ADMIN CRS Update 10 April 2015

The below newly-acquired Congressional Research Service (CRS) have been received from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and are now catalogued and accessible here.

Berto Jongman: General Breedlove is Dr. Strangelove?

Being read in Europe. Breedlove’s Bellicosity: Berlin Alarmed by Aggressive NATO Stance on Ukraine US President Obama supports Chancellor Merkel’s efforts at finding a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. But hawks in Washington seem determined to torpedo Berlin’s approach. And NATO’s top commander in Europe hasn’t been helping either. Sources in the Chancellery have …

Review (Guest): Lords of Secrecy – The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare

Scott Horton 5 out of 5 Stars. Excessive control that is out of control . . . By Still Singin’ on February 16, 2015 LORDS OF SECRECY is one of the finest books I’ve read on national security “creep.” Scott Horton manages to retain at least some distance from obvious bias, but some of the …

Review: Before the First Shots are Fired – How America Can Win or Lose Off the Battlefield

Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz Foreign Politics Beyond the Beltway By Andrew Lubin on September 6, 2014 Today’s foreign policy world seems like the bad old days of American indecision under Jimmy Carter; the Israel-Hamas war, Putin annexed the Crimea, President Obama’s red-lines in Syria are repeatedly ignored, and the Americans killed in Iraq seem …

2014 Robert Steele Answers to Richard Olivier on 21st Leadership with Annotated Bibliography & Links

2014 ANSWERS Robert Steele to Richard Olivier of Findhorn on Leadership for the 21st Century • What do 21st century leaders need to know and who do they need to be? • How can we develop these capacities? • What, on a systemic level, is blocking the needed leadership evolution? • What is missing from …