The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Brief Synopsis Security and stability in the 21st century have little to do with traditional power politics, military conflict between states, and issues of grand strategy. Instead they revolve around the disruptive consequences of globalization, declining governance, inequality, urbanization, and nonstate violent actors. The author explores the implications of these issues for the United States. …
Israel-Palestinian Authority: US Secretary of State Clinton said on 20 August that Israel and the Palestinians agreed to resume direct negotiations for the first time in 20 months. A senior PLO official said the Palestinians accepted the U.S. invitation to begin direct peace negotiations between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …
China-North Korea: China offered to help North Korea control cross-border crime and build law-enforcement forces, according to a report by Agence France-Presse on 12 August. A spokesman also said China provided military equipment to North Korea’s National Defense Commission during a visit by China’s Deputy Public Security Minister Liu Jing on 8 August. North Korea’s …
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(COMMENT: Retirees being targeted again…) Tom Philpott | August 05, 2010 Advisory Panels Say Military Benefits Unsustainable A consensus is building among current and former military leaders and defense industry executives that rising military personnel costs threaten the viability of the all-volunteer force. FULL STORY, Excellent Quotes from MajGen Arnold Punaro, USMC (Ret) former Staff …
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In simple terms, the collection of links below centered on the latest Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), come to the general conclusion that the Department of Defense (DoD) can no longer think, strategize, complete staff work, or acquire the right capabilities to do what DoD is supposed to do (which is also a topic lacking consensus). …
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Il ya de nombreux articles en français sur Robert Steele et l’Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) [renseignement avec des sources ouvertes et de méthodes] mouvement, voici les par Robert Steele. Court trajet: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-en-Francais 2014-09-13 INTERVIEW Robert Steele with Pierre Cloutier Québec – plaidoyer pour une nation intelligente 1997 Strategic Intelligence in the USA: Myth or Reality? …
Sorry about this not coming up right off. It’s common name is 450-ship Navy, the piracy was added later. 2008 U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century TRUE STORY: OSS did the first Somalia piracy evaluation for CENTCOM J-2P, in 2005. Years later we were able to ask both Navy Irregular Warfare and US Special …
