Marcus Aurelius: CIA Flogs on Campus + RECAP

CIA runs all-source analytic competition for universities — neither the Open Source Center nor Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) are anywhere to be found. Deja vu? Covert Operation WC Wins High Honors at CIA Tri-State Intelligence Simulation Phi Beta Iota:  This was probably a variation of the superb Mid-Career Course (CIA’s mini-war college) analytic exercise but …

John Steiner: Declaration of Occupation of NYC + Revolution USA RECAP

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on september 29, 2011As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all …

Review: Lines of Fire – A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security

Ralph Peters 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Star Epilogue, the Capstone Work, September 26, 2011 I have been a fan of Ralph Peters for over fifteen years now, going back to the early 1990’s when the US Marine Corps was trying to get the Secretary of Defense (then Dick Cheney) to focus on most …

Berto Jongman: Forecasting Large-Scale Human Behavior — and Four Flaws in the Concept

Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space Kalev Leetaru First Monday, Volume 16, Number 9 – 5 September 2011 Abstract News is increasingly being produced and consumed online, supplanting print and broadcast to represent nearly half of the news monitored across the world today by Western intelligence agencies. …