The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Army Times article, second below, reports what the beginning of what I expect will be a major decline in functionality of Army computer systems. While some sort of institutional response to the alleged Wikileaks traitor, Specialist Bradley Manning, is appropriate, I don’t think this is it. This is a simplistic approach, the sort of thing …
China-Iran: China’s Railways Minister Liu Zhijun will visit Tehran on 12 September to sign a contract between Iran and a Chinese company to build a $2 billion rail link to Iran, according to Iranian Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani. Transport ministers from Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran are expected to gather in Dushanbe in October to firm …
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Iraq: Time to Ring the Bell by Howard P. Hart 27 August 2010 Many years ago I attended a series of Headquarters briefings for out-going CIA Chiefs of Station. Our main speaker was Richard Helms, then the Agency’s Director and one of the lions of American foreign policy in the 1960’s and 70’s. A man …
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Two articles, one each from Wash Post and NYT follow. Both focus on finance as it relates to national security. IMHO, both are probably more true than not. Also IMHO, the two parties principally responsible are Donald Rumsfeld and L. Paul Bremer. Had those two, particularly Rumsfeld, not filled the Coalition Provisional Authority with ideologues, …
A few thoughts: 1) Information-sharing and sense-making is “root” for multinational operations. 2) Education, intelligence, and research must all be open and multinational in nature. 3) Peaceful preventive measures rooted in open education and intelligence are the foundation. 4) Precision covert and clandestine multinational operations are the intermediate capability. 5) Hybrid operations by all eight …
How Can a Democracy Solve Tough Problems? Joe Klein Thursday, 2 September 2010 TIME Magazine But what if there were a machine, a magical contraption that could take the process of making tough decisions in a democracy, shake it up, dramatize it and make it both credible and conclusive? As it happens, the ancient Athenians …
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Seeking Solutions for Afghanistan: A Report on the Abu Dhabi Process DOI: 31 August 2010 NEW BOOK: Some analysts and policy makers see these organizations as positive forces encouraging integration. Others cast them as modern-day Trojan horses, feigning moderation while radicalizing Western Muslims. Lorenzo Vidino brokers a third, more informed view. DOI: 1 September 2010 …
