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2012/03/182012/03/18

Event: 27-28 March DC Affordable World Security Conference

Can be watched live and presumably after the fact via this page, online registration to watch live required, but there is no cost to register. http://affordableworldsecurity.org/live Tracks on economics, environment, humanity, technology, defense. The event is FREE subject to first come first serve ONLINE REGISTRATION. ABOUT AGENDA SPEAKERS VENUE WATCH LIVE MULTIMEDIA PRESS REGISTER Tip …

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2012/03/04

Event: 19-23 Mar Online Security Jam

The Security Jam 2012 – an open call for fresh thinking Op-Ed by Giles Merritt, Director, Security & Defence Agenda (SDA) Nobody doubts the speed with which the security challenges faced by western governments are changing. Nor the changing nature of security. The need for fresh thinking both from the military and from the wide …

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2012/02/27

DefDog: National Security versus National Well-Being

Although this is about India’s version and a year old, I fear that the issues they identify there also exist in ours, but to a much larger degree…. NCTC: National Confusion on Terror New Kerala, 2011 By South Asia Intelligence Review: The crisis in India today is one of capacities, and this cannot be addressed …

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2012/02/24

Reference: World Development Reform 2011 – Conflict, Security, & Development

More than 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by violent conflict. The World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Developmentexamines the changing nature of violence in the 21st century, and underlines the negative impact of repeated cycles of violence on a country or region’s development prospects. Preventing violence and building peaceful states that respond …

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2012/02/172012/10/28

Robert Steele: Transportation Security Agency as Poster Child for Doing Wrong Thing Righter

I travel enough to have a solid view of the Transportation Security Agency (TSA). They are good people trapped in a bad system. The article below is completely wrong in pressing forward with the meme of TSA as molestors of children and old people. TSA has a good heart, it just lacks a brain. TSA …

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2012/02/07

John Robb: When Security is Huge, Stupid, & Out of Control

Simple equation: A national security system that is mostly bloat and mission creep instead of real, honest to goodness, security + Badly design social media monitoring tools that are sifting through billions of messages a day? = FAILURE Here’s a simple example. A young British guy makes a tweet to his friends: Easy to discern …

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2012/01/282012/01/28

Berto Jongman: US National Supply Chain Security

US strategy with respect to supply chain security. PDF (16 pages) Phi Beta Iota: Delusional fluff. The good news is that most of the stuff that is vulnerable to single point of failure interruptions is not all that important if you have a proper strategy that is based on reality and true cost information. What …

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