The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
5 stars Compelling, Insightful, Useful – Glosses Over Some Fundamentals This book excels at offering a compelling overview of the severe deficiencies in US national security strategy, policy, and operations – it is one of the strongest indictments I have seen of our total inability to wage peace instead of war. Among the many high …
Robert Horn is a political scientist with a special interest in public policy, organizational strategy, and knowledge management. These days, he deals mostly with social messes. Social messes are more than complicated problems. I define them as tightly interconnected clusters of wicked problems and other messes. They are very complex; ambiguous; highly constrained; seen differently …
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Tightening the U.S. Grip on Western Europe Washington’s Iron Curtain in Ukraine by DIANA JOHNSTONE, COUNTERPUNCH, WEEKEND EDITION JUNE 6-8, 2014 NATO leaders are currently acting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron Curtain between Russia and the West.
The Fourth Frozen Zone Four months before the Boston Bombing I wrote Four Places You Have Not Heard Of. Yet., which contained a map that showed three of the four ‘frozen conflicts’ from the collapse of the Soviet Union, all in the Caucasus. These are Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and South Ossetia. The Marathon day bombing renewed …
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WO#D WorldOpenHashDesign WO#D Manifesto “The present day global set of sovereign states is not capable of keeping peace, and it is not capable of saving the biosphere’s non-replaceable natural resources. What has been needed for the last 5,000 years, has become technologically feasible in the last 100, but not yet politically, is a global body …
5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable, Substantive, Inspiring and a Bargain, February 24, 2014 I love this book. I received it as a gift and it is NOT “just a coffee table book.” This is a serious book, of very high quality in terms of both content and quality of construction. The photographs are superb, …
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Translating Lessons Learned in Colombia and Other Wars Among the People: Confronting the Spectrum of 21st Century Conflict by Max G. Manwaring Translating Lessons Learned in Colombia and Other Wars Among the People: Confronting the Spectrum of 21st Century Conflict Small Wars Journal, 27 August 2013 Beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort not as …
