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2012 Robert Steele Proposal for a World Brain Institute and Development of a Global Game

Proposal for a World Brain Institute and Development of a Global Game ·Transhumanism, December 26, 2012 [Editor’s Note: The World Brain was  proposed in collection of essays by H. G. Wells, wherein Wells describes his vision of the world brain: essentially a free, synthetic, universal, authoritative, and permanent “World Encyclopaedia” very much like today’s Wikipedia. Wells imagined this resource would help world …

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SchwartzReport: Global Religious Landscape

The Global Religious Landscape A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Major Religious Groups as of 2010 Executive Summary Geographic Distribution Living as Majorities and Minorities Young and Old About the Study Defining the Religious Groups Roadmap to the Report Worldwide, more than eight-in-ten people identify with a religious group. A comprehensive …

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Graphic: Religious Groups by Proportional Size

   Source   Phi Beta Iota: The report is severely deficient in failing to distinguish between Sunnis and Shi’ites, and between Catholics, conventional Protestants, and the Evangelicals and Pentecostalists.  That kind of granularity is essential to religious intelligence and counterintelligence.

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2007 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0

Now that everyone is paying attention, this is being posted in full text online in support of a larger M4IS2 / OSE dialog. Document:  Strategic OSINT (Chapter 6 in Strataegic Intelligence Vol 2) 10 MB Links added below throughout, updated where appropriate. See Also: 21st Century Intelligence Core References 2.0 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Robert …

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Review (Guest): Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Edited By: Paul B. Rich and Isabelle Duyvesteyn Routledge, 2012 Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 ‘counterinsurgency’ (COIN) has enjoyed a revival. The perceived failure of counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan has led to a ‘backlash’ principally by advocates of the use of conventional warfare against insurgents, …

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NIGHTWATCH: Analytic Overview of Eight Day Gaza Scuffle

Phi Beta Iota:  NIGHTWATCH is the gold standard for political-military analytics.  We doubt anyone now serving at CIA or DIA could have drafted this in one sitting without references.  Here is the key finding brought forward: This eight-day war is, thus, a turning point because Hamas, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, has proven it can strike …

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Chuck Spinney: Break Syria, Mali, Niger? Do We Really Want to Keep Making a Costly Mess?

NOVEMBER 12, 2012 An Era of Conflicts The New Political Map of the Middle East by PATRICK COCKBURN, Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/12/the-new-political-map-of-the-middle-east/ President Obama is lucky in his opponents, particularly when it comes to explaining why America’s influence is waning in the Middle East. The issue was hardly mentioned in the election, aside from a botched attempt …

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