The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
August 24, 2009 Pg. 11 By Kris Osborn In 2008, U.S. military forces collected 400,000 hours of airborne surveillance video, up from several thousand hours 10 years ago. So the Pentagon is turning to computers to help save, sort and search it all. “The proliferation of unmanned systems across the battlefield is not going to …
Flagged by Marcus Aurelius. Bing West, former Marine and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan Administration, has put some straight-forwawrd words into the Small Wars Journal with a bottom-line that has been known to all of us for decades, but merits repetition over and over again until we finally …
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Together with a Few Other Books, All You Need to Know, March 21, 2008 Fred Kaplan The author is kinder to the protagonists than they merit. I give the author high marks for making the case early on in the book that the world did NOT change after 9-11, and that what really happened was …
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Commentary & Reply From Parameters, Summer 2005, pp. 135-40. Intelligence Reform: More Needs to Be Done To the Editor: There are no simple answers when it comes to intelligence reform. The debate on this issue has suffered from decades of policy manipulation, congressional neglect, media ignorance, public inattention, and professional laziness. Senator Saxby Chambliss’s Parameters …
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Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Digest 1.0[i] Robert David Steele Ben de Jong, Wies Platje, and Robert David Steele, PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (OSS International Press, 2003), pp. 201-225. Original As Published Executive Summary The Brahimi Report, in combination with documented field experience from numerous UN peacekeeping missions, and the memoirs and published statements …
5.0 out of 5 stars Puts RMA In Its Place, Smartly–Essential Reading, October 11, 2000
