The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Although the search works, it’s such an important line of inquiry that we’ve decided to create this direct post. Thank you for seeking this. Credit first: Edward N. Luttwak’s brilliant Strategy–The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition was the first effort to not just distinguish between the four levels of analysis (strategic, …
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Well-Intentioned, Disconnected, Over-Priced, Wrong Focus December 11, 2009 Selma Tekir While encouraging from a multinational point of view, this offering is so disconnected from the twenty one years of effort by thousands of other multinational pioneers, and so terribly over-priced (84 pages for $54? Get real) that we must caution potential purchasers.For a review of …
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Too Expensive But Two Top People Cannot Be Ignored, July 5, 2008
Disappointing, Some Value, October 22, 2008
For the convenience of the authors and readers, the entire book is provided here, and the individual chapters are also provided for ease of isolation, exploitation, and sharing, with the kind permission of co-sponsor and co-editor Carol Dumaine, one of the visionary leaders in the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Carmen Median retired–her brilliance and innovative spirit surfaced at the top too late in the game. She is, however, like General Peter Schoomaker, USA (Ret), one of those bright lights that in our view should be brought back in to manage a global multinational information sharing and sense-making grid. She is not forgotten, and we …
When Jan Herring, former National Intelligence Office (NIO) for Science & Technology, and co-founder of the Academy of Comptetitive Intelligence, wants an information broker as a partner for a complex assignment, Ms. Bonnie Hohhof is who he turns to. Although dated, the below presentation is a model for what analysts should be thinking about as …
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