Journal: Joe Mazzafro, USN (Ret), on IC Performance

How Should We Measure Intelligence Community Performance?, by Joseph Mazzafro. As the Congress and the DC dignitary debate if health care is affordable given the nation’s first trillion dollar annual debit incursion, I am wondering where the money would come from should the United States need to defend its national interests against another Al Qaeda …

Journal: Iran, Sacred Nukes, & US Ignorance

When Nukes Become Sacred The psychology behind Iranian support for the country’s nuclear program Newsweek, Sharon Bagley, 8 January 2010 With sacred values, this cost-benefit calculus is turned on its head, explains anthropologist Scott Atran of the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, who has studied Islamic terrorist groups. When Atran asked Palestinians if …

Robert Steele: Reflections on Cyber-Integrity & Why We Suck At It . . .

Cyber-Integrity – Is Bad Code the Horseshoe Nail that Costs Us Everything? CIA created the Artificial Intelligence Staff (OIT/AIS) around me in 1986. I quickly learned that all code lacked documentation and was full of holes. By 1994 I was the invited opening speaker for Hackers on Planet Earth, invited to join the Silicon Valley …

J. C. Cole: American Gray Swans – June 2020 — Bye Bye American Billionaires!

American Gray Swans – June 2020 Bye Bye American Billionaires! If you know the famous song by Don McLean – American Pie from the 1970’s, sorry I had to ad-lib a little to make the point. So Bye Bye American Billionaires! I drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them …