Worth A Look: MobileIron C4I in the Cloud

Network World Names MobileIron a Top 10 Start-up to Watch (Company Press Release) MobileIron’s Innovative Solution for Smartphone Management Drives Selection Smartphone usage in the enterprise continues to grow rapidly. Forrester Research recently released data showing that 78 percent of information workers across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. either already use or would like …

Journal: Underpants Bomber Shines Light on Naked USG–Without Four Reforms, USA Locked in Place

UPDATE 3:  Obama summons intelligence chiefs to White House meeting Comment: This is pathetic. No one now serving in the White House is capable of telling the President the truth–that our $75 billion a year is wasted, that the agencies are suffering from 1950’s mindsets with 1970’s technology and security and legal blinders that are …

Journal: Strong Signals–Las Vegas as Next 9/11

Monday, December 28, 2009 SPOOK’S JOURNAL Nine of the ten largest hotels in the world are in Las Vegas. Four of them share one intersection: Las Vegas Boulevard (The Strip) and Tropicana Avenue. Together, these four corners comprise 12,953 rooms, most of which enjoy high occupancy year-round and are often full. Figure 25,000 people huddled …

Review: A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq (Yale Library of Military History) (Hardcover)

Brilliant but Narrow, Simplifies A Bridge Too Far December 19, 2009 Mark Moyar EDIT of 21 Feb 2010:  A colleague in COINSOC has pointed out that I missed one key aspect of this book and I hasten to add it: “Moyar’s point that we are applying peacetime personnel policies by putting people in place based …

Journal: Over 100 “Sensitive But Unclassified” Protocols

Presidential Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information Releases Report and Recommendations Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 15, 2009 The Presidential Interagency Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), led by Attorney General Holder and Secretary Napolitano, today released a report recommending a single, standardized framework for marking, safeguarding …

Journal: Weak Signals–Obama’s Czars

Byrd Calls Obama’s Czars Dangerous Byrd: Gives President too much power…. Obama’s Czars Breed Chain-of-Command Confusion Bloomberg: Placing them above Cabinet…. Glenn Beck’s List of Obama’s Czars 32 of them, most professional listing with most detail Free Market Mojo Who are Obama’s czars? 27 of them, hot links from each name to more information Politico’s List …