The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Overall Strategy Is Needed U.S. can’t prevail with piecemeal approaches By Lawrence J. Korb, Sean Duggan and Laura Conley When President Obama announced his decision to deploy 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, he presented a clear argument for why he believes U.S. national security is threatened by violence and extremism in that country and in …
The Oxymoronic Concept of ‘NATO Intelligence’ In 2008, a FOIA request resulted in the release of a (redacted) version of a 1984 CIA article: NATO Intelligence: A Contradiction in Terms. The report is pretty scathing: “Since its inception, NATO has essentially opted out of the intelligence business. The command structure is almost totally innocent of any …
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Well-Intentioned, Disconnected, Over-Priced, Wrong Focus December 11, 2009 Selma Tekir While encouraging from a multinational point of view, this offering is so disconnected from the twenty one years of effort by thousands of other multinational pioneers, and so terribly over-priced (84 pages for $54? Get real) that we must caution potential purchasers.For a review of …
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A Strategic Analytic Model is the non-negotiable first step in creating Strategic Intelligence, and cascades downto also enable Operational, Tactical, and Technical Intelligence. The most relevant strategic analytic model to our purposes is the one inspired by the United Nations High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change. Their report, A More Secure World–Our Shared …
This concept first developed as an “information continuum” from described in 1992 as being from schoolhouse to White House, and then in 1993 covering nine elements as shown below. From there, for General Peter Schoomaker at USSOCOM, it was described as eight segments, treating the Internet as a separate entity.
This entire web site is about intelligence reform, at three levels; Level I: Unscrew the secret world, which spends $75B a year on the 10-20% it can steal (of which it only processes 1-6%, ultimately producing no more than 4% of what the President needs to know, and virtually nothing for anyone else. Level II: …
COVER STORY: The Cyberwar Plan It’s not just a defensive game; cyber-security includes attack plans too, and the U.S. has already used some of them successfully. by Shane Harris Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 14 tech firms form cybersecurity alliance for government Lockheed Martin, top suppliers launch initiative for government market By Wyatt Kash Nov 12, …
