Robert Steele: PhD Proposal

As part of this endeavor, a new annual conference is planned that will focus on M4IS2/OSE, and in passing, redefine both political science and the craft of intelligence as we go forward together. DOC (5 Pages):  2014-04-23 (3.8) PhD Research Proposal Robert David Steele Professional Site 2014 Research Proposal – Political Science Multi-Disciplinary Evidence-Based Sustainable …

Jean Lievens: Net Neutrality — Government Betraying the Public Trust?

Net neutrality: Is the Internet about to change? The FCC has applied ‘neutrality’ to its oversight of the Internet: Everyone’s data reaches the same audience in the same way. But the Internet’s gatekeepers, such as Verizon and Comcast, have been trying to reshape the federal regulatory landscape. The executive summary of the Federal Communications Commission‘s …

Berto Jongman: The Year the USA (Courts, NSA, Google) Broke the Internet

2014: The Year America Broke The Internet A recent decision by a US Appeals court ended the regulation of the internet as we know it. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was deemed to have created a framework for ensuring the concept of “net neutrality” out-with the remit for the organisation it created itself. Now, a …

Contributors

Below are listed recurring authors. One-time authors are easily searched for by name. Alias & Collective 4TH MEDIA – Anti-Empire Tough Love Truths from Varied Contributors BOOP, Betty – Serving Male Officer with  Sense of Humor BUCKY 2.0 – Dave Buck, Robert Steele, Frank Wennin, Alan Yelsey and Others DEFDOG – Serving Officer and Closet …

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 …