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2015/09/292015/09/29

Review: Big Data, Little Data, No Data – Scholarship in the Networked World

Christine L. Borgman 5 Stars Major Contribution with Some Oversights This book is extremely well-developed and and a major contribution, not least because it it one of the best explorations of information ecologies that are vastly more intricate and cover vastly more time, energy, and locational space, than most realize. It was recommended to me …

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2015/09/282015/09/26

Michael Kearns: Absent US Change, Nuclear War Likely

‘Nuclear war our likely future’: Russia & China won’t accept US hegemony, Reagan official warns Key quote: … the “price of world peace is the world’s acceptance of Washington’s hegemony.”

2015/09/282015/09/28

Berto Jongman: Yuri Totrov’s Rules for Outing US Spies

How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field? Paranoid CIA heads blamed Soviet moles, but the real reason for the repeated disasters was much simpler “Totrov Rules” and comment below the line.

2015/09/282015/09/27

Berto Jongman: Russian Nonlinear War (“Gerasimov Doctrine”) — While US in Stuck in One Size Fits All Big War

Grading Gerasimov: Evaluating Russian Nonlinear War Through Modern Chinese Doctrine Victor R. Morris in Small Wars Journal, 17 September 2015 Unrestricted war is a war that surpasses all boundaries and restrictions. It takes nonmilitary forms and military forms and creates a war on many fronts. It is the war of the future. -Colonel Qiao Liang …

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2015/09/272015/09/25

Worth a Look: National Security & Double Government

Michael J. Glennon Why has U.S. security policy scarcely changed from the Bush to the Obama administration? National Security and Double Government offers a disquieting answer. Michael J. Glennon challenges the myth that U.S. security policy is still forged by America’s visible, “Madisonian institutions”–the President, Congress, and the courts. Their roles, he argues, have become …

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2015/09/262015/09/24

Steve Aftergood: CIA Cover-Up on Torture + CIA Torture RECAP

CIA Classification Practices Challenged The Central Intelligence Agency has improperly classified and withheld from release at least five categories of information related to its post-9/11 rendition, detention and interrogation program, according to a detailed complaint filed by Openthegovernment.org with the Information Security Oversight Office.

2015/09/252015/09/24

Graham Allison: War with China Too Possible

The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed. EXTRACT The preeminent geostrategic challenge of this era is not violent Islamic extremists or a resurgent Russia. It is the impact of China’s …

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