Chuck Spinney: Analysis of Kunduz Hospital Bombing — Is the USAF Incapable of Doing Close Air Support (CAS)?

The author, a long time friend, is a retired Marine Lt. Colonel and, as a junior officer, served as forward artillery observer in heavy combat in Viet Nam. Key questions unasked in the news about the US attack on Kunduz Hospital By David Evans, Fabius Maximus Website, 22 Oct 2015 10 Hard Questions Below the …

Yoda: MIT Hypes Artificial Intelligence — All Ying, No Yang

Good ying, no yang…. Unique computer system developed at MIT aims to get the humans out of data analysis A new system developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can surpass the smartest people in the world. It aims to exclude the human element out of the data …

Robert Steele: Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0

Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0 Can Open Source Evolutionary Cybernetics Leverage Distributed Human Intelligence While Advancing Artificial Intelligence? DOC (16 Pages): 20151018 Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0 DOC (3 Pages): D3 Innovation Memorandum 2.1 (to VP, SecState, SecDef, D/OMB, A/USAID delivered 14 October 2015) SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-ACI2 ABSTRACT The information and intelligence (decision-support) domains have lost their …

Chuck Spinney: Col Pat Lang Provides Strategy on Syria — For Adults with Intelligence and Integrity…

Below at the close of this excellent opinion piece by Pat Lang is sensible prescription for shaping a schwerpunkt in so-called Global War on Terror or GWOT.  Lang cuts thru the Gordian Knot of inwardly focused contradictions that are overloading and paralyzing America’s grand strategy* in the Syrian Civil War and turning our country into …

Mongoose: ISIS Intelligence Manipulated?

Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating allegations that military officials have skewed intelligence assessments about the United States-led campaign in Iraq against the Islamic State to provide a more optimistic account of progress, according to several officials familiar with the inquiry.

Berto Jongman: Proof ISIS Beheadings Faked UPDATE 2 Analysis of the Fake Video

Evidence mounts. Staged ISIS Execution Video Leaked By Hackers The 7-Foot ISIS Soldiers – Bizarre Images Of Giant Soldiers Prove Fakery   UPDATE 2: Corporate Media Covers Staged ISIS Beheading Video UPDATE 1: OpEd: Film Producer/Director’s Analysis of ISIS “Fraud” Video See Also: Berto Jongman: Another ISIS Beheading Likely Fraud — US Should WITHDRAW from …