The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: The author, Michael O’Hanlon, remains one of our most respected commentators on defense, and his suggestions within this document are entirely reasonable. However, he does not go far enough. A 10% reduction of a military-industrial complex budget that has nearly tripled in 30 years is not serious, nor is there innovation in …
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Working for change: Samasource redefines international aid December 10, 2010 On Need to Know, we do a lot of reporting about the world’s problems. But we’re premiering a new series about people coming up with creative solutions — it’s called “Agents of Change.” Click on title to read short intro and option to view video…. …
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Franklin D. Kramer (Editor), Stuart H. Starr (Editor), Larry Wentz (Editor) Read Macgregor & Steele for the Other Half January 1, 2011 I like the book and I like the authors and I do NOT like the fact that neither decision-support nor intelligence (decision-support) nor M4IS2* are in this book. Retired Reader’s review–at five stars–is …
Wikipedia Biography with Many Links The Macgregor Briefings: An Information Age Vision for the U.S. Army NOTE 1: HTML versions work, PPT do not NOTE 2: Cyber/IO is the enabler of all that he envisions. Warrior’s Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting (2009) Transformation Under Fire: Revolutionizing How America Fights (2004) Breaking the …
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One of President Obama’s unintended achievements has been to bring the moral bankruptcy of the Orwellian-named Middle East Peace Process into sharp relief: By trying to bribe Netanyahu into returning to the bargaining table with an offer of 20 additional F-35 Fighters in return for a 90 day extension of a phony settlement freeze, and …
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Public Health Information Technology: Additional Strategic Planning Needed to Guide HHS’s Efforts to Establish Electronic Situational Awareness Capabilities GAO-11-99 December 17, 2010 A catastrophic public health event could threaten our national security and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. Recognizing the need for efficient sharing of real-time information to help prevent devastating consequences of public …
How Can the Economy Recover? DECEMBER 23, 2010 Jeff Madrick Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro FT Press, 266 pp., $26.99 Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis by Anatole Kaletsky …
