The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Settling An Intelligence Turf War By Walter Pincus Washington Post November 17, 2009 Pg. 29 Early last week, several long-festering bureaucratic issues that had arisen between Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair and CIA Director Leon Panetta had to be settled by national security adviser James L. Jones, through some Solomon-like decisions.
Kilcullen: Send either lots of troops or none at all November 12th, 2009 Some quick notes from Georgetown, where David Kilcullen has just addressed students and faculty at the Center for Peace and Security Studies. Highlights below: The oft-touted 1:50 (or 20:1,000) ratio is “flawed.” It was based on post-war reconstruction studies done by the …
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Phi Beta Iota: The US Intelligence Community (both civilian and military) still has not accepted the fact that 60% of its effort should be focused on Global Coverage (e.g. the Third World and the non-military high-level threats to humanity) and on relevant information and tailored intelligence necessary to support Stabilization & Reconstruction Operations as well …
Excellent Primer, Narrowly Focused, Provokes Reflection October 16, 2009 Richard Heinberg I was tempted to limit this book to four stars because it fails to properly recognize, among many others, Buckminster Fuller, e.g. his Critical Path and it provides only passing reference to such foundation works as Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update and Human …
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Recent (New) Reviews 201910930 NEW: Steele on Books & America: Love it or Lose it! FINAL & Published Robert Steele: Book Reviews (Trump Era) Robert Steele: Book Reviews US Populist Non-Violent Revolution (Spawned Trump, Will Create Post-Trump People Not Parties 2nd American Revolution?) Older Meta Briefings: 2014 Robert Steele Answers to Richard Olivier on 21st …
SHORT URL: https://tinyurl.com/USDI-OSINT I have sought to help USDI on multiple occasions, and failed every time. Here is the 2009 effort, with the assistance of Dr. Joseph Markowitz, who also failed to get CIA to take OSINT seriously. PPT (6 Pages): 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership Briefing PPT (18 Pages): 2009 DoD OSINT Staff Briefing Complete …
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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: July 25, 2009 After spending a week traveling the frontline of the “war on terrorism” — from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan in the seas off Iran, to northern Iraq, to Afghanistan and into northwest Pakistan — I can comfortably report the following: The bad guys are losing. Yes, …
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