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2010/03/082015/11/22

2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability

KINDLE with Active Links Hard Copy: Book’s Amazon Page ($16.93) A massive cultural tsunami is sweeping round the world as the five billion poor acquire Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and the one billion rich realize that the era of Empire Rule Of, By, and For the Few is over. Happily, this is a revolution …

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2010/01/212010/01/21

Journal: Intelligence & Innovation Support to Strategy, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, & Acquisition

Chuck Spinney is still the best “real” engineer in this town–almost everyone else is staggering after fifty years of government-specification cost-plus engineering. Also, as Chuck explores in the piece on Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive we in the “requirements” business are as much to blame–Service connivance with complexity has killed acquisition from both a …

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2010/01/132010/01/13

Reference: COIN Planning & Knowledge

In accordance with our mandate to “help connect the dots” across multiple joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational partners, the COIN Center and SO & SFA proponent offices are redoubling efforts to increase presence and activity on the COIN webpage [link here], COIN blog [link here], COIN Center Facebook fan page [link here] and Battle Command …

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2010/01/122010/01/12

Journal: Yemen, Guns, Tribes, & Deja Vu

Three Guns for Every Person Only Fools Rush Into Yemen By PATRICK COCKBURN January 11, 2010 The mounting crisis in the country only attracted notice when a Nigerian student is revealed to have been “trained” in Yemen by al-Qa’ida to detonate explosives in his underpants on plane heading for Detroit. But this botched attack has …

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2009/12/182010/09/03

Review: Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction (Paperback)

Utterly Brilliant Synthesis, Vital First Step–US Violates Every Single Principle December 18, 2009 United States Institute of Peace This book is a six-star special and will be so rated at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog, where I cluster like non-fictions books in 98 categories, one of which is Stabilization & Reconstruction. At its …

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2009/08/302009/09/21

Worth a Look: Available for Pre-Order at Amazon INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability

From the Amazon Page: Review Constantly committed to truth and honesty [this work] demonstrates his ability to grasp the real issues and to take into account the views and concerns of men of good will from all nations and all cultures. –Admiral Pierre Lacoste, French Navy (Retired), Former Director of Foreign Intelligence (DGSE) Robert Steele …

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2009/08/112009/08/11

Worth a Look: PBI Comments on DNI Strategy & Vision

Phi Beta Iota has begun a review of all publicly-available documents and directives pertaining to the hybrid discipline of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Click on the cover to access both the full document online and the Phi Beta Iota comment. OSINT is a hybrid discipline, unique in that it is both a complete discipline in …

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