Review (Guest): The Man Who Killed Kennedy – The Case Against LBJ

Roger J. Stone Is this the Penultimate CIA hangout position, or just another “Case Closed?”, October 22, 2013 Herbert L. Calhoun This is an interesting theory. In fact it is a slightly more robust and sophisticated off-shoot of the “renegade CIA officers did it” theory. However, the critical element — of linking it to Clint …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back British Foreign Fighters in Syria Democratization of Big Data Ethical Farming Ill-Equipped IT Managers Infrastructure Vulnerabilities Iraq Death Toll Based on Intelligence Lie(s) Modern Honey Traps: BBC Documentary Turkey blows Israel’s cover for Iranian spy ring

Chuck Spinney: How Contemporary War “Reporting” Messes Up Your OODA Loops

The attached article is a very important and informative essay.  Patrick Cockurn describes how the media echo chamber warps the Orientation* of the public, as well as that of a government, to unfolding events in the so-called global war on terror that triggered by 9-11 and the continuously metastasizing instabilities the GWOT is unleashing.  I regard …

Review: Pakistan on the Brink–The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

Ahmed Rashid REF A — 12 Years of Lessons Learned in Time for 2014, October 13, 2013 This is an extraordinary book that required a great deal of time, not in the reading, but in the reflection. This will be a longer review than usual, even for me, because this book contains all of the …

Karl W. Eikenberry: The Limits of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan — The Other Side of COIN

 The Limits of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan The Other Side of the COIN Foreign Affairs, September-October 2013 (General and Ambassador) Karl W. Eikenberry Since 9/11, two consecutive U.S. administrations have labored mightily to help Afghanistan create a state inhospitable to terrorist organizations with transnational aspirations and capabilities. The goal has been clear enough, but its …