Review: Looking For Trouble–Adventures in a Broken World
What Humans Knew in 1990’s That Secret Mandarins Refused to Hear, June 28, 2008
Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Joseph Markowitz
PLATINUM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Dr. Joseph Markowitz Dr. Joseph Markowitz is without question the most qualified Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) pioneer in the ranks of those presently in or retired from U.S. government service. As the only real chief of the Community Open Source Program Office (COSPO) he tried valiently to nurture a program being systematically …
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Review: Sway–The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Super Book, Fast Read, Relevant to Participatory Democracy, June 3, 2008
Memorandum: $2 Billion Obligation Plan Centered on Defense, for a New Open Source Agency
This is the budget created to support Col Vincent Stewart, USMC, then the action officer for surveying Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) reequirements and capabilities across the Department of Defense (DoD). This amount–not necessarily these specific priorities–was offered to the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), which continues to have the only full-spectrum OSINT capability in the …
Review: Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations–a New Model In the Making
5 for Substance, Zero for Pricing, June 1, 2008
Review: Complex Adaptive Systems–An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Best in Class, Very Technical, Saluting and Moving On, May 31, 2008
Review: Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Instead of Can You Explain It, Can You Build It?, May 31, 2008
