Michael Kearns: Spy agencies team up with National Academies — 25 Years Late and Badly Focused
Academia, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Spy agencies team up with National Academies
In an unprecedented move, U.S. intelligence agencies are teaming up with the nation's most prestigious scientific body in a bid to make better use of findings from the country's leading social and behavioral scientists.
Berto Jongman: WikiLeaks EndGame – Open Governance or a Costly Secrecy Tax
Cultural Intelligence
Want to Know Julian Assange’s Endgame? He Told You a Decade Ago
“The idea is, ‘If we can prevent them from having secrets, they have to operate very differently.'”
“Organizations have two choices (1) reduce their levels of abuse or dishonesty or (2) pay a heavy ‘secrecy tax’ in order to engage in inefficient but secretive processes,” the spokesperson writes. “As organizations are usually in some form of competitive equilibrium this means that, in the face of WikiLeaks, organizations that are honest will, on average, grow, while those that are dishonest and unjust will decline.”
Stephen E. Arnold: Google’s Closed (Controlled) Jail Yard
Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Google and the Mobile Traffic Matter
I read a couple of writes up about “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic.” Quite surprisingly there was a response to these “stealing” articles by Google. You can read the explanation in a comment by Malte Ubl in the original article (link here). . . . Today’s Google is now a legacy system. I know this is heretical, but Google is not a search company. The firm is using its legacy platform to deliver revenue and maximize that revenue. Facebook (which has lots of Xooglers running around) is doing essentially the same thing but with plumbing variations. I am probably wildly out of step with youthful Googlers and the zippy mobile AMPers. But from my vantage point, Google has been delivering a closed garden solution for a long time.
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Doug Macgregor: Reconnaissance Strike Group
10 Security, DoD, Ethics, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Strategy
PPT (39 Slides): Reconnaissance Strike Group (in FY 17 NDAA)
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/RSG-Briefing
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Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Capabilities-Force Structure, Geospatial, ICT-IT, Leadership-Integrity, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Political, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats, True Cost
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 the future of the US Army as an expeditionary force in a complex world that is rapidly decentralizing while also facing major development challenges.
We have, with the election of Donald Trump,a once-in-a-century opportunity to rethink, reinvent, and reinvest in our national military concepts, doctrine, human capital, organizations, technologies, and command structures, while eradicating much of the waste that is characteristic of a “government specifications cost plus” approach to contracting. Donald Trump won against all odds, against both parties, without the support of the military-industrial complex. Donald Trump is “unshackled” (his word) – his instincts on costly foreign entanglements and the utility of organizations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are on display.
Wars are won or lost in the decade or two before those wars begin. Whether countries have a Grand Strategy or not; evaluate all high-level threats or not; devise a coherent force structure in which all services and civilian agencies are complementary, inter-operable, and sustainable or not; invest in the human factor for leadership and solider agility or not – these will determine the outcome of future wars a decade or two before the first shot is fired.
If the US Army does not re-invent itself, it will absolutely not win the next war.
DOC: EIN 7FV42 ERAP Steele Vol 3 Reinventing the US Army 2.5 LINKS
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Doug Macgregor: The Reconnaissance-Strike Group – Statement to the National Commission on the Future of the Army
04 Inter-State Conflict, 10 Security, Ethics, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Strategy
SHORT URL:
http://tinyurl.com/RSG-Testimony
STATEMENT TO THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE FUTURE OF THE ARMY
The Reconnaissance-Strike Group Proposal
By Douglas Macgregor, EVP, BMG LLC
Taylor Building, 2530 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA
18 November 2015
