Review: The Race for What’s Left – The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources

Michael Klare 4.0 out of 5 stars All the Negatives, None of the Positives,October 22, 2012 I know and admire Professor Michael Klare and have given his earlier books such as his first blockbuster, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict With a New Introduction by the Author rave reviews. This book is valuable …

Worth a Look / Listen: When China Rules the World (Book, Audio Lecture)

Reed Business Information: A convincing economic, political and cultural analysis of waning Western dominance and the rise of China and a new paradigm of modernity. Jacques (The Politics of Thatcherism) takes the pulse of the nation poised to become, by virtue of its scale and staggering rate of growth, the biggest market in the world. …

Review: Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society

William Sims Bainbridge (Editor) and Mihail C. Roco 5.0 out of 5 stars Ahead of Its Time, Still a Major Contribution, Needs a Second Volume, October 13, 2012 This is a truly extraordinary book, one I stumbled across as I was browsing the web for “the right stuff.” Whereas most authors and endeavors persist in …

Search: • most but not all of the information needed for strategic reflections comes from open source intelligence.

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 …

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हिंदी का उपयोग कर गूगल दूसरे स्तंभ के शीर्ष पर अनुवाद करने के लिए अनुवाद. India is not a “Muslim” country only because it is the most complex country on the planet.  India has the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and before Pakistan.  Nigeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey are the …