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Review (Guest): SALVAGING AMERICAN DEFENSE–The Challenge of Strategic Overstretch

Anthony H. Cordesman; with Paul S. Frederiksen and William D. Sullivan (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars Real Defense Exertise, December 22, 2010 By Retired Reader (New Mexico) – See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) Anthony Cordesman is by any rational measure an expert in defense, security, and intelligence issues. Virtually his entire career …

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Journal: Wind Power Boondoggle–and the Information Operations (IO) Challenge of Energy and Time in Relation to Policy, Acquisition, and Operations

My good friend Robert Bryce, author of the must-read Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future just launched this little torpedo. A Wind Power Boonedoggle T. Boone Pickens badly misjudged the supply and price of natural gas. By ROBERT BRYCE, Wall Street Journal, 22 December 2010 After 30 …

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Journal: CIA WikiLeaks Task Force (aka WTF, One Down From REMF)

CIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. cables’ exposure by WikiLeaks By Greg Miller Wednesday, December 22, 2010; 12:24 AM The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task …

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Event: 1100-1400 21 January McClean VA DNI Jim Clapper (1245) & EJ Kimball (1100) Speak

REGISTRATION FOR AFIO NATIONAL WINTER LUNCHEON FRIDAY, 21 January 2011 1 p.m. speaker The Honorable James R. Clapper, Jr. Director of National Intelligence Remarks are OFF THE RECORD 11 a.m. speaker E. J. KIMBALL Director, Government Relations Strategic Engagement Group, Jorge Scientific Corp., on this important, multi-author new book, Shariah: The Threat to America Check …

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Undersea Cables: The Achilles Heel of our Economies

Franz-Stefan Gady Foreign policy analyst, EastWest Institute Huffington Post, Posted: December 21, 2010 02:20 PM In December 2008 within milliseconds, Egypt lost 70 percent of its connection to the outside Internet. In far away India, 50 to 60 percent of online connectivity similarly was lost. In Pakistan, 12 million people were knocked offline suddenly, and …

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Reference: Private Military Corporations–A Non-State Actor-Nuclear Terror Nexus?

Private Military Corporations: A Non-State Actor-Nuclear Terror Nexus? Robert L. Brown Temple University August 16, 2010 Abstract: The risk of nuclear terrorism is hyped by some as possible and high consequence (Allison 2006) while others dismiss the strategy as too difficult and too risky for terrorist organizations (Jenkins 2008). However, analysts have no data from …

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