Robert Steele: REVOLUTION NOW! Thinking About Revolution (Trump Revolution 23)

2011 THINKING ABOUT REVOLUTION Robert David Steele Intelligence Program, Marine Corps University, AY 1992-1993 Updated to Include Pre-Conditions of Revolution Graphic for USA Today (2011) Drawn from 1976 Thesis: Theory, Risk Assessment, and Internal War: A Framework for the Observation of Revolutionary Potential where all appropriate citations and data operationalizations can be found. Original As …

David Isenberg: The Cost-Savings Fantasy (Corruption) of Using Private Military Contractors

The Cost-Savings Fantasy David Isenberg Huffington Post, 9/15/2011 Sometimes it is difficult to decide what to write about in the world of private military and security contracting issues, as there are usually a few different stories in the news on any given day that are relevant. Today, however, I don’t have that problem as there …

Paul Fernhout: How Security Clearance Process Harms National Security by Eradicating Cognitive Diversity

This essay discusses how the USA’s security clearance process (mainly related to ensuring secrecy) may have a counter-productive negative effect on the USA’s national security by reducing “cognitive diversity” among security professionals. Background refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy Scott Page wrote an insightful book about the value of “cognitive diversity” in making effective groups, called The Difference: …