The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How to Get Better At Predicting the Future Could human and machine forecasters work together to increase the intelligence agencies’ foresight? By Alexis C. Madrigal Atlantic, 11 December 2012 We would like to know what the future is going to be like, so we can prepare for it. I’m not talking about building a time …
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Citation: Robert David STEELE Vivas, “The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Concepts & Doctrine? Implications for Human & Open Source Intelligence,” Phi Beta Iota Public Intelligence Blog (12 December 2012). For Part II See: 2012 Robert Steele: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Contextual Trust for Sources & Methods UPDATE 16 Dec 2012: …
NOTE: This is the final report with new comments. Comments were made on the earlier elements of this report on year ago. Robert Steele: Global Trends 2030 – Gaps + RECAP Best External Snapshot: 2012-12-10 Nicole Gaouette, Four ‘Megatrends’ Reshaping the World: U.S. Intelligence (BloombergBusinessweek) New technologies, dwindling resources and explosive population growth in the …
As long as the strategy of “war on terrorism” remains the same, it’s against the interests of the Pentagon to admit their strategy isn’t working. In theory that could embolden the enemy. But let’s look at two sides of that. The enemy seems to know better than we do how futile our strategy is in …
Better Spies, Not More By Max Boot Los Angeles Times, December 6, 2012, Pg. 19 The Defense Intelligence Agency is planning to dramatically expand the ranks of its covert “collectors” — a.k.a. case officers or, more popularly, spies. It has 500 or so and hopes to double that number. There is nothing inherently wrong with …
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THE U.S. NAVY: TROUBLED WATERS By Winslow Wheeler Time, Dec. 3-5, 2012 Part 1: If more money buys a smaller fleet, what does less money buy? Part 2: More than the Navy’s numbers could be shrinking Part 3: Is the fleet steaming forward or backward? All three articles below the line.
Inside the Ring: Ideological war on terror needed Bill Gertz Washington Times, 14 November 2012 The U.S. military made impressive gains on the battlefield and covertly in countering Islamist terrorists since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But the military and government at large so far have failed to strike the religiously motivated ideology behind al …
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