Robert Steele: US Secret Intelligence Next Steps

Responding to a media request for comment on Stephen Aftergood’s post, Intelligence Community Anticipates Budget Cuts: “The US secret intelligence community is long overdue for a draconian reduction of its budget from the $80-90 billion a year today that it wastes on contractors producing vaporware, to something closer to the $20 billion a year that …

John Robb: Occupy Wall Street – The Theory (An Open Source Insurgency By-Passing the US Government)

OCCUPY WALL STREET (the theory) Really simple: Occupy Wall Street is an open source protest. This type of protest has been very effective over the last year in toppling regimes in north Africa. It’s proving relatively successful in the US too. Open source protest is an organizational technique. Probably the only organizational technique that can …

Review (Guest): Fixing the Facts – National Security and the Politics of Intelligence

Joshua Rovner 5.0 out of 5 stars It Takes Two: Strategic Intelligence and National Security Policy, September 30, 2011 By Retired Reader (New Mexico) – See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) In the U.S., the relationship between strategic intelligence and the formulation of national security policies has been to say the least complex and …

Review: Lines of Fire – A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security

Ralph Peters 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Star Epilogue, the Capstone Work, September 26, 2011 I have been a fan of Ralph Peters for over fifteen years now, going back to the early 1990’s when the US Marine Corps was trying to get the Secretary of Defense (then Dick Cheney) to focus on most …