SOUTHCOM Week in Review Ending 21 July 2009

Hot Topics AR:  Britains warnings for travelers who want to visit Argentina: 07/16/09 BR:  RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Controversy Surrounds Army Search for Guerrilla Remains 07/17/09 CL:  Mapuche: No Effective Autonomy Without Political Will 07/17/09 CO:  Colombia: rebels funded Ecuador leaders election 07/17/09 CO:  Latin America: Washington, Bogota on Verge of Deal to Make …07/17/09 CO:  New Anti-Ecuador …

AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 20 July 2009

Hot Topics BW: Nationality for sale 07/18/09 CG: Congo-Kinshasa: An Action Plan to End the Worlds Deadliest War 07/16/09 ER: The Existential Threat to the Nation 07/19/09 KE: War is Boring: Kenya Allegedly Funneling Arms to Volatile South Sudan 07/15/09 LR: Charles Taylor: Preacher, Warlord, President 07/17/09 NG: Jihadis Identify US Plots against China in …

The Contested Commons

Michele Flournoy and Shawn Brimley U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings July 2009 Vol. 135/7/1,277 Two officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense look at a changing and challenging world and what it means for the future of American power. The world is undergoing a profound and lasting shift in the relative balance of power …

2009 The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer the World (Faculty of Advanced Engineering University of British Columbia March 2009)

Handouts (Their Site) PPT (Our Site): 2009 UBC The Ultimate Hack Slides 2.0 FINAL, with Notes) With a tip of the hat the University of British Columbia and Professor John Meech of the Faculty of Advanced Engineering, this is the latest briefing.  As with most of my briefings, planned words for brevity can be found …