The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Crucial Adventures in Systems Thinking Systems are everywhere. They shape us and we can, do, and should shape them. Our destiny is tied up with them but they are pretty invisible. In this essay I explore some useful systems dynamics and perspectives and share two essays by others exploring the same vast territory in search …
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Five Takeaways from a Decade of War Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, in a keynote address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this week, signaled to military commanders that they should assume the across-the-board, automatic spending cuts imposed by sequester over the next decade will remain in place indefinitely. “We do not have …
* The Chinese character for revolution, “fire in the lake,” was made well-known to literate Americans by Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Little, Brown and Company, 2009), originally published in the early 1970’s. The book remains startlingly relevant to a learning-disabled US military repeating the same mistakes, …
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1,000,000 dead Iraqis: two decades of US military intervention Big Data Analytics Master’s Degrees: 20 Top Programs Phi Beta Iota: Most big data is crap. You analyze crap, you get crap analysis. Without a holistic analytic model, a deep commitment to true cost economics, and the ability to collect AND PROCESS all relevant data, big …
Please note Army Chief of Staff General Raymond T. Odierno‘s updated strategic priorities for the US Army, arranged in five (5) categories. PDF Slide Show: CSA Strategic Priorities vFinal 16Oct13 From those, here is an extract . EXTRACTS: [DOWNSIZED ARMY; EXPEDITIONARY] – Downsize, transition, and then sustain a smaller, but ready and capable Total Army …
Gene Zelazny 4.0 out of 5 stars Fundamentals Most Ignore A Bit Too Generic, October 6, 2013 I was lent this book by a colleague. Here is some context for my appreciation of the book: 01 The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (C/JCS) once BANNED all powerpoint presentations, for two reasons. First, because …
John McAfee vows to make Internet ‘impossible to hack’ By Dan Nakaso dnakaso@mercurynews.com >Posted: 09/24/2013 05:38:37 PM PDT | Updated: a day ago SAN JOSE — Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, who buried himself in the sand to hide from police in Belize, faked a heart attack in a Guatemalan detention center and …
