Journal: Wind Power Boondoggle–and the Information Operations (IO) Challenge of Energy and Time in Relation to Policy, Acquisition, and Operations

My good friend Robert Bryce, author of the must-read Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future just launched this little torpedo. A Wind Power Boonedoggle T. Boone Pickens badly misjudged the supply and price of natural gas. By ROBERT BRYCE, Wall Street Journal, 22 December 2010 After 30 …

Journal: Israel Persists on Polard–an Information Operations (IO) Case Study

In Wash Post article on CIA’s Wikileaks TF, passed u/s/c, the following quote closes the piece, “the former high-ranking CIA officer said. “Nobody could carry out enough paper to do what WikiLeaks has done.””  Not sure that’s true.  Open source reporting not long after his trial indicated that Pollard hand carried tremendous volumes of paper …

Graphic: OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act)

Simplified: Nuanced: Credit Simplied Credit Nuanced See Also: Journal: Spinney, Boyd, Green, Kuhn on “Can America Be Salvaged?–Public Intelligence Aspects” Review: Boyd–The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War Review (Guest): Science, Strategy and War–The Strategic Theory of John Boyd

Obama’s March to Folly: The Myth of Liberal Intervention & the Arrogance of Ignorance

Weekend Edition December 17 – 19, 2010 The Myth of Liberal Intervention and the Arrogance of Ignorance Obama’s March to Folly By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney12172010.html In a recent opinion piece, “Kosovo and the Myth of Liberal Intervention,” Neil Clark in the Guardian on 15 December gave the reader a good summary of the …

Tutorial: How Not to Get a Good [Air Force] OER

Readers on this list who have served in the military should really watch this summary of how get a good officer efficiency report (aka officer proficiency report, etc.). Air Force Promotion Review Above is a YouTube Video 3:13. The 47 comments are themselves worthy of attention.

Search: US fraud tri-fecta

Great concept!  Here are the three that first appeared in Personal for Mike Bloomberg at Huffington Post, and are now brought together under an easily remembered term.  However, Chuck Spinney’s new piece just published has to be included, so we stay with your search term, and and the newest reference on top of the tri-fecta. …