The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
There are 6 billion cell phone subscriptions worldwide There are now almost as many cell phone subscriptions as people. A new report on global technology development by the International Telecommunication Union found that there were 6 billion mobile subscriptions at the end of 2011 — 7 billion people inhabit Earth. China and India each have …
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Escaping Excessive Dependence on Technical Intelligence Speaking at the GEOINT 2012 Symposium (09 October), Director of National Intelligence (DNI) General James Clapper (USAF ret.) argued that the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other U.S. citizens in Benghazi, Libya caught the U.S. by surprise because the attacks did not “emit or discuss …
This also applies at the operational, tactical, and technical levels; generally the 80-20 rules applies–80% open, 20% closed. It merits comment that no one is actually producing Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) as a holistic persistent element of decision-making, nor is most secret “intelligence” actually intelligence –it is just classified information. To qualify as OSINT one …
Today I had the pleasure of sitting down for a second time with Dr. Greg Newby, director of one of America’s top supercomputing centers, this one in Alaska and operated by the University of Alaska. He has some ideas about Arctic information collection, prcoessing, analysis, and SHARING that are breath-taking; I attribute this in part …
The Military’s New Challenge: Knowing What They Know by Chris Young Harvard Business Review | 2:00 PM September 20, 2012 For soldiers in the field, immediate access to — and accurate interpretation of — real-time imagery and intelligence gathered by drones, satellites, or ground-based sensors can be a matter of life and death. Capitalizing on …
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The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing By: Rob van Kranenburg Rob van Kranenburg outlines a brief history of the next big thing–the internet of things–and argues that U.S. industry and government should be taking a more active role in its evolution. About a decade ago, I would …
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele21 Sample entries are carried here — for all others see the index pages. This web site is unique as a historical record of all that was published going back to 1988 (by over 800 authorities), all of which has been ignored by the US Government particularly, other governments generally, because public intelligence …
