Worth A Look: Posted from the Past Including Jack Davis on Leadership in Intelligence Analysis

1993 War and Peace in the Age of Information–Superintendent’s Guest Lecture, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) 1994 ACCESS: The Theory and Practice of Competitor Intelligence (Journal of the Association for Global Strategic Information, July 1994) 1994 Private Enterprise Intelligence: It’s Potential Contribution to National Security (Canada, 29 October 1994) 1995 Open Sources and the Virtual Intelligence …

Search: smart nation intelligence reform electoral reform national security reform

Lovely to see a search like this.  Here are the core references and then a comment and then a number of other references, but the reality is that this entire website is about creating a smart nation, and world brain, and four reforms: electoral, intelligence, governance, and national security. Afterthought:  all the references from the …

Search: Multinational Engagement (Intelligence)

The Oxymoronic Concept of ‘NATO Intelligence’ In 2008, a FOIA request resulted in the release of a (redacted) version of a 1984 CIA article: NATO Intelligence: A Contradiction in Terms. The report is pretty scathing: “Since its inception, NATO has essentially opted out of the intelligence business. The command structure is almost totally innocent of any …

Call for Papers: Deadline 31 Dec 09 Nature-Inspired Collective Intelligence in Theory and Practice

Special Issue on: NATURE-INSPIRED COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Call for papers – Special issue: Data Mining for Software Trustworthiness Call for Papers – Special Issue: Virtual Agent and Organization Modeling: Theory and Applications? Call for papers – Special issue: Nature Inspired Collective Intelligence Call for papers – Special Issue on BIO-INSPIRED AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE …

Search: Counterintelligence & Capitalism

Great search!  We’ve been thinking recently about writing a piece on Strategic Counterintelligence that begins with Sun Tzu’s guidance to “know oneself.”  Your search is encouraging.  It boils down to one word: INTEGRITY.  The problem emerges when we fail to invest in education (as opposed to rote Weapons of Mass Instruction), this ultimate produces a …