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

Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else How Obama Can Create a Smart Nation and a Prosperous World at Peace By ROBERT DAVID STEELE VIVAS Today’s secret intelligence community costs the U.S. taxpayer over $65 billion a year, and yet, according to General Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret), provides less than 4% of the decision support needed …

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Peace

Peace 2003 PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future Review DVD: Joyeux Noel (Widescreen) Review DVD: Peace One Day (2003) Review DVD: Peaceful Warrior Review DVD: The Peace! DVD (2004) Review: Burundi on the Brink 1993-95–A UN Special Envoy Reflects on Preventive Diplomacy Review: Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World Review: Intelligence for …

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Collective Intelligence

Collective Intelligence 2008 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace Review: An Army of Davids–How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths (Hardcover) Review: Collective Intelligence–Creating a Prosperous World at Peace Review: Collective Intelligence–Mankind’s Emerging World in Cyberspace Review: Crashing the Gate–Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise …

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Marshall Auerback

Marshall Auerback has 27 years of experience in the investment management business, serving as a global portfolio strategist for RAB Capital Plc, a UK-based fund management group with $2 billion under management, since 2003. He is also co-manager of the RAB Gold Fund. He serves as an economic consultant to PIMCO, the world’s largest bond …

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 …

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Douglas Engelbart

Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart, Founder Emeritus of the Doug Engelbart Institute*, has an unparalleled track record in predicting, designing, and implementing the future of organizational computing. From his early vision of turning organizations into augmented knowledge workshops, he went on to pioneer what is now known as collaborative hypermedia, knowledge management, community networking, and organizational …