Review: Who Speaks For Islam?–What a Billion Muslims Really Think
Muslim 101, Excellent Overview and Starting Point, May 4, 2008
Review: Day of Empire–How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–and Why They Fall
Disappointing, Oversold, Original as far as it goes, January 11, 2008
Review: A Crowd of One–The Future of Individual Identity
Major leap forward in understanding humanity and its future, April 21, 2007
Review: The End of Faith–Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
Very Important, Objective, Valuable, Relevant to Peace, August 8, 2006
2006 INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time
I have learned a great deal from colleagues at the U.S. Special Operations Command. Their most memorable lesson is captured in the following quotation from a person who in my mind represents the very best intellect and ethics that command has to offer: “Secret intelligence is 10% of all-source intelligence, and all-source intelligence is 10% …
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1994 Sounding the Alarm on Cyber-Security
This is the cover letter to the US Government official most responsible for thinking about the National Information Infrastructure (NII) and the security of that infrastructure. Three “top guns,” one of the the foremost authority in the public arena, another the foremost expert on these matters advising the National Security Agency (NSA) all agreed on …
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