Marcus Aurelius: Benghazi Threat Flashing Red — Still No Answers — CIA and Pentagon Getting a Free Pass

For those who may not have been following, article below is a pretty good high level summary of what happened in Benghazi on 11 Sep 2012.  To date, I am aware of two official reports issued on the incident:  one by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee and an internal one by State …

Berto Jongman: NDU on Strategic Hybrid Threats

Thinking About Strategic Hybrid Threats – In Theory and in Practice By Frank J. Cilluffo and Joseph R. Clark Abstract As the United States resets in the wake of previous security challenges and assesses future dangers, the risks posed by strategic hybrid threats deserve increased contemplation and deliberation. This article presents a new theoretical framework …

Berto Jongman: Algeria Fronting for US in Fabricating Al Qaeda Threat and Legitimizing US Military Occupation of Sahara?

Only noticed now, two years old, but makes more sense now with Mali and Niger in play. Al-Qaeda in the Sahel Jeremy Keenan explains how a Saharan front in the ‘global war on terror’ was fabricated. Jeremy Keenan AlJazeera, 29 Aug 2010 In November 2009, Richard Barrett of the UN’s al-Qaeda-Taliban monitoring team said that …

Graphic: UN 6 OSINT Relevance to UN Ten High-Level Threats

Economic and Social Threats, including 95% 01 Poverty 99% 02 Infectious Disease 95% 03 Environmental Degradation (includes Climate Change) 90% 04 Inter-State Conflict 75% Internal-Conflict, including 90% 05 Civil War 80% 06 Genocide 95% 07 Other Large-Scale Atrocities 95% 08 Proliferation of nuclear, radiological, chemical, and biological weapons (many would add small arms as well) …

DefDog: Wired on NYPost Being Retarded – Homework in Class on Terrorism a Threat to National Security – Comment by Robert Steele

NY Post Pisses Its Pants Over Terrorism Homework; And You Should Too Ryan Singel WIRED, 29 October 2012 The New York Post is quivering in fear and outrage over a graduate level course for intelligence analysts that requires students to write a fake terrorism plot, complete with methods of execution, sources of funding, number of …