SchwartzReport: World Changes Scare USG

Corruption, Design, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
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Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Here is the latest on the great geopolitical shift that is occurring in the world, as power shifts away from national states to virtual nongeographical corporate states and trans-national ideological movements. I was very glad to find this piece because almost no one in media is talking about this. I have previously seen this sort of material only in academic journals.

The quiet global crisis that scares the State Department

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Robert Parry: The Day After Damascus Falls

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call
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Robert Parry
Robert Parry

The Day After Damascus Falls

Exclusive: The Saudi-Israeli alliance has gone on the offensive, ramping up a “regime change” war in Syria and, in effect, promoting a military victory for Al-Qaeda or its spinoff, the Islamic State. But the consequences of that victory could toll the final bell for the American Republic, writes Robert Parry.

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SchwartzReport: Most School Kids Have No Clue How Government Works (Or Does Not Work)

#OSE Open Source Everything, 04 Education
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Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

How long can a democracy endure when its children don't even know what a democracy is. I agree with Justice Sandra Day O Connor when she says, the results are “truly frightening, and demonstrate that we must put the same emphasis on these subjects that we are putting on math and science.” The only additional comment I would make is that if we are emphasizing science and math, we are doing a dreadful job of it. American school children rank very low in the developed world on either science or math.

Most U.S. Middle-School Kids Don't Know How Government Works

Robert Steele: Open Source Intelligence 101 (Intelligence Tradecraft in the Third Millennium)

Articles & Chapters
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Robert David Steele Vivas

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Robert David Steele

To appear in Intelligence Tradecraft for the Third Millennium (Romania)

DOC (7 Pages): Open Source Intelligence 1.3

Intelligence is the art and science of evidence-based decision-support. Intelligence is not defined by its inputs (spies, secrecy, money, risk) but rather by its outputs – tailored actionable decision-support. In this context, the fastest, least expensive, and very often the best intelligence is achievable using mostly – and sometime only – open sources and methods.

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Chuck Spinney: Maj Paul J. Tremblay, USMC Produces Original Expansion on Ideas of Col John Boyd, USAF — BRAVO ZULU!

Advanced Cyber/IO
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Chuck Spinney

EXTRACT from Spinney's long comment:

Attached below is a masters thesis written by Major Paul J. Tremblay,** USMC as part of his study in the Command and Staff College of the U.S. Marine Corps.  In my opinion, Tremblay has produced precisely the kind idea expansion that Colonel Boyd was trying to inspire with his Discourse.

P.J. Tremblay’s thesis aims to clarify what is perhaps the single most misunderstood aspect of Boyd’s theory of interacting OODA loops: the confusion of absolute speed with relative quickness, particularly as it applies to agility in Orientation and Re-Orientation.  Tremblay’s aim is to improve the Marine Corps training curriculum by clarifying Boyd’s ideas and laying out a way to better incorporate them in progressively more comprehensive ways at each level in the Marine Corps’ educational system, from the lowest to the highest level.

PJ’s  thesis is a case study in the kind of intellectual development and stimulation that John Boyd was trying to achieve by leaving the Marine Corps Research Center with the complete archive of his briefings and note.  Boyd, an honorary Marine, would say, “Semper Fidelus, PJ.”

PDF (40 Pages) Shaping and Adapting – Unlocking the Power of Colonel John Boyd's OODA Loop

Long Comment by Spinney Below the Fold

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