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Review: Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies

PRINTABLE DOC (3 Pages): Review Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies Robert Dover (Editor), Michael S. Goodman (Editor), Claudia Hillebrand (Editor) 5.0 out of 5 stars The best collection in English — bold, innovative, essential, October 31, 2013 Routledge’s managing editor for this collection, and the contributing editors themselves, one of whom I know personally, have …

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Jean Lievens: Wikinomic Innovation Redux – World Upside Down

Hothouse innovation redux: The world “upside down” Recently The Economist released a feature report on how innovation in emerging markets may be eclipsing innovation in North America. The report, The world turned upside down (click “Buy PDF” for a complimentary copy courtesy of BASF) reinforces the fact that globalization and disruptive innovation is no longer …

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4th Media: What Will Happen to the Global Economy If BRICS Announce Launch of New Currency – BRISCO?

What Will Happen to the Global Economy If BRICS Announce Launch of New Currency – BRISCO? Peter Koenig, a former World Bank economist and a Voice of Russia regular, outlines one of the scenarios in which America’s plans for a New World Order are broken. Part I For several decades, we’ve been told by the mainstream media …

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Bearden & Koskinas ON AFGHANISTAN + RECAP

Milt Bearden HIST 11 July 2011 Don’t Be Spooked by Pakistan HIST 1 Oct 2009 TESTIMONY to SFRC “The War in Afghanistan, The Regional Effects” HIST 9 April 2009 Obama’s War HIST March/April 2009 Curse of the Khyber Pass HIST Nov/Dec 2001 Afghanistan Graveyard of Empires Ioannis Koskinas 2013-08-01  The U.S.-Afghan game of “Chicken” 2013-07-10  …

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Berto Jongman: Ahmed Kashid on Why, and What, You Should Know About Central Asia

EXTRACT: China and Central Asia None of the works under review provides the full answers to these questions, although Alexander Cooley’s book, Great Games, Local Rules, comes closest. They all agree on the unprecedented rise of China’s influence in Central Asia. Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse, scholars at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., demonstrate …

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Winslow Wheeler: Purge the Generals to Fix the Army + Flag Corruption and Ineptitude RECAP

There is a devastating review of the quality of Army leadership at the new issue of Armed Forces Journal.  At Armed Forces Journal, it is an article by Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis (“Purge the Generals”), and it merits the attention of anyone following military affairs, I believe.  If you think Army leadership is an island of …

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Q&A: Juan Enriquez, futurist, on bio-economics — bio-strategy still silent…

Q&A: Juan Enriquez, futurist, on the intersection of science, business and society Christina Hernandez Sherwood | July 1, 2013 Growing up in Mexico, Juan Enriquez didn’t consider new discoveries and scientific innovations particularly important. But now, after a circuitous route from a student at Harvard University to a Mexican peace negotiator and back to Harvard as …

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