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David Brin: Comments on 2012 PREPRINT The Craft of Intelligence 1.52

2012 PREPRINT FOR COMMENT: The Craft of Intelligence A few thoughts: 1) You should make clear the difference between three time domains.  in the short and immediate term, members of the Professional Protector Caste (PPC) have many and diverse needs for tactical secrecy, from police stake-outs of criminals to confidential de-briefings of defectors, to clandestine …

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Yoda: When Intelligence Loses It’s Integrity, It Is Not Intelligence

Peak Intel: How So-Called Strategic Intelligence Actually Makes Us Dumber An industry that once told hard truths to corporate and government clients now mostly just tells them what they want to hear, making it harder for us all to adapt to a changing world — and that’s why I’m leaving it. Eric Garland The Atlantic, …

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Mini-Me: US Dollar Out, Yuan, System D, and Open Money In + Meta-RECAP

BRICS Move To Replace Dollar With “Super-Sovereign” Global Currency Alexander Higgins, Contributor Activist Post, 28 March 2012 As China is expected to rise to the status of a financial superpower within the next 8 years and eclipse the US economy by 2020, Africa becomes center stage in the greatest currency war the world has seen …

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Search: treverton intelligence tribe policy

Greg Treverton was a brilliant conceptualizer of the competing influences on policymakers, and also a major voice in the original discussion of tribes in relation to intelligence focused on the intelligence production tribe and the political consumer tribe. Graphic: Competing Influences on the Policymaker (Treverton) This was a contributing foundation for Robert Steele’s conceptualization–with Alvin …

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Berto Jongman: Australian Intelligence Buying Cyber-Bugs

Australian spies buying computer bugs: sources Cynthia Karena Sydney Morning Herald, 8 March 2012 Cyber criminals are not the only ones buying software flaws, say sources. The  Australian government is buying computer security weaknesses found by hackers before they are sold on the black market, as part of its defence strategy, claim those at the …

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