The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Timely and pathbreaking, Securing the Peace is the first book to explore the complete spectrum of civil war terminations, including negotiated settlements, military victories by governments and rebels, and stalemates and ceasefires. Examining the outcomes of all civil war terminations since 1940, Monica Toft develops a general theory of postwar stability, showing how third-party guarantees …
Sewage runs, garbage piles up at Haiti quake camps PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A child squats to defecate yards away from a sidewalk where women press plantain into bite-sized pieces for frying and a naked toddler plays with a pile of rice on the filthy ground. Nearby, a dead body has been dumped on the street, …
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CIA and Intelligence Community Mythologies Saturday 23 January 2010 by: Melvin A. Goodman It is time for serious soul-searching regarding the role of the CIA and the intelligence community. Last month’s operational and intelligence failures led to the deaths of seven CIA officers in Afghanistan and might have resulted in nearly 300 deaths on a …
23 January 2010 The New Face of the Human Terrain System: Goin’ to Kansas City on 1 April 2010 by John Stanton US Army Human Terrain System (HTS) principals recently produced a number of briefings adding up to a total of 133-pages of MS PowerPoint slides. For convenience sake here, we’ll use the title of …
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In Need of Port Repairs, Haiti Relocating 400,000 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian officials are planning a massive relocation of 400,000 people from makeshift camps to the outskirts of the capital as the U.S. government tackles repairs to the damaged main port — dual efforts to help residents survive the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake. The …
This is both a very intelligent search and a very funny search. CIA and the rest of the IC do not have a “method” because they do not do “learning” in the classical sense. It is virtually all “on the job” training and the culture across the board is one of hubris as in “we …
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IC’s Language, Linguistic Shortfalls Under Scrutiny by Anthony L. Kimery Thursday, 21 January 2010 The IC still has important pockets of critical intelligence analysis that continue to suffer. The rank and file analysts at the CIA, NSA and elsewhere throughout the Intelligence Community (IC) are patriotic, dedicated … hardworking. But they have long been hampered …
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