2009 Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else [Full Text Online for Google Translate]

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Diversity of Voices & Values (Other than USA)

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2012 U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century: 450-Ship Navy, <24 Hours to Anywhere, Peace from the Sea -- Full Text Online

I wrote the original Somali piracy overview for US CENTCOM J-2P in 2005–no one wanted to take on the problem.  A few years later I was told by both USSOCOM and Navy Irregular Warfare–I am not making this up–that the reason they did not take an interest at the time was that it was “not …