The Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up
Superb Overview, A Bright Light Into the Future, April 22, 2008
Review: Participatory Budgeting (Public Sector Governance)
The Best Book on the Topic, with a CD-ROM, Totally Rich, April 15, 2008
Review: Losing the Golden Hour–An Insider’s View of Iraq’s Reconstruction
Unusual Primary Source on Stabilization & Reconstruction, April 14, 2008
Graphic: OSINT Two Views
The view on the left is a view from one lacking the deep broad experience to challenge the secret mandarins. It is a subservient position that is both detrimental to the whole of the secret world, and incompatible with external multinational operations. OSINT is a “hybrid” discipline that is simultaneously: 1. A full-fledged discipline in …
Graphic: OSINT Cell
This was the basic OSINT cell recommended to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 1990. We still need to get to where every Agency and every major Command and every partner across each of the other seven tribes of intelligence has such a cell, and they are all linked in a global Open Source Information …
Review: War and Decision–Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Articulate Vindictive Oblivious but Ultimately Necessary Reading, April 11, 2008
Review: The Next Catastrophe–Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
Superb, Crystal-Clear, Speaks Truth to Power, April 3, 2008
