Patrick Meier: Learning from Conservation UAV Campaigns — with Comment on 21st Century Neighborhood Watch, Alternative ISR, Citizen Intelligence

What Humanitarians Can Learn from Conservation UAVs I recently joined my fellow National Geographic Emergency Explorer colleague Shah Selbe on his first expedition of SoarOcean, which seeks to leverage low-cost UAVs for Ocean protection. Why did I participate in an expedition that seemingly had nothing to do with humanitarian response? Because the conservation space is well …

Review (Guest): Intelligence for Earth – Clarity, Diversity, Integrity & Sustainability

5.0 out of 5.0 Stars One visionary’s way out of the Corporate Feudalism/International Conflict trap By Herbert L Calhoun on April 1, 2014 In this book, the author, drawing extensively on his intelligence and military background, has cleanly written an easy to follow book, that outlines a careful course of action for developing a new …

Worth a Look: Wings for Peace – First Book on Air Power in UN Operations

Wings for Peace Ships in July 2014 Edited by A. Walter Dorn, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada Series : Military Strategy and Operational Art Air power for warfighting is a story that’s been told many times. Air power for peacekeeping and UN enforcement is a story that desperately needs to be told. For the …

Graphic: UN and eight tribes of information–intelligence

Improved Graphic Forthcoming as Figure 17.2 in Robert Steele, “Peace from Above: Envisioning the Future of UN Air Power,” in Walter Dorn (ed), UN Aviation Past, Present, Future (2014). See Also: 2012 Robert Steele: Practical Reflections on UN Intelligence + References & Reviews + UN RECAP Updated

Rob Dover & Robert Steele: Intelligence and National Strategy? Rethinking Intelligence – Seven Barriers to Reform

PDF (15 Pages): Dover Steele PSA April 2014 Dover, R & Steele, RD (2014) Intelligence and National Strategy? Rethinking Intelligence: Seven Barriers to Reform, Paper presented the UK Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester (14 Arpil 2014). ROBERT STEELE: An Open Source Agency would be helpful but I was naive to expect the US IC …