Journal: Washington Post Explains CIA Suicide in AF
The Washington Post (headline and link below) purports to explain how the CIA fell victim to a series of miscalculations that make it vulnerable to the devastating attack on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Chapman, a CIA base in Khost Province, Afghanistan, but it does not pass the smell test. Of course, coming from the Washington …
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Journal: Intelligence & Innovation Support to Strategy, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, & Acquisition
Chuck Spinney is still the best “real” engineer in this town–almost everyone else is staggering after fifty years of government-specification cost-plus engineering. Also, as Chuck explores in the piece on Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive we in the “requirements” business are as much to blame–Service connivance with complexity has killed acquisition from both a …
Graphic: Zero-Based “Clean Sheet” Needs Study
Journal: MILNET Selected Headlines
Taliban Overhaul Their Image In Bid To Win Allies Phi Beta Iota: We’ve known since 9/11 that the asymmetric war is also marked by an asymmetric excellence in public relations, propaganda and perception management–not only do our opponents spend $1 for every $500,000 to $5 million that we spend, but they are better at this …
Reference: Reverse TPFID for Haiti
TPFID (Time-Phased Force and Deployment Data) Reverse TPFID Sequence of Events: CAB 21 Sequence of Events as Previously Provided Embrace the Cubans as full partners Multinational Decision Support Center (MDSC) in Tampa or Quantico Grid the Island, Assign Zone Masters with Commercial Satellite Communications to Each Grid Square Execute Bottom-Up Needs-Driven Information-Driven Relief Effort as …
Journal: Haiti Public Intelligence Emergent
Google Maps updates with new Haiti pics: Hours-old satellite images show destruction Google has released a new KML overlay — tech speak for map layer — that includes fresh images of Port-au-Prince. According to GeoEye , the satellite imagery company that provided the photos, they were taken at 10:30 a.m. yesterday from a satellite 423 …
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