CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 3 September 2009

Hot Topics AA:  Al-Qaeda launchpad in Yemen gives Saudis new headache 09/02/09 AF:  Warlord’s Defection Shows Afghan Risk 09/02/09 AF:  What’s Right With Afghanistan 09/02/09 IQ:  Iraq al Qaeda militant says Syria trained him 08/31/09 KG: US troops ordered out of Kyrgyzstan after Russia deal 08/30/09 PK:  Pakistan’s most-wanted: look at who isn’t listed 09/01/09 …

Journal: MILNET Flags Sorting It Out: New Tools Wrestle Mountains of Data Into Usable Intelligence

August 24, 2009 Pg. 11 By Kris Osborn In 2008, U.S. military forces collected 400,000 hours of airborne surveillance video, up from several thousand hours 10 years ago. So the Pentagon is turning to computers to help save, sort and search it all. “The proliferation of unmanned systems across the battlefield is not going to …

PACOM Week in Review Ending 16 August 2009

Hot Topics AU: Australian troops kill Afghan officer 08/12/09 AU: Commentary: Australian editors anti-China rant violates press ethics 08/14/09 AU: Investors cheer Chinese takeover of Felix 08/14/09 BD: Bangladesh mourns founding leader amid security 08/15/09 BD: Bangladesh moves to bring home coup fugitives 08/12/09 CN: Can China save the world economy? 08/14/09 CN: China: Filtering …

The Contested Commons

Michele Flournoy and Shawn Brimley U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings July 2009 Vol. 135/7/1,277 Two officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense look at a changing and challenging world and what it means for the future of American power. The world is undergoing a profound and lasting shift in the relative balance of power …

2009 The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer the World (Faculty of Advanced Engineering University of British Columbia March 2009)

Handouts (Their Site) PPT (Our Site): 2009 UBC The Ultimate Hack Slides 2.0 FINAL, with Notes) With a tip of the hat the University of British Columbia and Professor John Meech of the Faculty of Advanced Engineering, this is the latest briefing.  As with most of my briefings, planned words for brevity can be found …