The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Below is one of the better pieces of its type that I’ve read. While it refers several times to USMA, the majority of it is, IMHO, applicable to new officers from all commissioning sources. I think the most important point author makes comes at the end where he emphasizes the reality of a platoon leader’s …
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Can We Really Blame Sociopaths? I’ve been hearing increasingly from multiple quarters that the root of our problems is psychopaths and sociopaths and other loosely defined but definitely different beings from ourselves. Rob Kall has produced a quite interesting series of articles and interviews on the subject. I want to offer some words of caution …
We’re playing around. None of the RSS / curation offerings are satisfactory. As a side note: the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) is Top Secret Limited Distribution and costs roughly 219 million dollars a day and is seen by very few. This daily is free and open to all. Below is a simple Global Reality matrix. …
We’re playing around. None of the RSS / curation offerings are satisfactory. As a side note: the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) is Top Secret Limited Distribution and costs roughly 219 million dollars a day and is seen by very few. This daily is free and open to all. Below is a simple Global Reality matrix. …
This a “three-fer” on leadership and officership. It provides some theory (from a Naval Special Warfare perspective), a media summary of how too many of our senior officers are not getting it right, and one officer’s list of historical anecdotes when it was done right. * The headliner, ADM McRaven’s speech to USMA Class of 2015 500th Night, …
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SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Reform Security sector reform and advancement begins in the mind. In the 21st Century, raw information and tailored intelligence (decision support) are fundamental to progress at the strategic, operational, tactical, and technical levels. If we are to properly address intelligence governance from a comparative and international perspective rooted in an appreciation for the …
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Intel-Reform Under Construction – Send Nominations to robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com Updated 23 Jan 2014 14:58 E Phi Beta Iota: The current literature on intelligence reform is underdeveloped and under-specified. An example of this under- or mis-specification can be seen in the treatment of 9/11. The dominant position that 9/11 was an intelligence failure is correct …
