#OWS #ElectoralReform Strategy Memorandum

Restoring the Republic – One  People – One Voice – One Community Grand Strategy is about combining means (inputs) and ways to achieve ends (outcomes). In very general terms, the strategic outcomes that appear to be sought by the mélange of participants in the emerging nation-wide—even global—rebellion against the existing system—center around social justice as …

Chuck Spinney: Criteria for a Sensible Grand Strategy

Criteria of a Sensible Grand Strategy Chuck Spinney (updated 11 Aug 2011) The Bush administration’s theory and practice of grand strategy could be summarized in the sound byte, “You are either with us or you are with the terrorists.” President Obama may have softened the rhetoric but his escalation of the targeted killing strategy by …

Review: Lines of Fire – A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security

Ralph Peters 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Star Epilogue, the Capstone Work, September 26, 2011 I have been a fan of Ralph Peters for over fifteen years now, going back to the early 1990’s when the US Marine Corps was trying to get the Secretary of Defense (then Dick Cheney) to focus on most …

Review: Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy – Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy

John Lenczowski 5.0 out of 5 stars Long Needed Treatise, But Too Expensive,September 21, 2011 EDIT of 11 December 2011: Gene Poteat, President of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) has an excellent review of this book in the Summer/Fall 2011 issue of Intelligencer. The following quote is from his review, it captures the …

Chuck Spinney: Grand Strategy Analysis of 9/11 Blow-Back

An excellent grand-strategic analysis of last 10 years. September 1, 2011 9/11 Blowback By H.D.S. GREENWAY Historians will label the events of that September morning 10 years ago as the most destructive act of terrorism ever committed up to that time. But I suspect they will also judge America’s last decade as one of history’s …

Review (Guest): Deep Green Resistance – Strategy to Save the Planet

Derrick Jensen (Author), Aric McBay (Author), Lierre Keith (Author) About the Authors Activist, philosopher, teacher, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, DERRICK JENSEN holds degrees in creative writing and mineral engineering physics. In 2008, he was named one of the Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World,” and in 2006 he was named …

US Calls for Global Cybersecurity Strategy (Ha Ha)

I would suspect that a number of countries hung up on this call……. U.S. Calls for Global Cybersecurity Strategy By HELENE COOPER, May 16, 2011 New York Times EXTRACT: The strategy calls for officials from the State Department, the Pentagon, the Justice Department, the Commerce Department and the Department of Homeland Security to work with …