Open Membership

The above is a depiction of the free card that can be printed off and laminated by anyone.  Click on the card to reach a printable version with instructions for trimming and  lamination.  A French version will be posted shortly, and then other languages as they appear.  Giving your card away over and over is …

Reference: Congressional Research Service Report on Congress as a Consumer of Intelligence Information

Below is a very important report that focuses primarily on Congress as a consumer of SECRET information.  The report has yet to be written on Congressional needs for decision-support (intelligence) that is unclassified and can be shared with constituents, the press, and the private sector being regulated and taxed. Click on the Frog to see …

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 …

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 …