Erik Kleinsmith: Fake News and Data Mining: Mapping Today’s Media for Intel Analysis

Fake News and Data Mining: Mapping Today’s Media for Intel Analysis Whatever your take on the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it is becoming obvious that one of the biggest losers of the campaign was the mainstream media. After generations of relying upon newspapers and network news to tell us what is going on in the …

Robert Steele: Is Blaming the Russians a Desperate Attempt to Cover Up US Intelligence Community Routine Spying on US Politicians Including the President?

Completely apart from Deep State – Two-Party Tyranny – Wall Street machinations against Donald Trump, the legitimately elected next President of the United States of America, the current efforts of the US Intelligence Community to blame the Russians for hacking the election are in my view a desperate attempt to distract everyone from the fact …

Patrick Tucker: Original Flynn – Open Source Flynn

The Other Michael Flynn This new greater emphasis on open-source data aided by computational analysis discomfited older, less technically astute intelligence professionals at DIA and in the broader intelligence community, McCulloh said. “What that does is it largely disqualifies a lot of old intel guys in favor of people who have more technical skills. That was not …

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part III in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Robert David Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the third of three monographs focused on …

Robert Steele: Reflections on China, Open Source, & the Craft of Intelligence UPDATE 1

The below article is important to those thinking about open source software in Europe: Why China is the next proving ground for open source software The article, from TechRepublic, focuses on the Chinese taking the lead in open source software related to big data infrastructure.  “China scale” is a term that should be noted. My …