Reflections on Alternative Command & Control and Four Transformation Forcing Concepts

I have been reflecting on the past twenty years, and the remarkable resistence of the US Intelligence Community, seemingly impervious to all manner of reform recommendations, be they presidential, congressional, or public.  Reform is not transformation.  This from Dr. Russell Ackoff, a pioneer in systems thinking and reflexive practice: Reformations and transformations are not the …

INTERVIEW: Open Everything – with Robert David STEELE Vivas UPDATED to Add Parts V and VI

Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas David Balaban Privacy PC, April 2-8, 2013 PART I  Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas This section open with Mr. Steele’s thoughts on CIA and CIA IT. PART II:  Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas. Part 2 This section of …

Review: Internet-Based Intelligence in Public Health Emergencies – Early Detection and Response in Disease Outbreak Crises

Editors Mordini, E., Green, M. Pub. date March 2013Pages 160 Binding softcoverVolume 105 of NATO Science for Peace and Security Series – E: Human and Societal Dynamics ISBN 978-1-61499-174-8Subject Computer & Communication Sciences, Security & Terrorism, Social Sciences Momentous social events result from the sum of micro-level changes in daily individual life, and by observing …

Chuck Spinney: The Economist Backs Off on Climate Change

The below report in The Economist highlights the controversies overtaking the consensus position on human-induced global warming in climate science. IMO, it is balanced; indeed, in many ways, it might even be construed as being slightly biased toward the consensus pro-warming position.  This report does not, for example, disucss the cosmic ray hypothesis of the …

Review: Global Trends 2030 – Alternative Worlds [Paperback, Well Priced]

National Intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI/NIC) 3.0 out of 5 stars $75 Billion a Year and This is the Poster Child for the Public, March 26, 2013 Certainly worth reading, along with other and generally better reports linked below, but a huge disappointment. There is nothing here actually useful to …

2007 Earth Intelligence Network — Authors, Books, Centers, Forecasts

Earth Intelligence Network SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/EIN-Experts Cited Authors Ranked by Mary Ellen Bates Using File 7 (Social Science Citation Index) at Dialog.  Books selected and most reviewed by Robert Steele.  Centers and Forecasts developed by Winston Maike (RIP).  Pending migration the original postings of authors, books, and centers can be seen at  Global Challenges and …

2007 Winston Maike — In Memory — EIN Topic Summaries & Forecasts

Winston Maike (RIP) was the earliest adopter of the OSS.Net concepts and contributed in many ways over the years from 1993 onwards.  He corrected the Latin in the first motto, E Vertiate Potens (From Truth, We the People Are Made Powerful), and was the principal mind and drafter of the Earth Intelligence Network topic summaries …