The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The New Rules Of Engagement: Nine imperatives for our post-9/11 world Statutory rules to authorize preventive detentions; Adoption of the isolation-and-quarantine statute; Establish new laws to govern the use of federal troops (domestically) Major-General Andrew Mackay Says MoD Is ‘Institutionally Incapable’ In Afghanistan “From the top of the MoD through to the Army’s staff colleges, …
Jack Devine is the finest manager we have ever known, and the only one we know of who has never let a case officer miss a deadline without asking why. Former Acting Deputy Director of Operations while appointed as ADDO, former head of Latin America Division, he managed the Afghan Task Force whose outcomes are …
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Connecting Government: Whole of government responses to Australia’s priority challenges The report has defined ‘whole of government’ in the Australian Public Service (APS) as: Whole of government denotes public service agencies working across portfolio boundaries to achieve a shared goal and an integrated government response to particular issues. Approaches can be formal and informal. They …
UPDATE 3: Obama summons intelligence chiefs to White House meeting Comment: This is pathetic. No one now serving in the White House is capable of telling the President the truth–that our $75 billion a year is wasted, that the agencies are suffering from 1950’s mindsets with 1970’s technology and security and legal blinders that are …
Great search that we appreciate very much.this is now an established term with its own Wikipedia page that includes a guide to conferences and other resources, so here we will focus only on the culture of catastrophe and how stupid societies choose to turn otherwise manageable disasters into life-altering catastrophes. There are three sub-sets we …
The American strategist and military reformer Colonel John Boyd argued that nations and groups should shape their domestic policies, foreign policies, and military strategies so that they: pump up one’s own resolve and increase one’s own solidarity, drain away the resolve of one’s adversaries and weaken their internal cohesion, reinforce the commitments of allies to …
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Way cool! First off, the White House is theater. We have no strategy, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) does not know how to manage, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) does not know how to produce intelligence (decision-support) for all who have a “need to know.” Until President Barack Obama, whom we pray …
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