Winslow Wheeler: John Saven on the Navy’s New Class of Floating Pigs

Among the examples of more expensive hardware providing less capability is the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. John Sayen addresses the matter with specifics in a new piece at Time’s Batteland blog.  John is a friend, colleague and a co-author in the anthology America’s Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for President Obama …

Search: why is india not a muslim country

हिंदी का उपयोग कर गूगल दूसरे स्तंभ के शीर्ष पर अनुवाद करने के लिए अनुवाद. India is not a “Muslim” country only because it is the most complex country on the planet.  India has the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and before Pakistan.  Nigeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey are the …

Search: osint tools for data collection

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is predominantly a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) endeavor.  The US Government (USG) has not only failed to be serious about OSINT (and thereby deliberately foresaken all possibilities of doing intelligence with integrity for Whole of Government), but it appears to have eliminated all possibilities for OSINT progress by eliminating all positions with …

Search: solutions for prosperous world UPDATED to include readings & contact info

Updated 29 October 2012 to include frequent search request “readings about solutions for a prosperous world” also added skype and email contact info New integrated search term:  readings about solutions for a prosperous world The proven process of intelligence is not secret, not federal, and not expensive.  Thinking is free.  What matters is the strategic …

Michel Bauwens: When Growth Outpaces Happiness (Corrupt Mis-Appropriation of the Benefits of Growth)

When Growth Outpaces Happiness CHINA’s new leaders, who will be anointed next month at the Communist Party’s 18th National Congress in Beijing, might want to rethink the Faustian bargain their predecessors embraced some 20 years ago: namely, that social stability could be bought by rapid economic growth. As the recent riots at a Foxconn factory …

Reflections on Inspectors General

Short URL:  http://tinyurl.com/Steele-IG Executive Reading (Printable 10-Pages): 2013 Steele Reflections on Inspectors-General 1.7 Updated 6 October 2012 Version 1.7 When I was selected for an interview to be the Defense Intelligence Senior Leader (DISL) for Human Intelligence (HUMINT) at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), it was General Ron Burgess, USA  and Ms. Tish Long that …

Mini-Me: CIA Loses Official Cover Site in Benghazi — No Plan B + RECAP

Huh? Deadly Attack in Libya Was Major Blow to C.I.A. Efforts By ERIC SCHMITT, HELENE COOPER and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON — The attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans has dealt the Central Intelligence Agency a major setback in its intelligence-gathering efforts at a time of increasing …