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Books: Intelligence for Peace (PKI Book Two) Finalizing

INTELLIGENCE for PEACE: Multinational, Multifunctional Information-Sharing and Sense-Making, edited by Col Jan-Inge Svensson, SE (Ret), the foremost authority and educator on peace intelligence and the use of unclassified decisions support, goes to the printer on or about 1 December 2009. This is the sequel to PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future. Anyone wishing to …

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EUCOM Week in Review Ending 5 August 2009

Hot Topics AA: Season of Travesties: Freedom & Democracy 07/31/09 AZ: Azerbaijani government permits to stop currency import/export in … 07/30/09 GE: South Ossetia one year on: Georgians wait in fear for Russians to… 08/01/09 GE: The News in Brief 08/04/09 IL: Candidly speaking: End the blood libels against Israel & the IDF 08/03/09 IL: Netanyahu Sister-in-Law Arrested at …

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Journal: Washington State Privatizes All-Source Fusion Center Intelligence

Washington Joint Analytical Center Seattle private intelligence outsourcing, 1525 pages, 2006-200 July 26, 2009 Summary This confidential 1525 page scanned file (61Mb, PDF) is notable for its comprehensive insight into the revolving door world of public-private intelligence in the United States and attempts by the Washington State Patrol to privatize its “criminal intelligence” function. The …

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Journal: Marcus Aurelius Flags “The Class Too Dumb to Quit”

Our policy is to point to the original full sotry online whenever the source offers a persistent URL that does not require registration.  Below are extracts from Tom Friedman’s “The Class Too Dumb to Quit,” as flagged by Marcus Aurelius, pseudonym for a Special Operations officer with decades of HUMINT abroad. EXTRACTS: This scene is …

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The Contested Commons

Michele Flournoy and Shawn Brimley U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings July 2009 Vol. 135/7/1,277 Two officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense look at a changing and challenging world and what it means for the future of American power. The world is undergoing a profound and lasting shift in the relative balance of power …

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