AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 30 Nov 09

Hot Topics AA: Mercenary Mann says South Africa backed coup plot 11/29/09 AA: Are SA mercenaries assisting Guinea’s military junta? 11/26/09 AO: Angola: Armed forces reiterate support for public health services 11/26/09 CD: DR Congo appeals for arrest of FDLR leaders in Western countries 11/26/09 ET: Ethiopia’s Human Rights Reports presented to the African Commission …

CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 28 Nov 09

Hot Topics AA: German minister resigns over airstrike in Afghanistan 11/27/09 AA: Organized crime in the Caucasus 11/28/09 AA: Tajikistan urges compromise on power grid with Uzbekistan 11/25/09 AA: International patience with Iran is “running out” 11/27/09 AE: Assessing fallout of Dubai’s credit disaster 11/27/09 AF: NATO Forces Find Crash Site of Helicopter in Afghanistan …

Search: Strategic Analytic Model

A Strategic Analytic Model is the non-negotiable first step in creating Strategic Intelligence, and cascades downto also enable Operational, Tactical, and Technical Intelligence. The most relevant strategic analytic model to our purposes is the one inspired by the United Nations High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change.  Their report,  A More Secure World–Our Shared …

Review: Ecological Intelligence–How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything (Hardcover)

From 4 to Five for Gifted Story and Amazon Price Cut November 29, 2009 Daniel Goleman I chose this book over Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature and seeing the author’s note about this other book “by a physician, Jungian analyst, and poet” am certain I made the right choice. The author’s “big idea” is …