Search: Strategic Analytic Model

A Strategic Analytic Model is the non-negotiable first step in creating Strategic Intelligence, and cascades downto also enable Operational, Tactical, and Technical Intelligence. The most relevant strategic analytic model to our purposes is the one inspired by the United Nations High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change.  Their report,  A More Secure World–Our Shared …

Review: Ecological Intelligence–How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything (Hardcover)

From 4 to Five for Gifted Story and Amazon Price Cut November 29, 2009 Daniel Goleman I chose this book over Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature and seeing the author’s note about this other book “by a physician, Jungian analyst, and poet” am certain I made the right choice. The author’s “big idea” is …

Review: Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

Boring, Original, Don’t Know Enough to Give Less Than Five Stars November 28, 2009 Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd I found this book boring, and not nearly as breath-taking and inspiring as Robert Wright’s Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, which altered my perception of everything else, and is right up there with E. …

Reference: Department of State Language Gaps

Phi Beta Iota: The  Department of State (State), which should be the primary interface between the Republic, it’s policy, acquisition, and operations communities, and the rest of the world, has fewer diplomats than the Department of Defense (DoD) has military musicians; and continues to suffer persistent staffing and foreign language gaps that “compromise diplomatic readiness” …

Search: Seven Tribes (now Eight Tribes)

This concept first developed as an “information continuum” from described in 1992 as being from schoolhouse to White House, and then in 1993 covering nine elements as shown below. From there, for General Peter Schoomaker at USSOCOM, it was described as eight segments, treating the Internet as a separate entity.

Journal: Congress may probe faked global warming data

TG Daily Andrew Thomas Wednesday, 25 November 2009 The US Congress could start an investigation into leaked emails which suggest climate change statistics have been consistently manipulated to make the case for anthropogenic global warming more credible. The emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK – …