Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part I in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Updated November 15, 2016 Robert Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the first of three monographs focused …

Robert Steele: Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0

Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0 Can Open Source Evolutionary Cybernetics Leverage Distributed Human Intelligence While Advancing Artificial Intelligence? DOC (16 Pages): 20151018 Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0 DOC (3 Pages): D3 Innovation Memorandum 2.1 (to VP, SecState, SecDef, D/OMB, A/USAID delivered 14 October 2015) SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-ACI2 ABSTRACT The information and intelligence (decision-support) domains have lost their …

Steve Aftergood: Intelligence Lessons from Fort Hood — Information Systems (and Legal) Still Stink

INTELLIGENCE LESSONS FROM THE 2009 FT HOOD SHOOTING In 2010, then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair convened a panel to review the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting committed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan and the Christmas Day bombing attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Northwest Flight 253. A redacted version of the resulting panel …

Berto Jongman: IMF – Debt Crisis Looms

$3 trillion corporate credit crunch looms as debtors face day of reckoning, says IMF A poisonous “triad” of global risks is pushing the world to the brink of a new financial crisis, says stark IMF report “Three percent of global output is at stake”.

Eagle: FBI Mass Murder Database — Incomplete? Truth Teller on Sandy Hook and Aurora? Or Both?

In FBI murder data, mass killings often go missing When 26 teachers, students and administrators were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School, it made national news for weeks. But there was one place 2012’s largest mass killing was never mentioned: the FBI database that tracks all U.S. homicides. And that isn’t the only …

Stephen E. Arnold: Carly Fiorina’s Big Bust — Barklays Bank Fraud? Bad Judgment? How Autonomy Gored HP and Its CEO

Hewlett Packard Autonomy: Bank Issues Alleged “The Price of Silence on Wall Street” provides a bit of information about the role of intermediaries in the HP deal for Autonomy. I find it difficult to figure out if the bank was doing its normal sales job for a juicy deal or if the bank was doing …