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2012/03/252012/03/25

Marcus Aurelius: Breaking Faith – Keep the F-35 Flush the People

In my capacity as a private citizen, I invite your attention to attached Torchbearer Alert from the Association of the United States Army, the Army’s private, non-Governmental, professional association. It describes in clear and simple terms the “screw job” that the Administration and Department of Defense propose to deliver to those military personnel who have retired, …

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2012/03/252012/03/25

Search: strategic modeling for government spending

Search as is: 2008 Rebalancing the Instruments of National Power (Full Text Online for Google Translate) My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence Human in the Loop Result: Search: Strategic Analytic Model Phi Beta Iota: No one does this correctly for multiple reasons. Tracking dollar inputs or dollar outputs is virtually useless as …

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2012/03/232012/03/23

WInslow Wheeler: Congress Blows on the F-35

What I learned from the HASC hearing on the F-35 this past Tuesday is described below in a piece at Time’s Batteland blog. Predictably, aside from the new GAO testimony, the subcommittee exposed nothing, except about itself. There is a possible way out of the non-oversight mess, but I doubt there is any interest in …

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2012/03/202012/03/20

Patrick Meier: Twitter, Early Warning, Small Data Matters More

Twitter, Crises and Early Detection: Why “Small Data” Still Matters My colleagues John Brownstein and Rumi Chunara at Harvard University’s HealthMap project are continuing to break new ground in the field of Digital Disease Detection. Using data obtained from tweets and online news, the team was able to identify a cholera outbreak in Haiti weeks before health officials acknowledged the problem publicly. …

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2012/03/16

Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping Climate Change, Conflict, Aid in Africa

Crisis Mapping Climate Change, Conflict and Aid in Africa I recently gave a guest lecture at the University of Texas, Austin, and finally had the opportunity to catch up with my colleague Josh Busby who has been working on a promising crisis mapping project as part of the university’s Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS). Josh and …

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2012/03/062012/03/07

DefDog: Jim Clapper On Way Out? + RECAP

Surprise, surprise…..such a disaster it could be a blessing in disguise…his replacement? General Flynn, the individual who said intel in Afghanistan was a failure…..and it is. DNI Jim Clapper Out in Fall? Rumor Mill Says Maybe Colin Clark WASHINGTON: Jim Clapper, the first Director of National Intelligence to order budget cuts across the intelligence community, …

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2012/03/052012/03/05

Winslow Wheeler: Drones Dead on Arrival

A Final Word on Drones and Reaper (doc 20 pages) A Final Word on Drones and Reaper Last week I distributed a five part series on drones, specifically the MQ-9 Reaper. It was published at Time Magazine’s Battleland blog. This last message on the series distributes each of the five parts and the entire paper as …

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