Journal: Integrity, Afghanistan, & The White House

SMALL WARS JOURNAL This Week at War: America’s Last Counterinsurgent? McChrystal report unwittingly slays counterinsurgency doctrine September 25, 2009 Robert Haddock This summer the U.S. government has faced a deteriorating crisis in Afghanistan. Such crises tend to force policymakers to face up to the facile assumptions they have previously made. Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s report to …

Journal: Steele on Integrity and the Secretary of Defense Specifically

In the notional conversation below,  Robert Steele first defends the Secretary of Defense in the context of a White House that is insanely criminal or criminally insane, and then outlines the other position, one rooted in the Constitution and the inviolate nature of Integrity as the foundation for a Republic Of, By, and For We …

Journal: Markle Foundation Focuses on Lack of Information–We Focus on Lack of Integrity

Nation At Risk: Policy Makers Need Better Information to Protect the Country For all the nation has invested in national security in the last several years, we remain vulnerable to terrorist attack and emerging national security threats because we have not adequately improved our ability to know what we know about these threats. Phi Beta …

Worth a Look: Available for Pre-Order at Amazon INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability

From the Amazon Page: Review Constantly committed to truth and honesty [this work] demonstrates his ability to grasp the real issues and to take into account the views and concerns of men of good will from all nations and all cultures. –Admiral Pierre Lacoste, French Navy (Retired), Former Director of Foreign Intelligence (DGSE) Robert Steele …

Graphic: Integrity in All Respects

The lack of leadership integrity, combined with the information asymmetries and data pathologies that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is culturally and intellectually unable to address, leave the U.S. Government operating on 2% of the relevant information, providing the President with 4%, “at best” according to General Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret) of what he needs, …

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Corporate Lack of Integrity or Intelligence or Both

Corporate Lack of Integrity or Intelligence or Both Review (Guest): Liar’s Poker–Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street Review: Bad Money–Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism Review: Corporate Irresponsibility–America’s Newest Export Review: Fast Food Nation–The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Review: Global Capitalism–Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth …