Search: oss press cammaert

Generally Word Press search, which updates constantly, is much better with simpler searches.  Searching only for cammaert produces the following hits that we have resorted in relative order of value (Wrod Press delivers in reverse chronological order).  General Patrick Cammaert, RN NL (Ret) is the best qualified person we know to be the first Assistant-Secretary …

Worth a Look: Eight Books on Securing the Peace and the New Meme “Responsibility to Protect”

Timely and pathbreaking, Securing the Peace is the first book to explore the complete spectrum of civil war terminations, including negotiated settlements, military victories by governments and rebels, and stalemates and ceasefires. Examining the outcomes of all civil war terminations since 1940, Monica Toft develops a general theory of postwar stability, showing how third-party guarantees …

Review: Peace–A History of Movements and Ideas

An Utterly Superb Intellectual Contribution–a Major New Reference January 10, 2010 David Cortright This book is a gift to humanity, a foundational reference of such extraorindary value that I earnestly believe it should be required reading for every single liberal arts program in the world, and used as a core book in all graduate international …

Review: Power & Responsibility–Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threat

Bubba Book January 6, 2010 Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual, Stephen John Stedman EDIT of 7 Jan 09.  I got halfway through another book last night and now understand the Princeton-based idea that the US has enough power to demand changes and that earlier “balance of power” constraints might not apply.  On the one hand, this …

Search: United Nations Intelligence Training

INTELLIGENCE is DECISION-SUPPORT.  The process of intelligence is separate from whether the sources and methods are secret or not.  There is nothing secret, unethical, or illegal about the process of intelligence as decision-support. Original “Class Before One” (2010 Class 001 in Planning) 2007 United Nations “Class Before One” Infomation-Sharing and Analytics Orientation Other references:

Worth a Look: First Ever UN Joint Military Analysis Centre Course (October 2009)

First UN Joint Mission Analyses Centre Course (UNJMAC) ever held The last seven days of October have been groundbreaking and interesting at Nodefic. A new course has been born and introduced to life. Text: Maj Erik Haugstad Tasked by the UN, and in close cooperation with other NORDCAPS countries, a pilot course for personnel going …