The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Connected Forces Initiative (latest NATO HQ initiative, should prioritize future ACT work, currently under initial study) After 2014, NATO is expected to shift its emphasis from operational engagement to operational preparedness. This means NATO will need to remain capable of performing its core tasks – described in its Strategic Concept¹ – and of maintaining its …
I have been reflecting on the past twenty years, and the remarkable resistence of the US Intelligence Community, seemingly impervious to all manner of reform recommendations, be they presidential, congressional, or public. Reform is not transformation. This from Dr. Russell Ackoff, a pioneer in systems thinking and reflexive practice: Reformations and transformations are not the …
China-North Korea: Update. China’s Foreign Ministry declined Wednesday, 8 May, to confirm the Bank of China’s closure of the account of the North Korean Foreign Trade Bank. In response to a question at Wednesday’s news conference, Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, “For specifics, please refer it to competent Chinese authorities.” Sources of the Daily NK …
A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …
A Commander Seeks To Chart A New Path For Special Operations By Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker New York Times, May 2, 2013 WASHINGTON – Not long after Adm. William H. McRaven led the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, he was put in charge of the nation’s entire contingent of Special Operations forces, and …
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An important question — the USA no longer does strategic intelligence and it has never done Whole of Government operational or tactical intelligence. The $60B secret world is largely worthless at all four levels of analysis: STRATEGIC: Next Generation near, 100 years our far OPERATIONAL: Whole of Government regional and threat/topic based campaign plans, harmonized …
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Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/2013-Steele NEW: Links to eight prior related briefings (NATO, SOUTHCOM, CENTCOM, Chile, Spain, Denmark, IADB, Washington Academy of Sciences) added. PPT (30 Slides, 2.5MB, Words): 2.7 OVERVIEW ON INTELLIGENCE PPT (70 Slides, 6MB, Words): 2.7 WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENCE Words in Notes format are pro forma. Actual presentations are completely extemporaneous in nature and …
