Marcus Aurelius: BREAKING – Defense to Protect Hardware Contracts, Savage the People

There is lot of stuff flying around Pentagon these days.  There is memo that underlies article next below but I haven’t seen it yet, trying to get from Sister service.  Irrespective of your opinion of  publication, this might be very good week to buy  current Army Times (12 Aug 2013) because it has some data and …

Marcus Aurelius: Media Common Sense on Defense — Still Lacking on Substance

Following is stunning, coming as it does from the left-wing newspaper we called “Pravda on the Potomac” during the Cold War.) Two op-eds from mainstream media follow; both discuss need for Legislative and Executive Branches of the USG to get their [sierra] together and serve the national interest. Washington Post, August 4, 2013, Pg. 18 …

Rickard Falkvinge: Swarmwise Chapter Seven

Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Seven Swarm Management: Following a high-profile event, your swarm just tripled in size in a week. You have twenty thousand new activists — new colleagues — that are all waiting for instructions from you, personally. They’re waiting for instructions from you because your name is the …

Preston James: White House About to Go Public on extraterrestrials?

Secret Space War V: Exopolitics Veterans Today, 22 July 2013 Recently there have been well founded rumors that the USG is now in the process of setting up an official Office for Exopolitics and considering several esteemed individuals from which to choose a director to run this new office. Exopolitics is the official, public admission …

Alessandro Politi: Global Outlook 2013 from the Military Centre for Strategic Studies, Ministry of Defence, Italy

This is the first-ever MoD short-term forecast and global vision (in its 67 year history). GLOBAL OUTLOOK 2013 PDF:  2013-06 Italian MOD Global Forecast Executive Summary The next two years will be marked more by power vacuums and gaps than by a reassuring graceful degradation of the world order or by the rise of new …

Chuck Spinney: Boeing Implosion a Case Study in Integrity Lost — Specific Decisions Leading to Plastic Flammable Planes with Explosive Batteries

Two and one-half years ago, on 11 February 2011, Pierre Sprey and I posted a blog entry on the Blaster, Why is Boing Imploding?.  This post is still the fourth most popular since I began the website in 2008.  It describes how the corrosive practices of the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) spill …

Berto Jongman: Activity Based Intelligence — with NSA-NGA Merger Coming Along Nicely

Activity-Based Intelligence Uses Metadata to Map Adversary Networks Gabriel Miller Defense News, 8 July 2013 Few outside the intelligence community had heard of activity-based intelligence until December, when the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency awarded BAE Systems $60 million to develop products based on this newish methodology. But ABI, which focuses not on specific targets but …