Journal: Ivory Tower Musings on Intelligence-Sharing

Why intelligence-sharing can’t always make us safer By Jennifer Sims and Bob Gallucci Friday, January 8, 2010; A19 Phi Beta Iota: This Op-Ed is stunningly irrelevant to the problem at hand: a secret intelligence community that over-emphasizes cash inputs and secret remote collection, and simultaneously fails to exploit machine-speed all-source geospatially and time tagged processing, …

Event: 10-11 Mar 2010 Washington, D.C. Ethics of Intelligence

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN International Intelligence Ethics Association (IIEA) and Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies present the 5th International Conference on the Ethics of National Security Intelligence March 11-12, 2010 — Conference and Hotel Registration: http://scs.georgetown.edu/ethics — Conference Questions: conference2010@intelligence-ethics.org Keynote Speakers: Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient 1997 John Inglis. Deputy Director, National Security Agency …

Reference: IO Newsletter Vol 10 No 5

Articles in this issue 1.       Air Force Cyber-security Unit Prepares Operations 2.       It’s Like Slate for Terrorists 3.       Anatomy of a Cyber-Espionage Attack, likely by the Chinese Military 4.       Military leaders accelerate C4ISR integration 5.       Cold war enemies Russia and China launch a cyber attack every day 6.       New report says ‘cyber warfare’ has become …

Journal: Cyber-War, Cyber-Peace, Cyber-Scam

Questions stall effort to protect Pentagon network WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s plan to set up a command to defend its global network of computer systems has been slowed by congressional questions about its mission and possible privacy concerns, according to officials familiar with the plan. Resolving questions about the command’s mission are central not only …

Journal: Yemen–Opening A New “Front” in the Long War

Nicht Schwerpunkt as a Prescription for Defeat by a 1000 Cuts Recent events like the Fort Hood Massacre and the bungled attempt to fire bomb the airliner bound for Detroit have focused attention on and encouraged our escalating intervention in Yemen, which has been taking place quietly, as if Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan were not …

IO Newsletter Volume 10 Number 4

Articles in this issue 1.         How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade 2.         Civilization’s High Stakes Cyber-Struggle: Q&A Gen. Wesley Clark (ret.) 3.         Academy Explores Expanding Cyberwarfare Training 4.         Directive Number 9 5.         YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer 6.         Air Force ISR, EW …