1993 Corporate Role in National Competitiveness: Smart People + Good Tools + Information = Profit (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Corporate Role in National Competitiveness: Smart People + Good Tools + Information = Profit What is the Secretary of Labor trying to tell us that the Director of Central Intelligence needs to help his staff to understand? Robert David Steele – Vivas Proceedings, Society of Photo-Optical Engineers (Spring 1994) Original As Published (OSS ’93) Full …

1993 Corporate Role in National Competitiveness: Smart People + Good Tools + Information = Profit

This was written for and disseminated within OSS ’93.  It subsrequently was printed in the membership publication Society of Photo-Optical Engineers (Spring 1994). Although pioneers like Herman Daly had already outlined Ecological Economics, and Paul Hawkin and others would eventually define “true cost” metrics that prohibit the externalization of costs to the public, this piece …

Answers on OSINT for India 36: Where Should the Open Source Agency Reside within a National Security Structure?

Sir, You have agreed with BGen James Cox, RN CA, with respect to the need for a separate Open Source Agency equivalent to the separate agencies for signals, imagery, and human intelligence. Given the nature of this agency as a direct support element to decision-makers including the national legislature and domestic customers including governors and …

Martin Geddes: Web 3.0 Not – The Inconvenience of “Termination for Convenience” (or Ideological Bias or Teen-Age Angst or Deep State Direction)

The inconvenience of “termination for convenience” I wish to highlight a serious ethical and practical issue we all face when using cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) applications — especially for “controversial” writing and audio/video content. It is a summary of what I have learned after I have been “deplatformed” suddenly by Medium in March …

John Peterson: An Explanation of What Happened to Fox News

An email from unknown originator, worthy of reflection. Subject: An explanation of what happened to Fox News If you regularly watch Fox News and have been noticing something feels “off” with their election coverage, you’re not wrong. Around a year ago, conservative political wonks turned off Fox News for good. The reason why has to …

Robert Steele @ Amazon: REINVENTING NATIONAL SECURITY — Grand Strategy, Global Reality, and the U.S. Army — Everything Our President Is Not Being Told

This book brings together three monographs on grand strategy, global reality, and re-inventing the U.S. Army as well as the rest of the Department of Defense — and in passing addressing needed changes in diplomacy, development, and intelligence, all of which are just as broken as the military. The U.S. military today is 50% waste, …