Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Analysis
Analysis & Problem-Solving Analytic Base Review: Information Productivity–Assessing Information Management Costs of U. S. Corporations Review: Information Proficiency–Your Key to the Information Age (Industrial Engineering) (Hardcover) Review: Intelligence Power in Peace and War Review: Intelligence Services in the Information Age Review: Power/Knowledge–Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 Review: Powershift–Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge …
Definitions: Emerging Taxonomy for Collective Intelligence
A converstion is developing that will lead to a taxonomy for collective intelligence in all its forms, including public intelligence. Below is a first effort by Tom Atlee that decisively corrects our preliminary conclusion that public intelligence was the umbrella term. Dear Robert, I guess I’m stuck on what seems to me the straight-forward simplicity …
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Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Jack Davis
PLATINUM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Jack Davis For over three decades, Jack Davis has been the heir to Sherman Kent and the mentor to all those who would strive to be the world’s most effective all-source intelligence analysts. As a Central Intelligence Agency analyst and educator, he combines intellect, integrity, insight, and an insatiable appetite for …
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2012 U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century: 450-Ship Navy, <24 Hours to Anywhere, Peace from the Sea -- Full Text Online
I wrote the original Somali piracy overview for US CENTCOM J-2P in 2005–no one wanted to take on the problem. A few years later I was told by both USSOCOM and Navy Irregular Warfare–I am not making this up–that the reason they did not take an interest at the time was that it was “not …
Review: Assessing the Tradecraft of Intelligence Analysis
Disappointing, Some Value, October 22, 2008
2008 Paradigms of Failure ELECTION 2008 – Lipstick on the Pig (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Paradigms of Failure Robert David STEELE Vivas Chapter in ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (Earth Intelligence Network, 2008) Original as Posted Full Text Online to Facilitate Automated Translation
