The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Ref A: 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) Ref B: 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Operational) Ref C:2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings Ref D: 2008 IJIC 21/3 The Open Source Program: Missing in Action Ref E: 2006 IJIC 19/1 Intelligence Affairs: Evolution, Revolution, or Reactionary Collapse?” See also:
Timely and pathbreaking, Securing the Peace is the first book to explore the complete spectrum of civil war terminations, including negotiated settlements, military victories by governments and rebels, and stalemates and ceasefires. Examining the outcomes of all civil war terminations since 1940, Monica Toft develops a general theory of postwar stability, showing how third-party guarantees …
Lovely to see a search like this. Here are the core references and then a comment and then a number of other references, but the reality is that this entire website is about creating a smart nation, and world brain, and four reforms: electoral, intelligence, governance, and national security. Afterthought: all the references from the …
Chuck Spinney is still the best “real” engineer in this town–almost everyone else is staggering after fifty years of government-specification cost-plus engineering. Also, as Chuck explores in the piece on Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive we in the “requirements” business are as much to blame–Service connivance with complexity has killed acquisition from both a …
Google Maps updates with new Haiti pics: Hours-old satellite images show destruction Google has released a new KML overlay — tech speak for map layer — that includes fresh images of Port-au-Prince. According to GeoEye , the satellite imagery company that provided the photos, they were taken at 10:30 a.m. yesterday from a satellite 423 …
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AP: Injured Haitians plead for help after quake Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake hit the poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years crushed thousands of structures, from humble shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped. Destroyed …
An Utterly Superb Intellectual Contribution–a Major New Reference January 10, 2010 David Cortright This book is a gift to humanity, a foundational reference of such extraorindary value that I earnestly believe it should be required reading for every single liberal arts program in the world, and used as a core book in all graduate international …
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