Berto Jongman: Dan Harris on Eroding Human Intelligence Collection in the US Intelligence Community — Reflections on Intelligence Reform by Robert Steele

The Consequences of Eroding Human Intelligence Collection TheCIPHERBrief, November 2, 2016 | Dan Harris The U.S. Intelligence Community’s (IC) clandestine human intelligence (HUMINT) services are experiencing an erosion of their core mission and values, with consequences to our current and future collection capability.   . . .   I believe the issue in the IC is not …

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part III in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Robert David Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the third of three monographs focused on …

Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) — a Nordic Manifesto

This is what I am taking to the Nordics. Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) Robert D. Steele, Earth Intelligence Network Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) is affordable, inter-operable, and scalable to the five billion poor now neglected by industrial-era engineers. Data-driven, a design revolution could enable the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) within …

DefDog: John Hamre Gets It Wrong — and Politico Lets Him Slide — “Electronic Pearl Harbor” is Original to Winn Schwartau

The ‘electronic Pearl Harbor’ Eighteen years ago I was the first to use that term publicly. It was the wrong analogy then. Not anymore. The phrase became a touchstone in the long national argument over cybersecurity, for better or worse. I was not the author of the phrase. That honor goes to a dear friend of …

OpenDemocracy: Robert Steele, American Intelligence and National Defense 2.0

American intelligence and national defense 2.0 Robert David Steele 10 November 2015 An Open Source (Technologies) Agency, far removed from the secret intelligence world, would radically reduce wars and illegal immigration, increase trade and shared prosperity, and convert the USA into a “Smart Nation”. On 06/17/11, I wrote the first installment of National intelligence and …