The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ROBERT STEELE: A large company paid me to write this in 2004, ostensibly as a white paper to be delivered to then newly-appointed DNI John Negoponte. In fairness to that company, even if they were honest on this point and not just buying my playbook, the prime contract they won with the Open Source Center …
Robert David STEELE Vivas 4 Jun 04 Keynote to International Intelligence History Association (Graz, Austria) FINAL 1.6 dated 30 May 2004 RTF 9 Pages: Steele IIHA Keynote 21st Century Intelligence FINAL RTF 21st Century Intelligence: A History from the Future Robert David STEELE Vivas Let me begin by paying tribute to two historians, five realists, …
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Presidential Intelligence Dear Mr. President, Now that you have won election as President of the United States of America, you must come to grips with what may well be the most fundamental topic pertinent to your success as our leader. I refer to the need to make America a “Smart Nation”, a …
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Chapter 12, “Presidential Leadership and National Security Policy Making,” pp. 245-282. PDF (38 Pages): Chapter 12 Presidential Leadership Background The Ninth Annual Strategy Conference, held at the U.S. Army War College in 1998, addressed the theme of “Challenging the United States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically: Can America be Defeated?” In the course of that event, a …
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How to Avoid Future Strategic Intelligence Failures This article focuses on three concerns of mine that are central to ensuring that the restructuring effort is meaningful. First, what “sins” of strategic intelligence persist in the face of restructuring? Second, how must the nature of the individual intelligence analyst, their working conditions, and their relationship to …
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