The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
(1) This **could** be DoD’s near-term future; (2) honestly have not heard anything bad about her; (3) my principal concern is that she has no personal military experience, which I personally think should be mandatory for any SECDEF. Chuck Spinney Sends: Truely nuts. The article is a puff piece about an incompetent fraud who happens …
Sooner than you thought? I would also suggest that Karzai is on shaky ground unless he figures out a way to get out of his Parliament crisis…..the Pashtu do not go for technology the way the Hazara and Tajiks do…… Waves of Unrest Spread to Yemen, Shaking a Region Thousands of protesters on Thursday took …
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Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is not dead–it just does not exist within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the Department of Defense (DoD). “Butts in Seats,” bureaucracy, political flag officers with no sense of responsibility for the commonwealth, this is our lot today. Rule 1: HUMINT is not an organization. It is a state of mind …
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From Virtual Secretary of Defense Purpose The purpose of this memorandum is to establish priorities for my strategic objectives through 2012 and pending the concurrence of a new president with a proper staff, 2020. There is no such thing as strategic guidance for one year. This document informs without directing anyone. Intent My intent is …
Phi Beta Iota: The US Government continues to be chaotic in part because its civilian leaders simply do not know what they do not know. They have the best of intentions, but have been promoted into a new world far removed from the world imprinted on them in their formative years. There are four ways …
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Handbooks (52) Analysis (8) C4/JOE/Software (5) HUMINT (10) Law Enforcement (8) Military (16) OSINT Generic (15) Stabilization (18) Threats/Topical (10) UN/NGO (15) The latest most forward-leaning is the new monograph: Human Intelligence: All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (Strategic Studies Institute, June 2010)
CIA mines ‘rich’ content from blogs 11:01 p.m., Tuesday, April 18, 2006 President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said. The new Open Source Center (OSC) at CIA headquarters recently stepped up data collection and analysis …
