produces a …
This entire web site is about intelligence reform, at three levels; Level I: Unscrew the secret world, which spends $75B a year on the 10-20% it can steal (of which it only processes 1-6%, ultimately producing no more than 4% of what the President needs to know, and virtually nothing for anyone else. Level II: …
Settling An Intelligence Turf War By Walter Pincus Washington Post November 17, 2009 Pg. 29 Early last week, several long-festering bureaucratic issues that had arisen between Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair and CIA Director Leon Panetta had to be settled by national security adviser James L. Jones, through some Solomon-like decisions.
If one takes the “battlefield” to include all challenges, not just the challenge of a battle in a singular time and place, then this search is the mother of all searches. We like to use the analogy of sailboat racing, something we learned from a video, DVD: THE ART OF RACING SAILING. This DVD begins …
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INTELLIGENCE for PEACE: Multinational, Multifunctional Information-Sharing and Sense-Making, edited by Col Jan-Inge Svensson, SE (Ret), the foremost authority and educator on peace intelligence and the use of unclassified decisions support, goes to the printer on or about 1 December 2009. This is the sequel to PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future. Anyone wishing to …
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Handouts (Their Site) PPT (Our Site): 2009 UBC The Ultimate Hack Slides 2.0 FINAL, with Notes) With a tip of the hat the University of British Columbia and Professor John Meech of the Faculty of Advanced Engineering, this is the latest briefing. As with most of my briefings, planned words for brevity can be found …
Richard J. Aldrich is in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham and is co-editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security. His publications include Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and The Hidden Hand: Britain America and Cold War Secret …
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