The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
THE MOMENTOUS LEAP Spiral Dynamics in Action: Deciphering the Master Code in the Age of Complexity, Collaboration and Emergence. A Functional, Integral Pathway to a Sustainable Future 13th Annual SDi Confab September 6-9, 2012 Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
Anonymous Internet / UnderNet Beyond Investigators Cost of Cybercrime (PDF) Cybercrime and Terror Cyber Dissidents Handbook Declassifying CT Ops in Yemen and Somalia – No Mention of Drones Has the Drug Industry’s Grip On Health Care Become a Pharmageddon Mexican Cartels – How They Make Their Billions Obama Report on Global Deathcraft Sun’s Eruption on …
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Note the contradiction between the planned personnel cuts and the comments on the urgency of keeping the volunteer force intact and coherent. The Battle For The Military’s Future Walter Pincus The Washington Post, 13 June 2012 “The face of war, the face of how we do business, is changing.” That’s retired Marine Corps Gen. James …
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1999 Leverage_Points Donella Meadows Tip of the Hat to Venessa Miemis! Below the Line: 12 Intervention Points in Ascending Order of Effectiveness
This has been true since Vietnam (from my personal experience) and for all the money and technology that has been thrown at the IC, the return is dismal at best, criminal at worst….see my previous identifying your tribal summary as better than 99% of the intel I saw in Afghanistan. War Study: Troops Had Bad …
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Attached is a really first rate assessment of the real benefits and costs of the American infatuation with drone warfare. The writer, Patrick Cockburn, is one of the very best reporters now covering the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. Chuck Spinney Cap Ferat, France America is deluded by its drone-warfare propaganda World View: …
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Henry Crumpton 4.0 out of 5 stars As Good as It Gets From an Approved Insider,June 9, 2012 I write this as a former clandestine case officer who spent 30 years across all of the functions of intelligence less MASINT, and went on to write, edit, and publish nine non-fiction books on the craft of …
