Journal: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s Preemptive Damage Control [Manipulation of Anticipated Negative Information]

By Robert Haddick August 2009 After appointing Gen. Stanley McChrystal the new commander in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave him two months to write an analysis of the situation there in yet another review of U.S. strategy. But after rumors leaked out that McChrystal would ask for another increase in U.S. troops, it appears …

Journal: Health Care 101 and the Implosion of Washington

Below are links to two stories on health care, both offering strong points of view, neither being completely accurate or particularly coherent in stratgic analytic terms. Health Care 101: Health Care is a four-part affair, and any policy proposal that fails to address all four parts is unaffordable, unsustainable, and a betrayal of the public …

Honour Society: Chapter Creation and Affiliation

Phi Beta Iota is an Epoch B organization in which individual membership and chapter affiliation are free and the global virtual network thrives on the basis of information-sharing, aggregate sense-making, and trust. Below are three depictions: Collective Intelligence (Humanities side of the World Brain) and Cognitive Science (Science side of the World Brain) Organizational Intelligence …

Graphic: Strategy for a Prosperous World at Peace

This graphic, devised by Robert Steele, illustrates the logic of achieving a prosperous world at peace thorugh the combination of open information and total integrity.  Clicking on the steps leads to the UN briefing.  Clicking on the frog below left leads to the latest technical briefing while frog right goes to the UNICEF “Open Everything” …