Journal: Joe Mazzafro, USN (Ret), on IC Performance

How Should We Measure Intelligence Community Performance?, by Joseph Mazzafro. As the Congress and the DC dignitary debate if health care is affordable given the nation’s first trillion dollar annual debit incursion, I am wondering where the money would come from should the United States need to defend its national interests against another Al Qaeda …

Search: education knowledge of the four quadrant

Simple searches work best on WordPress.  Spelling and plural versus singular do matter. Four quadrants search produces (with better human in the loop sort for relevance: Graphic: Four Quadrants J-2 High Cell SMS Low Graphic: The Four Quadrants of Knowledge Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Nova Spivak Graphic: OSINT and Full-Spectrum HUMINT (Updated) Search: management …

Search: oss press cammaert

Generally Word Press search, which updates constantly, is much better with simpler searches.  Searching only for cammaert produces the following hits that we have resorted in relative order of value (Wrod Press delivers in reverse chronological order).  General Patrick Cammaert, RN NL (Ret) is the best qualified person we know to be the first Assistant-Secretary …

Journal: DoD Mind-Set Time Lags Most Fascinating

Pentagon Shifts Its Strategy To Small-Scale Warfare By August Cole and Yochi J. Dreazen Wall Street Journal  January 30, 2010  Pg. 4 The shift in strategy sets up potential conflicts with defense contractors and powerful lawmakers uneasy with the Pentagon’s growing focus on smaller-scale, guerilla warfare. In particular, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has come to …

Journal: MILNET Selected Headlines 28 Jan 10

Capabilities Of U.S. Intelligence Agencies Questioned Congressional critics have singled out the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), established as part of a sweeping intelligence overhaul after the September 11 attacks. “I do not (have), nor do I believe the DNI as currently constructed has, all of …

Search: smart nation intelligence reform electoral reform national security reform

Lovely to see a search like this.  Here are the core references and then a comment and then a number of other references, but the reality is that this entire website is about creating a smart nation, and world brain, and four reforms: electoral, intelligence, governance, and national security. Afterthought:  all the references from the …