Y Combinator Hacker News Community’s Model for Info-Sharing & Potential for Collective Intelligence

“Hacker News” has a welcome page and guidelines page offering an overview of what the organizers expect from those planning on posting comments and why it’s good overall for the community.  I (Jason Liszkiewicz) was impressed with this. Hacker News has a solid number of participants and provides a simple and mature format for exploring …

Search (2): nato j-2 intelligence; un intelligence

We spent too much time creating a 33-page consolidated reference work to address these related searches.  It is very incomplete and needs to be accompanied by 00 Remixed Review Lists (70). The single best place to begin remains: Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

NATO on YouTube: Selective Summaries (5)

NATO You-Tube Front Page Phi Beta Iota Summary: Where should NATO go on out-of-area expeditionary operations?  How does NATO define security & stability?  How does NATO achieve balance between territorial defense and expeditionary operations, and between the voice of the big nations and the small nations?  What is defense?  What is 360 degree defense in …

Worth a Look: Transformation Through Education & Training–NATO’s Emergent Approach

Education and training NATO conducts education and training to ensure its forces are effective and interoperable, as part of its cooperation with non-member countries, and as part of NATO-led operations. Historically, NATO education and training has been focused on ensuring that military forces from member countries can work together effectively in operations and missions. Today, …

Journal: Shoot the Messenger–Not the Originators

Phi Beta Iota: With the utmost respect for both the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (C/JCS) and the Secretary of Defense (SecDef), their “outrage” is nonsense–nothing more than political theater.  On BBC, the moderately intelligent evening news, this is right up there with the French mom who murdered eight babies. 1.  The Taliban …